Diabolo, also called dance bell, is dancing with a long rope and playing with dumbbell-shaped rollers; Shuttlecock is different from shuttlecock. Shuttlecock is mainly the performance of skills such as back kick and side kick. These two sports have a history of more than 2,000 years, and they are ancient and wonderful national sports in China.
According to legend, Cao Zhi wrote a poem "Diabolo Fu" in the Three Kingdoms. If this is the earliest record of diabolo, its history is at least 1700 years. In chapter 1 10 of Water Margin, Song Jiang saw someone playing "Hu Kou" on the way to conquer Fang La, and wrote a poem because of Su Taiwei's kindness: "A low voice and a high voice, a loud voice and a clear voice. There is a heroic force in the air, and no one is supporting it in vain. " Of course, the novel was written by later generations, but it also shows that diabolo has become very common in the era of writers.
According to textual research, Diabolo was originally a folk children's toy evolved from gyro. Diabolo has different names at different times and regions. Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people called it "empty bell", some people in the south called it "humming son", Tianjin called it "wind gourd" or "stuffy gourd", Sichuan called it "ringing spring", Shanghai called it "dumbbell", Shanxi called it "knocking", Changsha called it "Tianlei Palace" and Taiwan Province called it "pulling bell"
According to Liu Dong and Yu Yizheng's A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of Jingshi in the Late Ming Dynasty? "Springfield" has a description: "The hollow bell wood, the side mouth, and the soup asphalt are as prominent as the bell, but the handle is flat on it. Don't wind the rope around its handle. There is no hole in the bamboo ruler. Measure its rope to reach the empty clock, but the rope is pulled to the right and the bamboo is pulled to the left. A Le, the empty bell goes boom, big bell, little fly, when the bell is broken. Diameters range from inches to eight or nine inches. Let go, one or three people. " Here refers to the empty bell "hollow (in fact, bamboo is cut into small pieces), and the side mouth (bamboo section is perforated)", and the mouth is filled with semi-circular bamboo to form a "whistle", and the bamboo section is sealed with thin wooden boards to form a bellows; The center of the board passes through a bamboo stick, and the bamboo stick is long and short. Wrap a thick rope around the long handle. "Don't have holes in the bamboo ruler." Put the rope through the hole of the bamboo ruler, tighten it hard, and then put it away in a hurry. The empty clock will keep spinning on the ground and whistle (air enters the hole and is discharged due to strong pressure). Empty clock is an early name for diabolo. Unlike now, when playing with it, the movement is not shaking, and its rotation is not in the air, but on the ground.
According to Qin Xiaoyi's Overseas Heritage? There is a "red baby play pattern round box" in the lacquer ware, and the baby play picture is engraved on the lid. In the picture, a child is shaking diabolo, and another child is watching with his ears covered. Diabolo is disc-shaped, with a wooden shaft inside. The wooden shaft is wrapped with a bamboo stick rope and pulled and shaken. The method of shaking diabolo in this painting is exactly the same as now. It is understood that this red lacquer box was made during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. If the scene is true, it can be said that as early as the early Ming Dynasty, the modeling characteristics and gameplay of diabolo were quite mature.
By the Qing Dynasty, diabolo had developed into a popular acrobatic program. On the basis of the original patterns, people have created many new patterns and difficult techniques. Beautiful dance and beautiful accompaniment music are incorporated into the performance, which further enhances people's aesthetic taste.