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Chapter 157 – Must-See Sports In Song Dynasty (6.6K)

Chapter 157 Must-see sports in Song Dynasty (6.6K)

After the comet disappeared.

The people at the scene continued to observe the sky.

This kind of picture, which has never been seen in ancient China, really made everyone extremely interested.

Even Lao Li, Wang Hou, Zhang Shuye and others couldn’t help leaning forward to look at the stars several times.

Of course.

While gaining knowledge, there are also cases of broken concepts.

Especially Xiao Li.

I don’t know after tonight.

Will this well-known Layman Yi’an in the later generations write “The good fortune may be intentional, so teach Mingyue Linglong?” ’ “Fisherman’s Pride”.

or ‘When the wild goose character turns back, the moon is full on the West Tower. ”s “One Cut Plum”?

Then another hour passed.

At the end of Haishi, that is, around eleven o’clock in the evening.

Everyone finally finished the observation of Ye Ye.

Afterwards, Lao Su left Xie Laoduguan and the donkey where they were, and was responsible for finishing the telescope and going down the mountain.

He took old Li Wanghou and others down the mountain first—he planned to spend the whole night recording all the observations tonight.

Xu Yun, as a disciple, was naturally among the group of people going down the mountain, but compared to the excitement of Lao Su and others, he was vaguely puzzled:

I obviously made a telescope, why didn’t the halo indicate that the task was completed?

Could it be that.

Lao Su’s so-called last wish was not to observe the starry sky with his own eyes?

But think about it.

According to the normal trajectory, Lao Su obviously wouldn’t think of or understand the concept of ‘planet’ when he didn’t show up.

That is to say, he definitely has thoughts about stars, but most of them are not so attached to see the physical appearance of stars with his own eyes.

At most, I wonder if there are people eating spicy rabbit heads on the moon.

A large part of Old Su’s curiosity about the starry sky in the past is due to Xu Yun opening a door for him.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected

The ‘obsession’ in Lao Su’s heart probably has other reasons.

So what could it be?

Xu Yun shook his head slowly.

This matter can only be found in the next few days, and I will try to ask Lao Su for verification.

Then a group of people went down the mountain under the guidance of torches, and returned to Bianjing in a carriage. There was no curfew in the Song Dynasty. In addition, Lao Su and the others also reported relevant information to the City Patrol Secretary in advance before going out, so there was no need to return to the city. Encountered too many difficulties.

Nothing to say all night.

“Boom boom boom—”

Early the next morning, Xu Yun was woken up by a knock on the door:

“Brother Wang, Brother Wang, it’s morning!”

Xu Yun rubbed his sleepy eyes, gave a long stretch, and said in a daze:

“Who? Wait for me”

Since he moved to the east wing where the doormen lived, he basically slept until he woke up naturally every day. This was the first time someone called him to wake up.

Then he got dressed, yawned and opened the door.

I saw an acquaintance standing outside the door at this time:

Zhang San, the third brother.

I think so too.

Except for this kid, ordinary servants might not dare to knock on their own door.

“Brother Wang.”

Seeing Xu Yun’s sleepy face, Zhang Sanfei quickly raised the two tickets in his hand:

“Didn’t you always want to watch Cuqiu? Today there is a competition, and I managed to grab two tickets.

Yesterday you were not here, so I hurried to find you this morning, are you going? “

“Cuqiu?”

Hearing this word, Xu Yun’s drowsiness disappeared immediately, and his whole body became refreshed:

“Where did you kick it? How long until it starts?”

“Ju City outside the Daxiangguo Temple will start in about an hour.”

Xu Yun saw that he left a sentence, turned around and went back to the house:

“You wait for me for a while, I will change my clothes and set off.”

The so-called Cuqiu is the famous Cuju.

Little known.

The birthplace of modern football is John Bull, and the birthplace of ancient football belongs to China.

Actually.

If you want to talk about the history of Cuju in ancient China, it can be traced back at least to the Warring States Period.

For example, it is recorded in “Historical Records Biography of Su Qin”:

“Linzi is very rich and real, and all its people are playing poles, playing zithers, and beating bows.”

This is also the earliest record about Cuju in current history.

Waited until the Tang Dynasty.

Cuju has been further developed and has become a Cuju sport with detailed rules, and the work reflects the popularity of Cuju.

That is to say, when Cuju was in the Tang Dynasty, Cuju was not only a court entertainment, but also popularized among the people.

Wait until the Song Dynasty, Cuju reached the highest peak in history.

It is not an exaggeration to say.

Cuju is the national game of the Song Dynasty.

People in the Song Dynasty were enthusiastic about Cuju, and the popularity of Cuju competitions was no less than that of the World Cup in modern society.

From the emperor to the common people, they are all crazy Cuju fans.

Even Huangfa children are very fond of Cuju, and also developed an early football club, or Cuju team.

At that time, there were many professional Cuju performers who made a living by performing Cuju skills, and even entered the upper class.

For example, Gao Qiu in “Water Margin” relied on Cuju and flattery to flatter his superiors.

Xu Yun is a real old fan in later generations. He has witnessed the shamelessness of Bangzi in 2002 and the miracle in Istanbul in 2005.

But alas.

In later generations, although the country where he is located is powerful, it has always been a bit sluggish in terms of football.

He was not able to watch the World Cup in 2002, but the bright red at Wembley on June 5, 2010 was made by Xu Yun—he was an exchange student at John Bull at the time, so he went to the scene to support it.

That was also the first time in his life that he appeared on CCTV, although it was only for two seconds.

However, since 10 years later, the performance of the national football team has become worse and worse.

Before Xu Yun crossed, he even lost to Jiaozhi in a humiliating manner.

So after coming to the Song Dynasty, out of emotion and reason, he wanted to watch a Cuju game.

In a quarter of an hour.

After getting dressed, Xu Yun hurried out of the room, asked a servant in charge of meals for the guests, asked for two sesame seed cakes at will, and set off with Zhang San.

The location of Daxiangguo Temple is in the northeast of Suzaku Gate, that is, on the right hand side of Yujie Street, which belongs to the core area of the standard.

Xu Yun has been here a few times on this section of the road, but unfortunately he didn’t see a fat monk.

Of course.

As one of the most popular temples today, the location of Cuju will definitely not be right next to the temple:

Ju City, where the competition is held, is about four to five hundred steps away from Daxiangguo Temple. It seems to be a place specially set up for large-scale Cuju.

“There are three types of Juqiu, which are confrontation, feast and free play.”

After walking to the edge of Jucheng, Zhang San pointed to the inner venue separated by a wall and said:

“The so-called confrontation refers to the correspondence between the two sides of the goal. The players on both sides face each other and kick the ball into the opponent’s goal to win.”

“Yan Le is to set up a “Merry Eye” more than two feet in the middle of the field. Both sides shoot each other on one side, and the one who can make it pass through the Merry Eye wins.

“Bai Da is a loose kicking technique without a goal. It is mainly about the tricks and skills of the game. Those buskers on the street are playing this kind of mode.”

Xu Yun nodded clearly.

According to Zhang San’s description.

Confrontation is almost like a football game in later generations, banquet is somewhat similar to penalty shootout, and white fight is probably an exhibition match to show off each other’s skills.

Actually, what Xu Yun didn’t know was.

The skill of white fighting is called solving numbers, and it was not until Wu Chengen in the Ming Dynasty quoted it in Chapter 73 of “Journey to the West”, that this is how the idiom “all over the body” came into being.

Then Xu Yun looked at Zhang San and asked:

“Third brother, where are we watching the game?”

“Hai, this is not urgent.”

Zhang Sanjian waved the ticket in his hand and explained:

“We have a ticket, the seat will not be occupied, it is a bit early to enter now, let me show you something interesting first.”

Xu Yun was taken aback for a moment:

“playing what?”

Zhang San pointed in a certain direction:

“Bojian!”

“Bojian?”

Xu Yun blinked, and immediately reacted:

Good guy.

How could I forget another ‘national quintessence’ of the Northern Song Dynasty?

After all, this is a dynasty where even the emperor’s favored concubine dares to bet

Then, under the leadership of Zhang San, the two came to a street with a strong atmosphere of gambling houses.

I saw this moment.

There are more than a dozen large and small shops lined up on both sides of the street, and people keep coming and going, and the business seems to be extremely prosperous.

Some of them pressed four or five copper coins.

There are also pressed jade hairpin silver bracelets.

There are also those who throw money bank credentials.

Among the bettors, Xu Yun even saw a few government servants in official uniforms!

What a crazy dynasty.

Compared to Xu Yun’s amazement, Zhang San was cleverly finding a suitable shop:

“Liu Ji has always had low odds, don’t don’t”

“Zhao’s house has a bad reputation, and it is rumored that money is often not exchanged”

“The Lin family gambling house has many evil slaves, and it is said that they will rob money on the way home”

Looking at Zhang San who analyzed the past, Xu Yun glanced at him:

“Third brother, how much money are you going to bet? Are you so afraid of being blackmailed?”

Zhang San raised his chest very arrogantly:

“Liu Wenqian!”

Xu Yun: “.”

Then Zhang San searched for a whole circle before locking on to his target:

Behind the family is said to be the pavement of the third-level boss.

The two teams in today’s game are both ‘clubs’, and their backgrounds are quite large:

The home team is the Zhongjing Forbidden Army sitting in Bianjing, and the challenger is the Northwest Forbidden Army who just returned to the court with Wang Houtong. (In fact, it should be the forbidden army in Zhongnan, but I wrote the whole chapter before and it was locked, and I can’t change it, so let’s replace it with Zhongjing)

Seeing Xu Yun and the two of them walked to the pavement, a young man who looked like a second child quickly came up:

“Two guest officers, what do you want to win today?”

Xu Yun looked at the tabletop of the pavement, and a curiosity emerged in his heart, so he asked before Zhang San:

“This little brother, I don’t know what kind of prizes are there?”

“Yo, that’s a lot.”

Seeing that Xu Yun’s clothes are of good quality and his conversation is quite polite, he held his fingers attentively and explained:

“The easiest thing is to win or lose. Naturally, the odds are not high, so buy it and leave it.”

“Secondly, there are specific scores, such as three-on-one, four-on-two, and the odds are different.”

“In addition, the total score is odd, the total score is large, and how many goals can each “ball head” score.”

“For example, Ma Zeben, the strongest ball head of the Imperial Army in Beijing, was born as a potter in the Bureau of Equipment Manufacturing. He has a unique skill of returning to the nest, which makes me tsk tsk, even the officials give a thumbs up!”

Looking at the eloquent boy, Xu Yun thought for a while and said:

“Then I will bet ten cents on the Zhongjing imperial army to win.”

He is not a gambler, let alone expect to win a lot of money.

After all, nine out of ten bets lose, if you really fall into the pit, you are finished.

The ten coins he pressed were not worth much, purely because Xiaoyi had traveled to this era, and Xiaoyi had a personality.

Subsequently, Zhang San followed suit with six coins, and the Imperial Guards from Beijing also won.

After getting the ticket.

Xu Yun followed Zhang San back to the sidelines and got involved with the original two tickets.

The area of Ju City is much smaller than the football fields of later generations, surrounded by square walls, and in the center of the field stood a team of blue and a team of white players.

The goal is supported by bamboo poles and netted to keep the goal.

But it is different from later generations.

Each team has two goals, called the left pole net and the right pole net.

“Ma Zeben on the ball head, Gao Shu on the stilt ball, Huang Bo on the right side, Shi Ze on the head, Shen Wenyao on the left friend, Yusun Shen Yusun on the left pole net, Qian Gengyuan on the right pole net, and Xue Yu on the right pole.”

Looking at the ‘starting list’ handed out when entering the arena, Zhang San seemed very confident:

“Gao Shu and Ma Zeben have been partners for many years. Last time they played against the Imperial Army in Hezhong, Ma Zeben scored seven goals alone!”

In ancient Cuju.

Each person can be divided into several categories according to their position and responsibilities, such as ball worker, ball head, front and back, and netkeeper.

Among them, the ball workers are mainly responsible for receiving and passing the ball. They are the most numerous category in the Cuju game, and they are somewhat similar to the midfielders of later generations.

The head of the ball is the person who is responsible for shooting, that is, the striker.

As for the main and the deputy coercion, it is quite special:

This position is accessible.

They can hold the opponent’s offensive player with their arms, and their main responsibility is to intercept the opponent’s shot and pass the ball to their own player or ball head.

If the former is not considered, it is equivalent to a defender in modern football.

As for Sanli, he is a free agent. He can do all the work except the goalkeeper, but he cannot start intercepting in the opponent’s area.

Just as the players on the field came on the field, the ‘fans’ on the scene were also very lively.

Perhaps due to the atmosphere at home, they also sent a very friendly greeting to the Western Army:

“Those birds from the Western Army, do you dare to go in front of Grandpa? I’ll give you a slap in the face first!”

“The pickled scorpion beat the spine, let you know me, I am Meidong of the ‘Fengbahe’ in the west of the city!”

“Straight mother thief, X Bird is not as happy as you!”

And in the sound of greetings, the game started.

Bang—

Just listen to the sound of the gong from Spin, the referee.

The Beijing Central and Western Army who had won the right to serve immediately launched an attack.

At the moment when the gong sounded, the tall and burly Ma Zeben rushed straight in, pulling out half of his body in an instant with amazing explosive power.

His partner Takaki touched the ball lightly, and made a fake ball jumping action, shaking a Western Army player who was about to intercept the passing path.

“It’s beautiful, it’s good to pick up fish on dry land!”

Then facing the rushing enemy, Gao Shu lightly stepped on the ball and turned around on the spot.

Zhang San’s yelling became louder:

“Gaoshu’s stunt, turn the world!”

After passing the two opponents, Gao Shu no longer wanted the ball.

I saw a push of the arch of the foot.

Then he passed the ball accurately to the feet of another player who ran into the open space.

The ball worker took advantage of the opponent’s defense to be a little messy, unloaded the ball steadily, and quickly kicked up the pass.

This pass firmly locked Ma Zeben who ran to the enemy’s “self-defense zone”. That is, the area where overhand fouls are not allowed. The accuracy is high enough to make Ashley Yang feel ashamed.

At this time, Ma Zeben’s position is behind the net collector. If he grasps it, this opportunity can even be regarded as empty door!

However, Ma Zeben seemed to be in a bit of a bad state. Instead of hitting the goal directly, he chose to stop the ball and adjust.

At this time, the opposing player had already pushed forward, so he could only give a hasty kick.

In the end, this weak shot was firmly caught by the opponent’s left net catcher.

See this scenario.

There was a burst of regret in the stands.

Xu Yun also clicked his tongue lightly and shook his head.

It is clear.

The game hadn’t started long before Ma Zeben failed to enter the state.

However, before the sound of regret completely subsided, the situation on the field changed suddenly.

I saw the net catcher of the Western Army get up quickly after collecting the ball, and accurately found his own ball worker with a big foot.

Facing the menacing Zhongjing team, the ball worker’s expression remained unchanged, and he smiled coldly.

Then lightly flicked the ball and kicked it onto his back.

Zhang San shouted again:

“Back to the moon on both shoulders!”

Although the head hold can be used, it can only block the opponent with one’s own arm.

Cannot touch the sphere.

Elbows cannot be launched.

Therefore, facing the opponent’s practice of picking the ball behind him, Shi Ze suddenly couldn’t stop it.

And the players of the Western Army did not bother him anymore.

First, he put the ball behind his back a few times, and then used his back to unload the ball to the heel of his right foot.

At the same time, poke with your left foot.

“Diagonal flower arrangement sucks!”

This movement similar to the flower arrangement feet of later generations caught everyone by surprise, even if they were holding it, they were stunned for half a second.

In the direction passed by the ball worker, there is a figure rushing forward quickly.

I saw that he was running with his right foot slightly to one side, and he received the ball without any pressure.

At this time, in front of him, except for two pole and net collectors, there was an empty open field.

That is.

Single knife ball!

Xi Jun’s ball head did not hesitate at all, adjusted the pace slightly, and went straight to the left net.

Facing the dignified net collector, the ball head calmly shot a rubbing shot.

I saw this ball wrapped in cowhide drawing a beautiful arc against the ground.

The arc crosses the catcher’s five fingers dangerously and dangerously.

da—

Respond to the Internet!

“1 to 0!”

at the same time.

A frustrated male voice suddenly sounded beside Xu Yun:

“Straight mother thief Ma Zeben, wouldn’t it be over if you pushed the empty door early?”

Note:

You can guess who this person is, and if you guess correctly, you will add three more updates until the next chapter is updated.

Last night when I was coding, grandma suddenly became very dangerous. She stayed with her all night and then went to bed in the morning and just woke up at night.

Let’s see if I can make up another chapter overnight, but there’s no guarantee

(end of this chapter)