Linzi Football Museum is the first professional football museum in the world. China Cuju culture, folk custom development, sports culture and the history of world football are condensed, which is a three-dimensional encyclopedia of football culture. On July 15, 2004, Mr Blatter, then president of FIFA, solemnly announced in Beijing that football originated in Linzi, Zibo. Linzi Football Museum is the first football museum in the world to fully display the origin and development history of football, and it is also the first professional football museum at home and abroad. Cuju in ancient China is the origin of modern football. It was born in the ancient State of Qi between Hai and Dai, which is now Zibo. Kick means "kick" and bow means "ball". Relying on a strong military material and cultural foundation, Cuju has gone through a development path that is almost consistent with the fate of feudal society with the rise and fall of feudal society. Great development was made in the Han Dynasty, which was the most prosperous in the Tang and Song Dynasties and began to decline in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Mainly popular among the people in the Qing Dynasty, it was only carried out in a few folk areas in modern times and still remains in Linzi area.
Linzi Football Museum is a two-story building, which is divided into ancient football and modern football. Entering the lobby on the first floor is a river of years, symbolizing the development process from cuju to football. Its development track constitutes the first letters "L" and "Z" of Chinese Pinyin in Linzi, and it is also the first letter "W" of the English word "World". On the one hand, its hatchback is the pattern of ancient cuju, on the other hand, it is the classic kicking action of modern football stars. The two correspond to each other, revealing the theme of the whole museum, that is, cuju is in Linzi and football is in the world. From north to south, the lobby on the first floor is the preface hall, the traceability hall, the origin hall, the development hall, the prosperity hall, the darkness hall and the influence exchange hall, which mainly reveal the development process of ancient football. The upstairs exhibition area is divided into three parts, first, the confirmation of the origin of football, then the modern and contemporary football in China, and finally the world football. The whole museum is rich in cultural relics and rich in information, displaying nearly 200 precious cultural relics and hundreds of historical pictures that are admired by the world, restoring more than 20 scenes, and you can see wonderful ancient Cuju performances here.
Since FIFA President Blatter officially declared Linzi as the birthplace of world football in Beijing in May 2005, Linzi has gained a fascinating business card to go global. Not only has the Linzi Football Museum, the world's first comprehensive and systematic exhibition of the development history of football for more than 2,000 years and the development characteristics of world football, been built, but it has also participated in a series of international competitions such as the closing ceremony of FIFA's centennial celebration and the "Charming Football Exhibition" in Hamburg, Germany, which greatly enhanced Linzi's popularity at home and abroad. In 2007, the iconic monument to the origin of football-"The Source of the Holy Ball" permanently settled in the FIFA headquarters building, which became a great witness for Linzi to go global.
Cuju is an ancient football sport in China. Cuju means kicking, Cuju is a ball, and Cuju means kicking. This is a sport and entertainment that has influenced China for more than two thousand years. On July 15, 2004, FIFA confirmed that the ancient cuju in China was the origin of football.
The historical traces of ball games in China can be traced back to thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, but cuju, which was the ancient capital of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was formed as a way of sports with clear rules of the game.
Cuju began to flourish in the Western Han Dynasty, and the first fanatical football fan appeared in China and even in the world.
With the evolution of solid bow to inflatable bow, the sphere becomes lighter, and the number of bows gradually increases, which is closer to a circle and very close to modern football.
In the development of ancient cuju in China, there were three basic forms of cuju: the direct confrontation of teams, the indirect confrontation of a single goal and the beating for nothing.
Cuju first spread eastward to Japan and Korea.
Cuju's greatest influence is that it has gradually developed into the most attractive first sports football in the world through external communication.
The historical traces of ball games in China can be traced back to thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, but it has formed a clear-cut game-Cuju, which was Linzi, the ancient capital of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Cuju's greatest influence is that it has gradually developed into the most attractive first sport in the world-football through external communication. FIFA President Blatter once said: Football originated in China, and then spread to Egypt, Greece, Rome, France, and finally to Britain.
On July 15, 2004, at the opening ceremony of the 3rd China International Football Expo, FIFA President Blatter officially announced that football originated in China. At the subsequent press conference, AFC Secretary-General Villafan officially announced on behalf of FIFA and AFC that world football originated in Linzi, Zibo, China. The AFC, the Literature and History Committee of the State Sports General Administration and the China Football Association officially awarded Zibo Linzi the "Football Origin" certificate and the commemorative cup. At this point, Linzi officially became the birthplace of world football. In September 2005, Linzi Football Museum was completed and opened.