Chapter 5 Wooden shot in the fourth quarter

In modern western ball games, boccia is a very popular activity, with little exercise, strong entertainment and suitable for all ages, so it is very popular.The earliest boccia in the West originated in Germany in the 3rd century, called "Kegels" (kegels), rolling wooden balls hit small wooden posts placed on the ground.This was a favorite religious activity of monks and priests in medieval Germany.In this kind of activity, the wooden pillars placed on the ground (usually on the floor of the church corridor) represent evil. If the thrower can successfully knock down these wooden pillars, it means that he has washed himself of his sins. .This religious activity was gradually secularized and evolved into a popular folk game of nine pins, in which nine wooden pins are hit by rolling a ball.Finally, it evolved into the modern ground ball sport, that is, 10 bottle-shaped wooden posts are placed at one end of the 18.30-meter wooden fairway, and the batter rolls the ball along the fairway at the other end to hit them. more.

Since the Tang Dynasty in my country, there has also been a sport of hitting wooden pillars with a ball similar to boccia.This activity adopts the terminology in archery activities, using the wooden pillar as the target and the wooden ball as the arrow, which means that the wooden ball is used as the arrow to shoot the target of the wooden pillar. Therefore, the name of this Chinese ground ball is " Wood shot".In the wooden shooting game, 15 bamboo shoot-shaped wooden pillars with flat bottoms are used as targets.Interestingly, this kind of game has the same strong spiritual and moral meanings as the original boccia in early German churches. The difference is that Mushe emphasizes people's compliance with traditional Chinese morals in the way of games. The 15 wooden pillars are divided into red and black categories.There are 10 red pillars, on which are written "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, faith, warmth, kindness, respect, frugality, let" in red, while the five black pillars are respectively marked with black ink " Arrogant, arrogant, sycophant, greedy, indiscriminate" five words.These red and black wooden posts are placed at one end of the field, and the batter is present at the other end of the field to hit the post with the ball. The one who hits the red post wins, and the one who hits the black post loses.Lu Bing of the Tang Dynasty wrote the book "Wood Shooting Picture", and Chao Gongwu of the Song Dynasty also recorded this picture in "Junzhai Shushu Zhi".