When did table tennis come into existence in China?

Table tennis originated in England. Europeans still call table tennis"Tennis on the table"From this, it can be seen that table tennis was developed from tennis. At the end of the 19th century, tennis was popular in Europe, but due to the limitations of the venue and weather, some British university students moved tennis indoors, using the dining table as a table, books as a net, and parchment paper as a racket, and playing around on the table.

At the beginning of the 20th century, table tennis flourished in Europe and Asia. In 1926, the International Table Tennis Invitational Tournament was held in Berlin, Germany. Later, it was posthumously recognized as the first World Table Tennis Championships. At the same time, the International Table Tennis Federation was established.

The widespread development of table tennis has led to great improvements in rackets and balls. The original racket was a lightly machined wooden board. Later, someone put a layer of sheepskin on the racket.

With the development of modern industry, Europeans put rubber particles on their rackets. In the early 50s, the Japanese invented rackets with thick sponges. The original ball was a rubber ball similar to a tennis ball, and in 1890, British athlete Gibb brought back some celluloid balls from the United States as toys for table tennis.

Among the many table tennis competitions, the most prestigious is the World Table Tennis Championships, which were initially held once a year and then changed to a biennial event after 1957.

In 1904, Wang Daowu, the owner of a stationery store in Shanghai, bought back 10 sets of table tennis equipment from Japan. Since then, table tennis has been introduced to China.

Table tennis belongs to the national sport of our country, originated in the United Kingdom, because the ball is hit with the sound of table tennis, so the ball is called table tennis, table tennis is a skill-based ball sport. Generally, a heavy ball made of celluloid or plastic is used as a match ball, two players hold a racket or both players hold a racket, and play against each other on a table separated by a net, generally mostly singles or doubles, the two sides hit each other until one side can not return the ball, and the other can score until one side scores a base to win, and generally the first 11 points in a game wins.

Table tennis originated in England in the 19th century, when tennis was popular in Europe, but due to the constraints of the venue and weather, some college students moved tennis indoors and slowly formed table tennis. Soon after the appearance of table tennis, it became popular all over Europe and spread to the whole world. In the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, more than 200,000 Americans were playing table tennis, and slowly, table tennis balls flowed to China.

At the beginning of the 20th century, table tennis became popular in Europe and Asia.

Table tennis in my country was launched in 1916, mainly in churches in several big cities in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In 1918, Shanghai took the lead in establishing the city's table tennis federation and some other organizations, and then, many teams were established, and it was on this basis that the National Table Tennis Federation was born in Shanghai, which also marked the development of table tennis in China.

In the 50s, China's table tennis was more and more loved by the masses, so table tennis technology has also made a qualitative leap. In 1959, China's outstanding athlete Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship of the Table Tennis World Championships for the first time, and in 1961, China hosted the 26th World Table Tennis Championships.

Since 1961, China's table tennis has come to the forefront of the world, and it can be said that this success has also driven the love and popularization of table tennis among the vast number of people in China. In 1965, the men's and women's teams won a total of five championships, and the level of table tennis in China was at the forefront of the world. Since then, China's table tennis technology has become more and more mature, and it can be said that in the field of table tennis, China has absolute strength.

Around the time of Guangxu, that is, in 1904, he began to play table tennis, which is the national sport of my country.

The era of playing table tennis in our country, if you count from the folk, is about the 40s, but in the 50s, the development of table tennis gradually expanded after the group won the world championship.

Table tennis originated in England, but it was introduced from Japan. It is said that in 1904, the manager of a stationery store in Shanghai brought table tennis into our country and started table tennis.

Since 1984, my country has been playing table tennis, and table tennis has been my country's national sport until now.

As an official Olympic sport, table tennis was not until 1988. But its popularity and charm have risen all the way in the Olympic arena. At Sydney 2000, table tennis was the fourth event to sell out all tickets.

What is less known is that the ITTF passed a resolution to participate in the Olympic Games as early as 1937, but the cautious and self-respecting president of the ITTF Montague failed to implement it for fear that the low standard of table tennis would be rejected, and who knows that the delay was 50 years.

It is a historical fate that the Chinese regard table tennis as the "national sport".

In 2007, Mr. Chack Hoy, director of the Lausanne Table Tennis Museum in Switzerland, received a precious postcard, which was written by a European from Tianjin, China, to Brussels, the capital of Belgium on January 22, 1902. It is conclusive and reliable proof that table tennis was introduced to China at least in 1901. Another "Hundred Beauty Pictures" of that year vividly depicts the initial relationship between Chinese and table tennis, and there is a poem as proof:

The spring breeze on the table is your move, and the wire mesh is not far away; Self-cut poplar is lighter than a fan, and the shooting stars are swirling and floating. ”

Table tennis is a popular project for sports lovers in China, Zhi is known as China's "national ball dao", the reason why table tennis can become China's national sport is because table tennis has won China's first world championship in history!

Why did table tennis, which originated in the United Kingdom, take root in China and flourish and become China's national sport?

Originated in England from Japan.

If it had rarely rained in the UK, table tennis might not have been invented by now. Table tennis, whose British name is "table tennis", was invented by some British university students at the end of the 19th century. Because it often rains in the UK, tennis that could have been played outdoors had to be played indoors.

They used the table as the table, the book as the net, and the wine bottle cork as the ball, and pushed it back and forth on the table to form a table tennis ball. This was the beginning of table tennis. Later, the sport became popular among the British aristocracy.

The man who introduced table tennis to China was the manager of a stationery store on Sima Road (now Fuzhou Road) in Shanghai. His name was Wang Daoping, and in 1904 he purchased 10 sets of table tennis equipment from Japan.

When he came back, in order to sell his business, he learned to fight by himself, and then pulled his buddies to fight together. He installed the pavement with transparent glass so that pedestrians could see it. In this way, when he made money, table tennis sowed the first seeds in the land of China.

Table tennis originated in England. Table tennis was introduced to China from Japan in December 1904.

Many terms used in table tennis are derived from tennis. The ball used to play table tennis is called ping-pong ball or table-tennis ball, the table tennis table is called ping-pong table, the table top is called court, the net in the middle is called net, the rack supporting the net is called net support, and the table tennis racket is called ping-pong bat.

In 1959, after Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, Chinese athletes began to appear on the international table tennis stage.

Table tennis singles originally generally adopted a best-of-three or best-of-five system (21 points per game), but in 2001, it was changed to a best-of-seven system or a best-of-five system (11 points per game).

Table tennis was introduced to China from Japan in December 1904. At first, Wang Daoping, the owner of a stationery store on Sima Road in Shanghai, bought back 10 sets of table tennis equipment from Japan and performed in the store, so the number of people buying and playing table tennis gradually increased, and major cities also promoted this activity. At that time, table tennis rackets were wooden rackets, and the board surface was smooth, so it was difficult to rotate the ball, so there were only two ways to play: pushing and pumping.

Since the first World Table Tennis Championships, the table tennis of the Chinese team has begun to become stronger and stronger. In 1959, Rong Guotuan won a medal for my country, and later many outstanding players emerged, the most famous is the current director of the National Sports Bureau Cai Zhenghua, but at that time table tennis was only individual players to fight, although the individual fought very hard but the overall strength was not good, until the late eighties, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Deng Yaping era, at that time Chinese table tennis was the rising star, until now!! It is worth mentioning that Chinese table tennis mainly plays near Taiwan fast attack, European players are mainly in the middle and far Taiwan, arc ball and chipping ball, in fact, the Sino-European table tennis competition is the competition between near Taiwan fast break and curve ball, of course, many Chinese players The level of arc ball is not worse than that of foreign countries, and most of the outstanding players in China until now have a style of play that combines fast attack with curve ball.

The 13th World Table Tennis Championships before World War II.

After the first World Table Tennis Championships, table tennis attracted attention in a wider range. Romania, Yugoslavia, France and Japan (readmitted in '50-51) and Egypt joined the ITTF in the late twenties, and the United States, Australia and New Zealand joined in the thirties. By the time of the Second World War, the ITTF had 28 members and members.

However, most of the participating associations are from European countries, with the lowest number of only 7 and the largest being 18. The winners were confined to Europe, with Hungary being the most prominent, followed by Czechoslovakia. The only other continents are the United States and India, and most of the athletes are students living in the United Kingdom.

1939 year. For the first time, the World Table Tennis Championships was held outside of Europe, and table tennis expanded to the Middle East.

The women's team competition began in 1933-1934 with only teams from Hungary, Czech Republic, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and France.

During this period, the equipment, rules and table tennis techniques have undergone great changes

The first ITTF Congress adopted two trial scoring methods, one is tennis scoring and the other is 21 points. In 1928, it was established that the 21-point scoring system was used until today. In 1936, regulations were made for the playing time of a round and the flexibility of the table, and the net was lowered to the centimeter.

The appearance of hard balls and rubber rackets has increased the speed and spin of the ball, and some players have used the far table to cut the ball, and tried to attack the ball with forehand and backhand, and the technical level has continued to advance. At that time, American players used the movement of their fingers that did not hold the clap to increase the spin of the ball, and this method was limited by the rules.

The original table is narrow and the net is high, and the players' tactics are simple, mostly close to the table, and the flat block is the main defense. So much so that there was a "marathon".

World War II interrupted the World Table Tennis Championships for eight years.

Judging from the results of the competition, the men's team was eliminated.

Six, ten, ten.

Except for the first and thirteenth editions, Hungary won the championship in the remaining nine editions, Czechoslovakia won twice, and Austria and the United States won the championship once. Czechoslovakia won three women's team titles, Germany twice and the United States once. The most prominent individual is Hungary's Barna, who won five men's singles titles, eight doubles and two mixed doubles titles; The most prominent female player is Medjansky, who has won the first five women's singles titles and six women's doubles and six mixed doubles titles.

Table tennisIn 1959, after Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, Chinese athletes began to appear on the international table tennis stage. It has gradually formed a direct shooting and fast attack style with the technical style of "fast, accurate, ruthless, and change". In the 26th World Championships in 1961, the Chinese team not only passed the European barrier, but also defeated the Japanese players who played the "arc ball" style of play in the long draw of the far platform, and won the men's team world championship for the first time.

and won the twentieth in a row.

7. 28th Men's Team Champion. The advantages of China's fast attack near Taiwan are that it has a close position, fast speed, flexible movements, and is easy to use the forehand and backhand, which is a big step forward compared with Japan's long swing method. In the 60s, China's table tennis technology was at the forefront of the world, and the advantages of table tennis were transferred from Japan to China.

This is the second big improvement in the level of table tennis.

From the 25th World Table Tennis Championships in 1959, when Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship until today, Chinese table tennis has been prosperous for 50 years.

1926 1951 European heyday, 1952 1959 Japan heyday, 1959 1969 China, North Korea heyday, 1971 1979 European revival, China regrouped, 1981 1988, China heyday, China hit the world, 1991, China heyday, the world hit China.