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How did table tennis come about?
What was inside the early table tennis sets?
Why is Shanghai the birthplace of table tennis in China?
Today, Xiaoti takes you together to "cloud around" the Shanghai Sports Museum
Listen to the early Ping Pong collection and tell the stories behind it
In the first exhibition hall of the Shanghai Sports Museum, there is a set of table tennis sets covered with traces of age, which bears witness to the history of the evolution of early table tennis.
These are two Sets of Victorian Table Tennis in England, including rackets, nets and net racks. You may have questions, this pair of table tennis rackets and our current table tennis rackets look very different, looking more like a small tennis racket? In fact, this is to retain the original form of table tennis that was just born out of tennis. The English name of table tennis is "Table tennis", which to some extent tells the "blood relationship" between table tennis and tennis.
Tennis balls on the table
In the 1870s and 1880s, tennis flourished in Britain. However, due to the fact that it is generally carried out outdoors, it is deeply affected by weather conditions. As a result, some British university students have found a way to move tennis indoors: using the dining table as a table, books as a net, parchment as a racket, and playing around the table. This new type of "indoor tennis tournament" played on the table has become the prototype of table tennis. The English name of table tennis is also derived from this name.
This early British table tennis singles set is displayed in the museum's first exhibition hall, and if you look closely at the top left corner of the box above, it has the words "The new Table Game" in red. It can be seen that when table tennis first came out in the UK, it was indeed promoted as a "new type of table game".
Wait a minute! In the center of the box, there is a big "Ping Pong" printed on it, instead of the "Table tennis" mentioned earlier, what is going on?
Ping Pong is a kind of progress
This brings us to a big step forward in the balls used in table tennis. There were no strict requirements for the early ping-pong ball, and everything you could get at hand could be used for a dozen, a ball of yarn, a cork stopper, and so on. In 1890, an English trail runner, James Gibo, brought back from the United States a hollow toy ball made of the new material celluloid, which was elastic and lightweight, and soon became popular. When a celluloid ball hits the table and racket, it makes a "Ping Pong" sound. Later, people gave the sport a symbolic name "Ping Pong", but this title is not as formal as "Table tennis". Table tennis in Chinese is transliterated from "Ping Pong".
The way of doing business for stationery shop owners
Table tennis became a popular sport in the UK. Table tennis parties are held almost every week, and various monthly magazines, weekly magazines, and even poetry collections related to table tennis are published. Within a few years, this new movement had been brought to the world by British merchants, travelers and armies, as well as to Asia.
In 1902, a professor in Tokyo, Japan, first introduced table tennis from England to Japan. Only two years later, in the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), Wang Mou, the owner of the Heji Stationery Shop on Zhaotong Road on Henan Road in Shanghai, bought back 10 sets of table tennis equipment from Japan, found a few people to learn to play, and displayed them in the store to facilitate sales. Then table tennis gradually became popular in Shanghai and then spread to other cities. Therefore, Shanghai is the birthplace of table tennis in the mainland.
The picture above is taken at the Greater China Celluloid Table Tennis Workshop in Shanghai in 1927. When the sport of table tennis first entered Shanghai, it was affected by the political situation and war at that time, and the people's lives were tired, so it did not develop well.
After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao called for "developing sports and strengthening the people's physique." Table tennis is not very demanding on the field, you can play on the cement table, and you can also play with a wooden board on the sauce tank, so it is popular in the alleys and factory workshops in Shanghai. With a strong mass base, Chinese table tennis players began to appear in various world competitions and achieved results that attracted the world's attention. Of course, among them, there is the figure of Shanghai table tennis players. This is the next story.
Collections in the Shanghai Sports Museum
Not just a piece of history
It is also the spiritual outlook of an era
From a collection of early table tennis equipment
To Shanghai became the birthplace of Table Tennis in China
This is a history of ping-pong that continues to be opened up
It is also a sequel to a Shanghai sports story
【Listen to the collection to tell stories】
In the next issue, Xiao Ti will take you to understand it together
Why does Shanghai have it?
The title of the "cradle" of Table Tennis in China?
Source: CNKI, Shanghai Local History
Part of the picture: love ping pong public number, embroidery art Sohu number,
Shanghai Jing'an
Editors: Xie Wenyun, Yang Ye
Review: Zhang Xiaotong
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