Sticking your buttocks out to step on the snow, competing on the ice...it turns out that the ancients had already figured out how to play with ice and snow!

From ancient times to the present, from ice skating to skiing, people have never stopped exploring winter sports. In the long course of history, people have not only learned how to resist the cold, but also learned how to use ice and snow, appreciate the snow and play with ice. In terms of ice and snow sports, the ancients had so many tricks that people can't help but sigh, they really knew how to play, and it was so fun!

The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that there is a mysterious country called Dingling, whose inhabitants have hair from the knees down, shaped like horse hooves, and are good at running. Some scholars believe that its real location is near Lake Baikal. This is an ancient primitive tribe living in a very cold area. In winter, they wear fur protective gear to keep their lower body warm, and use tools such as ski poles to assist walking, which enables them to move quickly on snow and ice.

In 2005, a rock painting was discovered in Khandeget Mongolian Township, Altay City, Xinjiang. It depicts several figures wearing skis and holding ski poles. Experts have determined that the rock painting is about 10,000 years old. The figures in the rock painting bend their waists and knees, raise their heads and stick out their buttocks, and use short snow pedals. The movements are basically the same as those of modern skiing. Scholars believe that the Altay region in Xinjiang, China is the earliest origin of human skiing.

The Book of Sui, Biography of Northern Di states: "After traveling north for 11 days, the Southern Shiwei tribe arrived at the Northern Shiwei tribe, which was divided into nine tribes and lived around the Tuhe Mountain... The land was covered with snow, and they were afraid of falling into pits, so they rode on wooden poles. They all hunted minks, wore fox hats, and wore fish skins." The Tang Dynasty's General Classics, Border Defense states that the "Basimi" and other tribes during the Sui and Tang dynasties "used wooden poles as horses and chased deer on the snow." This means that the Shiwei and Basimi people had mastered skiing skills, which is equivalent to today's sledding, and can be regarded as the prototype of modern skiing.

During the Ming Dynasty, ice skating was listed as a court sport. "Zhuo Zhong Zhi" records: "When the ice freezes in winter, you can drag a bed made of wooden boards with cross beds or straw mats. One person leads the rope in front, and can pull two or three people, and walk on the ice like flying." In the Qing Dynasty, ice and snow sports became increasingly diversified and standardized. Emperor Qianlong wrote "Imperial Ice Skating Fu", believing that "ice skating is important to the national system." The Qing royal family would review the skating skills of the Eight Banners Ice Skate Battalion on the ice of Beihai in Beijing every year as part of troop training. Volume 14 of Yangjizhai Conglu written by Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Zhenqiu records in detail the content and rules of ice skating: "The rules of ice skating are to practice martial arts and give rewards, commonly known as 'running on ice skates'... It was originally called 'rushing for the throne'. Two or three miles away from the ice bed where the emperor sits, a large banner is erected and all the soldiers are lined up. When the emperor rides on the ice bed (also called a drag bed), a cannon is fired, and a cannon is fired at the place where the banner is erected, and then all the soldiers rush over. The guards in front of the emperor stand on the ice, and if a rusher rushes too close to the emperor's throne, he is pulled to stop. There is a first and second class, and the rewards are different for each class."

First review: Li Chao

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Final judge: Li Jiao