At the beginning of 2004, FIFA had confirmed that football originated in China, and according to the two documents of the Warring States Policy and the History of History, in the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2300 years ago, the capital of the State of Qi, Linzi, became popular. In the Han Dynasty, due to the implementation of Liu Bang, a "super fan", Keju gradually developed into a very professional sport, and professional football stadiums began to appear in the imperial palace, the so-called "Jucheng", with walls and stands. The game is divided into two teams, each side has twelve players, and the number of balls kicked into the goal determines the winner or loser, which is the prototype of modern football. It is said that after that, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, such as Liu Che the Han WuDi emperor And Liu Xiao, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, were all keen to play football, and when Liu Che played football, he also let his literary attendants write "Keju Fu" to help.
Where there is a game, there are stars. The one depicted in Shi Nai'an's "The Complete Biography of water margin", Gao Li, who became the commander of the temple in front of the palace, was a famous football star who was highly skilled in the Song Dynasty and often accompanied Song Huizong to play football. In addition, the Song Dynasty also had a group of professional stars gathered in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty Lin'an City, who regularly performed kicking at the Imperial Palace Keju Banquet, specializing in the survival of the kicking skills, and were the professional stars with high status at that time.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the players of the Song Dynasty also organized the Bona Health Cup, which is equivalent to today's Chinese Super League. The players' group, called "Qiyun Society", is a special Keju organization, which is the earliest single sports association in China, and the ten urgent regulations of sincerity, gentleness, respect and humility advocated by it, and the ten prohibitions of quitting over-talking, gambling, rampant and drunk, have also become the prototype of the earliest team charter in China. After the Song Dynasty, Keju was still popular among nobles and officials. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus, who loved ice skating, also combined it with ice skating and invented the pattern of sports of the ice bow. It was not until 1863 that the modern sport of football was born in Britain, opening another chapter in the history of football development.
During the Tang Dynasty, because Tang Taizong and Tang Xuanzong loved to watch "Keju", the "Keju" movement quickly became popular, and the emperors and officials in the palace also fell in love with "Keju". Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is also a crazy "fan", which can be seen from the existing "Song Taizu Keju Diagram". The Song Taizu Keju Tu is 28.6 cm wide and 56.3 cm long, originally written by Su Hanchen, a famous painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, it is a copy of Qian Xuan of the Yuan Dynasty. The picture is light and elegant, the use of ancient lines is clumsy, the player is song taizu Zhao Kuangyin and his brother Song Taizong, watching the ministers Zhao Pu, Chu Zhaofu, Dang Jin, Shi Shouxin and other four Song Dynasty founding heroes. Zhao Kuangyin was famous for playing football at that time, and he was especially good at "white play", that is, what people call "fancy football" now, that is, when playing football, he used his head, shoulders, back, abdomen, knees, feet and other parts to contact the ball, flexible change, and do as he pleased, so that "the ball does not fall all day long".
In addition to ball skills, the Song Dynasty's Keju production process has also been new and improved compared to the Tang Dynasty, and has formed a standard process of production, for example, the surface of the ball has developed from eight pieces to twelve pieces, the raw material is "cooked nitrate yellow leather, solid material light cutting", and the process is "densely sewn, no exposed corners". After the Keju was made, the weight was still "positive weight twelve two", the specifications should be "broken together very round", etc., the progress of the craft opened the second climax period of the development of ancient Chinese football for the Keju fever of the Song Dynasty, and also provided posterity with the most valuable information for studying the development of football in the Song Dynasty.
After the Yuan Dynasty, keju activities have become a national sport, and many ladies have fallen in love with keju. The Ming dynasty painter Du Yan painted "Lady Keju Diagram", which depicts the scene of the ladies playing with the keju in the garden. Different from the modern women's football advocating strength and speed, women's keju because of the performance, the appearance, body, skills of women engaged in keju have higher requirements, therefore, women's keju in ancient times also known as "beauty keju", it reflects a unique feminine beauty of women in keju.
Ming Qianfu has a poem "Keju", "Keju is on the spot in February, the fairy wind blows down two Chan Juan, sweat stained pink face flowers with dew, dust moth eyebrows willow with smoke." The green sleeves are low hanging from the jade shoots, and the red skirt is obliquely trailing the golden lotus. A few times, he was weak and weak, and hated the beautiful teenager of Chang'an." It can be seen that the beautiful style at that time. It is said that the overall level of "women's football" in the Tang Dynasty palace is very high, and it is regarded as the "royal women's football team", unfortunately, after five generations, due to the emergence of the evil custom of foot binding, women's football rights were directly deprived, and "women's football" gradually fell.
In addition, in addition to the above classic works, the "Keju Tu" by ma Yuan, a Southern Song Dynasty court painter who is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States, and Huang Shen's "Keju Tu" in the Tianjin History Museum, are all excellent works depicting the theme of football in China's history.