(1)
The tiger and crane stand in the shape of pines, and the whole body is neat and short. The fist is heavy and the legs are fierce, and the posture is fast, and the pile is calm and quiet.
(2)
Two arms are as light as wadding, and flying freely is not empty. Liuhe knife method is dazzling, and the wind and rain are impenetrable.
(3) A gentleman is always striving for self-improvement when he is healthy.
The poet wrote about watching a football (cuju) match in Xianyang when he was a teenager in his poem Feeling in Late Spring (Part IV). The poem says: When a young man rides into Xianyang, a stork seems to be as light as a butterfly and as crazy.
ten thousand people watched the cuju court, and the swing was busy all spring.
the scenery is as muddy as yesterday, and the ambition is low and only hurts itself.
There is nothing to do in the Dongzhai Village, and it only burns incense when sweeping the snow behind closed doors.
(4) The poet once wrote a seven-character poem entitled "Corner Arrival Poetry" after watching the "Corner Arrival" (now wrestling) competition held by the imperial court to improve soldiers' martial arts. The poem says:
Only when the wonderful play in the square fights for success can it make you smile. When the corner arrived, a banquet was held, and the class was taken out of the temple to wear flowers.
(5) Wang Jian, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a seven-character poem, which vividly described the "football match" of ladies-in-waiting at that time. Poetry says:
tomorrow, the makeup powder will always be by the flowering tree in Chaoyang.
in cold food, people are always beating in vain, and money is distributed first in the treasury. At that time, the "Cuju sport" played by a single person or several people without a goal was called "beating in vain".
(6) Water polo was called "throwing water" in the Song Dynasty, and Song Huizong Zhao Ji personally wrote a seven-character poem for this water sport. The poem says:
The blue ditch on the west corridor of Yuanxi is long, and the bamboo trees are dense and the green shadows are cool. Throw the ball and play in the water for distance, and the meteor shines a little.
(7) Written by the Hanlin Academy in the Ming Dynasty (historian) Qian Fu once wrote a poem entitled Cuju, which described the scene of a women's football match.
Poetry says:
Cuju was on the spot in February, and the fairy wind blew two beautiful juan. Sweat is stained with powder, flowers are exposed, and dust flies at moths, eyebrows and willows with smoke.
Jade bamboo shoots are hung low in the green sleeves, and golden lotus is exposed obliquely in the red skirt. After several trips, I was so weak that I hated killing beautiful teenagers in Chang 'an. "