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When did acrobatics first appear?
Acrobatics has a long history in China. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, countries merged fiercely and competed to train scholars. Of course, some of these scholars are eloquent, characterized by persuasive lobbyists, but more are Hercules with peculiar skills or extraordinary courage. These are the formal forms of acrobatic art.

Hundreds of dramas in the Han Dynasty refer to all kinds of competitions, acrobatics, magic, music and dance, excellent dramas and animal dramas popular in the Han Dynasty. At that time, there was no title of "Hundred Dramas in the Han Dynasty", but most of them followed the titles of the Qin Dynasty, namely "Jiao Xidi", "Jiao Diqi Xi", "Jiao Judy Xi" and "Jiao Dibai Xi". "Hundreds of dramas in Han Dynasty" is the general name of the above-mentioned various artistic performances after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because Baixi is actually a comprehensive performance of various folk skills dominated by acrobatics, later generations are used to seeing Baixi as the predecessor of acrobatics today.

After 160 years of turmoil in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the great integration of national culture, acrobatic art was extremely mature until the Sui Dynasty unified China in 589 AD, and it became a popular art of the court and the people in the Tang Dynasty. Bianliang (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Lin 'an (now Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, had various performance places in the streets and markets, which were then called Wazi Music Shed. Acrobatics, dance, martial arts, and storytelling all kinds of physical performing arts, performing together and observing each other, undoubtedly promoted the formation of China's unique traditional opera art, but in the Yuan Dynasty, because the dramatists and acrobats performed in the same place at that time, they matured in the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty. Researchers believe that "Zaju" has this name.

Traditional performing arts such as acrobatics and dancing in Ming and Qing Dynasties were rarely performed in the court, and acrobats in Qing Dynasty were further reduced to Jianghu. However, China's traditional operas flourished, forming a prosperous scene dominated by martial arts. In the Qing Dynasty, acrobats lived a miserable life. In a difficult environment, they maintained and developed their own art and made new creations in "pedaling skills" and "ancient color tricks". The juggling jar, sword, Dan, pill, bean and other series of illusions have reached a higher level.

Nowadays, we can still see various forms of acrobatics through the media such as movies and television. In the arena, we can see handstands, top bowls, juggling and animal training similar to the hundred plays in the Han Dynasty. On the stage, we can also see the graceful dances of dancers and the humorous performances of clowns, which are similar to the hundred plays of the Han Dynasty.