Linzi Football Museum

Cuju has influenced China's sports and entertainment for more than 2000 years, and has had a profound impact on world football. On July 15, 2004, FIFA confirmed that Chinese ancient Cuju was the origin of football. On September 12, 2005, under the guidance, help and strong support of FIFA, AFC, the culture and History Committee of the General Administration of sport of the people's Republic of China and the Chinese Football Association, the first professional football Museum in China and the world to fully display the evolution history of Chinese football for thousands of years and the development style of world football officially opened in Linzi, the birthplace of world football! Linzi Football Museum, covering an area of 2500 square meters, is located in the central urban area of Linzi. It consists of 10 exhibition units, including ancient football and modern football. It displays more than 150 precious cultural relics, more than 300 historical pictures and more than 20 scenes. It systematically shows the evolution history and development style of football in thousands of years, including its origin, development, influence and dissemination. How was Cuju born, which has influenced China for thousands of years and brought endless joy to the world? How did ancient Chinese people play Cuju? Why did Cuju become the number one sport in the world? What is the original form of modern football like? How to become the king of sports? How to realize the docking across time and space between Chinese Cuju and world football. Linzi Football Museum, a three-dimensional Encyclopedia of football culture, is a collection of Chinese Cuju culture history, folk custom development history, sports culture history and world football history. It is the holy land of football culture and a good place for holiday tourism. Lead you to explore the origin of football, experience Cuju culture, appreciate the charm of football!

Linzi Football Museum

Linzi Football Museum is located in the central city of Linzi, Zibo City, Shandong Province, where football originated. It is located by Taigong lake of Qi Cultural Museum, covering an area of 11800 square meters. After the completion of the new museum, many functions, such as sightseeing, leisure and entertainment, historical and cultural research and development, product development and so on, are integrated, which condenses the Chinese Cuju cultural history, sports cultural history and world football history. This paper systematically shows the origin, development and dissemination of football in the past 2400 years.

Development history

Cuju has influenced China's sports and entertainment for more than 2000 years, and has had a profound impact on world football. On July 15, 2004, FIFA confirmed that Chinese ancient Cuju was the origin of football. On September 12, 2005, under the guidance, help and strong support of FIFA, AFC, the culture and History Committee of the General Administration of sport of the people's Republic of China and the China Football Association, the first professional football Museum in China and the world to fully display the evolution history of Chinese football for thousands of years and the development style of world football officially opened in Linzi, Zibo, the birthplace of world football!

Linzi Football Museum is the first professional football Museum in the world. It is a three-dimensional Encyclopedia of football culture, which contains the history of Chinese Cuju culture, folk custom development, sports culture and world football history. On July 15, 2004, Mr. Blatter, then president of FIFA, solemnly announced in Beijing that football originated in Zibo and Linzi. Linzi Football Museum is the first Football Museum in the world to fully display the origin and development history of football, and the first professional football Museum at home and abroad. Cuju in ancient China is the origin of modern football. It was born in the ancient Qi state between Haidai, that is, Zibo, Shandong Province. Cuju means "kick" and Ju means "ball". With the rise and fall of the feudal society, Cuju has gone through a development path which is almost consistent with the fate of the feudal society. In the Han Dynasty, it gained great development. It was the most prosperous in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and began to decline from the yuan and Ming Dynasties. In the Qing Dynasty, it was mainly popular among the people. In modern times, it was only carried out in a few folk areas, and it was still retained in Linzi area.

Linzi Football Museum is a two-story building, which is divided into two parts: Ancient football and modern football. Walking into the hall on the first floor, it is a river of years composed of Cuju and football, symbolizing the development process from Cuju to football. Its development traces constitute the first letters "L" and "Z" of Linzi Chinese Pinyin, and it is also the first word of English word "world" The letter "W". On one side of its two sides are the ancient Cuju movements, and on the other side are the classic kicking movements of modern football stars. The interaction between the two reveals the theme of the whole museum, that is: Cuju in Linzi, football in the world. From the first floor hall to the north and south, there are preface hall, traceability hall, origin hall, development hall, prosperity hall, infirmity hall and influence communication hall, which mainly reveals the development process of ancient football. The exhibition area is divided into three parts: first, the confirmation of the origin of football, then the modern and contemporary Chinese football, and finally the world football. The museum has a rich collection of cultural relics and detailed materials. It displays nearly 200 precious cultural relics and hundreds of historical pictures that are admired by the world at all times and in all over the world. There are more than 20 restored scenes. Here you can see the wonderful ancient Cuju performance.

Since FIFA president Blatter officially announced in Beijing in May 2005 that Linzi is the birthplace of world football, Linzi has a more attractive business card to the world. Linzi Football Museum has not only built the world's first comprehensive and systematic exhibition of the development history of football over two thousand years and the development style of world football, but also successively participated in a series of international activities, such as the closing ceremony of FIFA centennial celebration and the "charming football exhibition" in Hamburg, Germany, greatly enhancing the popularity of Linzi at home and abroad. In 2007, the landmark memorial of the origin of football - "the source of the holy ball" was permanently located in the headquarters building of FIFA, which has become a great witness of Linzi's going to the world.

Cuju is an ancient Chinese football sport. "Cuju" means kicking with feet, "Ju" is a leather ball, "Cuju" means kicking with feet. This is a sport and entertainment that has influenced China for more than 2000 years. On July 15, 2004, FIFA confirmed that Chinese ancient Cuju was the origin of football.

The historical traces of Chinese ball games can be traced back to thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, but it has become a kind of sport with clear rules of the game - Cuju, which was in Linzi, the former capital of Qi during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Cuju began to flourish and became the first fanatical football fan in China and the world.

With the evolution of Ju from solid to inflatable, the ball becomes lighter, and the number of pieces of Ju gradually increases, which is close to that of modern football.

In the development of ancient Chinese Cuju, there are three basic forms of Cuju: team direct confrontation, single goal indirect confrontation and free play.

Cuju first spread eastward to Japan and Korea.

The biggest influence of Cuju is that it has gradually developed into the most attractive first sport football in the world through external communication.

The historical traces of Chinese ball games can be traced back to thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, but Cuju, a sport with clear rules of the game, was formed in Linzi, the capital of Qi state during the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. The biggest influence of Cuju is that it has gradually developed into the most attractive first sport in the world football through external communication. FIFA president Blatter once said: football originated in China, and from there to Egypt, and then from there to Greece, Rome, France, and finally to the United Kingdom.

On July 15, 2004, at the opening ceremony of the third China International Football Expo held in Beijing, FIFA president Blatter officially announced that football originated in China. At the subsequent press conference, on behalf of FIFA and AFC, the Secretary General of AFC, verapan officially announced that world football originated in Zibo and Linzi of China. The Asian Football Federation, the culture and History Committee of the State General Administration of sports and the China Football Association officially issued the certificate of "origin of football" and the commemorative cup to Linzi, Zibo. So far, Linzi has officially become the origin of world football. In September 2005, Linzi Football Museum was completed and opened.

Venue features

Since its opening, Linzi Football Museum has attracted nearly 100000 Chinese and foreign tourists and nearly 100 Chinese and foreign news media to explore the origin of football, experience Cuju culture and appreciate the charm of football. In view of the fact that Cuju cultural relics are rare and mostly scattered among the people, Linzi District has strengthened the protection and collection of Cuju cultural relics, and actively declared China's intangible cultural heritage.

Since its establishment, Linzi Football Museum has performed nearly 2000 times for important official activities, related product promotion and enterprise publicity of governments at all levels and relevant enterprises and institutions, and has become a landmark cultural brand of Zibo and Linzi.

There are three forms of Cuju performance: direct confrontation, indirect confrontation and white fight. Cuju is mainly a game of patterns and skills, simple venue, carry out a wide range. The action and pattern of kicking ball in Cuju is called solution. The solution of controlling the ball with shoulder, chest, back and head is called upper cut solution. The solution of controlling the ball with knee, waist and abdomen is called middle cut solution. The solution of controlling the ball with leg, foot, ankle, toe and heel is called lower cut solution. The three solutions can be temporarily combined into a complete set of solutions according to the landing point and position of the ball When you play Ju, you have to do everything you can to play some tricks. Each set of solutions has a variety of kicking actions, such as: turning, creeping, riding, kicking, twisting, etc. The ancients also gave some examples of movements

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