Yibing Zhu project: timeline

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Timeline summary:

5th century BC The first known version of was in the 5th century BC in China.The name ti jian zi, means simply ‘kick shuttlecock’ (‘ti’ = kick, ‘jian zi’ = little shuttlecock).

207-906 The matches of Shuttlecock were popular in the times of the dynasties of Han and of Song (207-906)

7th century “” in Japanese means, “strike the with the foot”. This game came from China sometime around the

7th century. 960-1278 the Song Dynasty (960-1278) the game was renamed to Chien Tsu, from the Chinese word for “ar- row” that sounds precisely as the word “shuttlecock”.

10th century In Indonesia, the Shuttlecock game is called “Bola Bulu Tangkis”. It’s similar to the one that is played in . The game is known since the 10th century.

1933 The first national competition of Shuttlecock took place in 1933 in China . In 1933, in Nanjing in the fifth National meeting, playing Jianzi, wrestling, and so on were defined as the National Sports formerly.

1936 a Chinese athlete from the province of Jiangxu performed a demonstration in the of in

1936. Germany and other countries were so impressed, that they began to learn and play the demon- strated .

1961 a movie called “The flying feather” was finished by the central news movie company.

1984 shuttlecock is an Official . In 1984, an enthusiastic team of fans founded in Hong-Kong, the Amateur Union of Shuttlecock.

1991 In Germany shuttlecock was discovered by Peter von RüdenHe founded FFC Hagen on 1 September 1991, the first European shuttlecock club.

1992 Peter von Rüden had a shuttlecock show at the Travel ’92 exhibition in March 1992. 1994 this union was reformed and renamed to “Hong Kong Association of Shuttlecock” (HKSA).

1995 Hong-Kong organised the International Championships of Shuttlecock.

2002 In 2002 creates the Greek Federation of Shuttlecock and the first GreekTeams.

2002 The story of shuttlecock in really started in 2002 with the curiosity of Guillaume Destot.

2003 on August 11th 2003 delegates from , France, Germany, , , and Ser- bia founded the Shuttlecock Federation of (S.F.E.), in Ujszasz (Hungary).

2009 After being invented in 2009, Chinese JJJ got much faster spreading all over China due to its tech- niques similar to soccer sport, its simple skills friendly to beginners and its fun for skilled players.

2010 In June 2010, Chinese JJJ’s “The First Beijing Invitational Tournament” held successfully, having participation by foreign players such as “German Shuttlecock King” Martin, who was a former profes- sional soccer player before studying in Beijing.

May 2011 there were foreign players of more than 10 countries played the game, proving firmly the game’s at- tractiveness to soccer players.

August 2011 an American company released a toy called Kikbo based on jianzi. Timeline I like:

3 directions:

1. interesting, sporting, linear

2. modern, clear, sharp contrast

3. classic, linear, simple Rough draft:

Final:

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