Folk Sports: Traditional Chinese Games

Our forefathers’ sports the also consisted of numerous kinds of games they created to entertain themselves and others. Among these were kite-flying, swinging, fishing, touhu(throwing arrows into a wine pitcher), and lion-ae festivals today.

A stone relief in the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD 220)depicting a dance, a musical band and an angler. Excavated in 1976 in Tengxian County, Shangdong Province.

Chinese Archery Association (CAA) is a non-profit, national incorporated society for Archery. It is a corporate member of the All-China Sport Federation (ACSF).

A boy with his fishing-line: A porcelain pillow in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), unearthed in 1955 in Xingtai, Hebei Province.

A Qing kite painted with two ladies. Weifang Kite Museum, Shandong Province.

A Qing porcelain bowl showing a boy flying a Kite. China Sports Museum.

Portions of this article were adapted from research materials originally published on China Sports Museum.