Quietly, winter has slipped away and the spring breeze has blown away the bitter cold of winter. People who have passed the lonely winter begin stirring, especially after several days of parties with friends and relatives during the spring festival, many people found their bodies become much heavier. Therefore，body-building and slimming begin to be put on the agenda, and the parks that have kept silent for a winter become to be lively again. In a word, all people begin to choose suitable workout in the spare time. Early morning in the park, the buzzing sound along with the bird tweet is from diabolo-one Chinese traditional body-building sport-diabolo. All People who play the diabolo look refreshing and in good fit, arm lifting or jumping, all show energetic vigor. Diabolo, also called bell dancing, is one kind of sports to play a dumbbell shape roller with one long line. With the history of more than 2000 years, this sport is the representative of ancient Chinese national sports.
Diabolo is commonly known as the wind gourd; it was an elegant behavior for young women to play diabolo in ancient times, and in modern times it is regarded as excellent skill for young women to play it. Diabolo juggling stands for the quintessence of Chinese culture in the acrobatic show, and has shown all over the world and earned many praises; in 1986, it was awarded “gold award of tomorrow acrobatic arts festival of the Republic of France”, which earned great honors for china. Diabolo is made from bamboo, hollow, hence its name. “Diabolo juggling” is one representative of Chinese traditional acrobatics that can be trained with superb artistry out of simple, small and casually available objects. It is originally one very interesting folk game, people, especially children in the north like to play them at festivals and could show many tricks.
Seeming like a very simple upper limb sport, thediabolo juggling is actually a whole-body sport, which can be completed by good coordination of the four limbs.
Diabolo can be divided into single wheel (one end of wood beam is disc) and double wheels (one disc for each end of the wood beam).Double-wheel diabolo is easier to operate than the single-wheel diabolo. Timbres of Whistles around the disc are different. When shaking the diabolo, all whistles will produce sounds simultaneously, resounding and forceful, seems like soaring to the skies.
Our country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, this heritage was listed inthe first batch state-level intangible cultural heritagelist with the approval of the State Council. On June 5, 2007, determined by the Ministry of Culture, Zhang Guoliang and Li Lianyuan, Xuanwu District of Beijing, were chose as the representative inheritance people of this cultural heritage project, and was listed in the 226 inheritance people list of the first batch state-level intangible cultural heritage projects.
