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| Chinese Flying Feather |
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The flying feather is called Jianzi, whose name is poetic and given
by the people who are intersted in it.It was from the Han period
that people played it, and was popular in liuchao, Sui period, Tang
period, and nineteen thirties.Jianzi has a history of two thousand
years, you can find something about it in a few ancient books.In
1933,Nanjing in the fifth national sports meeting, playing jianzi,
wrestling, and so on were defined as the national item formerly?And
in June, 1961, a movie called flying feather was finished by the
central news movie company,the movie was so successful that it gained
the internationa movie festival gold metal of movies?In 1963 ,Playing
jianzi was teached by teachers in elementry school so that it was
more popular than ever before?Mr Guo Qizheng is an export in playing
Jianzi, he studied it for many years and finished two books about
it called learning Playing jianzi and learning Playing jianzi from
youth, which cover the most thing of jianzi in the history?His student
Mrs Chen Jing,teaches playing Jianzi in the TV show and made a VCD
about it named“ learning playing jianzi. Her beautiful way
of playing it is famous to everybody in Chinese-jianzi-organization?
Playing jianzi does much benefit to health,Raising legs, jumping,
and turning the body make up the wonderful gesture, which make
every part of body take part in the excersise and be active and
move freely.It also raise the vital capacity,protein and sums
of metabolism.its also good for the health of brain.Playing jianzi
has something to do with the health care of kidney, a lot of people
agree.
When some people playing it together,they can train the sense
of a group,and cooper more?It also can train the spirit of over
coming difficulties,mastering opportunities?Its different from
playing soccer,in which people touch the ball as long as hes near
it, there is a disipline in receiving jianzi,it remains in the
same place and people move to touch it without leting it change
place.During the remaining, people can do a lot of beautiful act.
The age of people who play jianzi is not so limited, from the
child to elders in their eighties, everybody and take part in
the item?The mastering of it is not forgetable as well, some people
stopped practicing it for some years can also play it as well
as before.It dosent charge you much because only a few feathers,
two metal coins are available to make up a nice jianzi, its so
small that you can take it everywhere, and play it whenever you
want.
Playing Jianzi is similar to playing soccer, but every act of
playing jianzi is finished without touching the ground.Taking
jianzi as the helping excersise of playing soccer is intesting
to athelets and good for training soccer.
In order to playing jianzi succesfully, people have to have a
fast reflection, master the time correctly, and make a gesture
quickly.According the above, there are three factors of palying
jianzi: fast move, stable body and beautiful gesture.
It seems easy to play jianzi, but there are a lot of different
gesture to play it, few people can master it.But if you see it
as a excersise, it wont be so difficult, it brings happiness and
the feeling of success to people.When you finish a new gesture,
your feelings of happiness cant be expressed only by word.
Playing jianzi is only mastered by Chinese, and its widely known
with a long history?Its not only a item of sports, bur also a
artic performance?The same as Wushu, it should be popular to the
people, to study and make progress of it. |
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