Prehistoric Chongqing people s stone balls won by bronze bells from the British and shuttlecocks played by Beckham

On July 17, the Chongqing Sports Museum, which has been in preparation for more than three years, will open. Although Chongqing has only 28 years of history as a municipality, Chongqing Sports has a record history of more than a hundred years. More than 10,000 collections, medals shining with the luster of time, old photos of freezing blood moments, some hide super-burning stories of turning the tables against the wind, embodying the shouts of the whole city; some record the inspiring time of perseverance and show the characteristics of the city's spirit.

The six exhibition areas record Chongqing sports footprints

The Chongqing Sports Museum is built next to the parachuting tower of Datianwan Stadium in Yuzhong District. This site has a profound meaning. As the parachuting tower of Chongqing sports landmark building, it itself is a very meaningful sports cultural relic. The sports museum is shaped like a blue streamer, with a parachuting tower as a flagpole, floating to the distance.

staff told reporters that the Chongqing Sports Museum began to be built in March 2022. After more than three years of exhibit collection and nearly one year of construction, it is finally going to face the public. The Chongqing Sports Museum has a construction area of 2,000 square meters, and its collection information is about 10,000 pieces (sets). The reporter saw that the museum had six exhibition areas: "Sports activities between Bashan and Chongqing", "Sports after Chongqing's opening", "Sports after the liberation of Chongqing", "Sports after the liberation of Chongqing", "Sports development after the reform and opening up", and "Sports glory in Chongqing's new era".

The exhibition hall of "Sports Activities Between Bashan and Yushui" talks about sports activities in the Bayu region in ancient times. The oldest exhibit is a stone ball used for entertainment and play during the Zhongba culture period of the Neolithic Age. It is about the size of a table tennis ball and comes from the Wushan Museum. In addition, there are bronze swords from the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period, fitness pottery figurines from the Han Dynasty, etc.

"Sports after Chongqing's opening" tells the story of the sports outline from the opening of Chongqing in 1891 to 1949. Here are both bronze bells won by Guangyi Middle School students from the British, as well as various physical sports medals from the Republic of China period. The first Chongqing Games was held in 1936. At that time, there were almost no professional athletes in Chongqing. The contestants were mainly students from various universities and middle schools, and the location was Chongqing University. The championship medal is quite special, like an arrow shape. The exhibition hall of "Sports Foundation Layment after the Liberation of Chongqing" mainly displays information and medals from seven people including Li Baiyu, Chen Jiaquan, He Zufen. Next to it is a statue of He Long, and President He excitedly kicks off for the football match.

"Sports Development after Reform and Opening Up" tells the story of sports achievements from reform and opening up to Chongqing's direct jurisdiction. Five of the volleyballs are eye-catching, this is the signature volleyball of all the five women's volleyball teams in the 1980s during the glorious period of the five consecutive championships. You can see the signatures of Sichuan and Chongqing female volleyball players such as Liang Yan, Zhu Ling, and Wu Dan.

The "Sports Glory of Chongqing's New Era" exhibition area displays the sports achievements after Chongqing's direct jurisdiction. Li Xuerui and Shi Tingmao's Olympic gold medals are particularly eye-catching. In addition, the women's volleyball Olympic champion Yuan Xinyue donated the team uniform, and the artistic gymnastics Olympic champion Ding Xinyi donated the competition tools and the ball.

Technology makes sports history come alive

The staff told reporters that the Chongqing Sports Museum's cutting-edge technology creates an immersive exhibition experience, making the century-old sports history "live". In addition to physical exhibits carrying the glory of time, there are multiple themed interactive areas in the exhibition hall, which will rejuvenate sports culture in interaction.

Walking into the Sports Museum, I saw a naked 3D screen, playing a promotional video of Chongqing Sports. Taking time as the context, the origin and evolution of Chongqing's sports spirit are vividly interpreted through five chapters of narrative scrolls. As a newly built museum, high technology is fully applied here. The reporter saw in the museum that a shooting game was set up next to the exhibition area introducing Chongqing football. A large screen is a goal. On the screen is a goalkeeper. The audience can kick the football in front of the screen towards the goal. The goalkeeper will respond to the audience's kicking movements and save the football. Although they are close, ordinary people may not be able to overcome the goalkeeper's reaction quickly. In the Chongqing Go Exhibition Area, a Go board is set up where viewers can play against AI robots in one game. Unlike Go programs like AlphaGo, this is a physical robot that can truly make moves. Yang Yi, former director of Chongqing Chess Academy, excitedly tested the level of robots, believing that robots have the level of Go enthusiasts and can fight with ordinary people for a long time. In the boxing exhibition area, a boxing sandbag is set up, and one punch can test your punching power.

Walking into the tail hall is an immersive interactive experience project of "Travel to the Mountain City". The reporter put on VR equipment and walked into Chongqing more than 100 million years ago. This is the Jurassic full of dinosaurs. He can not only feel the magnificence of the primeval forest, but also avoid the pursuit of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Crossing the time and space gate, I came to the lawn of Datian Bay Stadium, and looking around, there were dense seats and tall buildings outside the stadium. The sound of fans roaring and thundering in my ears, as if I had returned to the passionate years of A-A. Wearing a VR device, you can have a stretch ball and boxing match with virtual people, and you can also experience single paddling in the river.

In addition, there are special VR interactive projects such as "Two-person Skydiving", "Mountain City Track Motorcycle", and "Almighty Magic Battlefield". Through high-precision motion capture technology, it accurately conveys the weightlessness of two-person skydiving, the drifting of track motorcycles, and the competitive spirit of magic battlefields. The reporter deeply felt that these digital technologies have allowed sports culture to go out of the display cabinet and become a link connecting history and the present, making the spirit of sports more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with the empowerment of technology.

It is worth mentioning that the customized cultural and creative product "Datianwan Impression" series of Chongqing Sports Museum is also sold in the museum. The reporter saw that there are Datianwan Impression Canvas Bags, Custom Bookmarks, Car Aromatherapy, etc., each piece is a materialization of sports spirit, representing the passion and glory of Chongqing Sports.. The story behind the exhibits

In the Chongqing Sports Museum, there are 30 ancient weapons of Huayan Temple in the Qing Dynasty, replicas of the bronze bell won by Guangyi Middle School students from British sailors, the shuttlecock kicked by Beckham, the hand-painted Datian Bay blueprint 70 years ago, and the old flag of "Chongqing Xiongqi"... Each exhibit is a hot mountain city sports history. The audience takes a hundred years and their blood is instantly full.

Ancient Weapons of Huayan Temple

Chongqing Huayan Temple contains a little-known martial arts culture. The existing Bodhidharma Yijin Jing inheritance museum in Huayan Temple, which has inherited the unique knowledge of "Bodhidharma Yijin Jing". Tai Chi inherited by Huayan Temple is an intangible cultural heritage. It can not only strengthen the body, but also fight against skills and practice both inside and outside. On March 10, 2023, Huayan Temple donated 30 ancient weapons to the Chongqing Sports Museum, including knives, guns, swords, halberds, whips, maces, sticks, sticks, etc. Most of these weapons were produced during the Qing Dynasty, and basically showed the full picture of the "Eighteen Weapons" of traditional Chinese martial arts, carrying a profound traditional martial arts culture.

The bronze bell won from the British

In 1905, Guangyi Middle School moved to the new campus at the Wenfeng Tower in Nanquan. With manpower, he opened mountains and moved stones and made a standard football field. Two years later, it formed the first regular football team in western China with uniforms and sneakers, "Guangyi Middle School Football Team". One day in 1933, the British warship "FALCON" sailors came to Guangyi Middle School to participate in a football match they had been waiting for for a long time. In front of the "Fukang" team, which has a strong strength in physical confrontation, the "Guangyi" team played a smooth "Chinese football" and finally defeated the "Fukang" team 7:0. After the game, the British sailors presented a bronze bell on the ship to the Guangyi Middle School football team. This bronze bell is still treasured by Guangyi Middle School and has a replica in the Chongqing Sports Museum.

Women's Volleyball World Cup Championship Trophy

In 1985, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the fourth Women's Volleyball World Cup championship. The coach at that time was Deng Ruozeng, a native of Chongqing. In February 2024, Deng Ruozeng donated a series of collections to the Chongqing Sports Museum. Deng Ruo, 87, recalled, "The conditions were not as good as it is now. They were very difficult and used very rustic methods. The millet and rifles mentioned before, we used barbell and hard work, and we all rely on ourselves to find ways to create conditions to achieve results."

The shuttlecocks kicked by Beckham

National shuttlecock competition champion Deng Dan once taught Beckham to play shuttlecock. In June 2022, she donated all her collections of shuttlecocks to the Chongqing Sports Museum. In March 2013, Beckham learned to kick shuttlecock with her once. Deng Dan said that Beckham first tried the action of catching shuttlecock with his left and right thighs, similar to football bumping. He had excellent ball skills and smoothly beat 5 times and passed the first level. The second level is to use the outside of your right foot to collect the shuttlecock, and Xiao Bei succeeded again. In the third level, first drop the shuttlecock from his hands to his feet, then kick it hard, cross the top of his head, and catch it from behind with the soles of his feet. Xiao Bei did this action three times, but failed.

Fire-fighting Motorcycle

The forest fire in the summer of 2022 has made many Chongqing people remember the mountain knights who put out the fire. In September 2022, Long Jie (Long Mazi), who participated in the firefighting, donated the motorcycles used during the disaster relief process to the Chongqing Sports Museum. The motorcycle was damaged and scrapped during the firefighting process. There was still a lot of dust and mud on the car, and the body of the car was sprayed with Arabic numerals 26. Other teammates of Long Jie's team donated helmets, racing suits and boots used during the firefighting process. These collections not only carry the valuable memories of the "Shancheng Knight" represented by Long Jie in major events, but also greatly enrich the content and spiritual connotation of the Chongqing Sports Museum's collection. The "Chongqing Rises" flag

The sports museum that seems to have nothing to do with most people actually carries the passionate memories of countless people. For example, exhibits about Chongqing football and exhibits of Chongqing fans. In the exhibition hall, the reporter saw the Chongqing Lifan team winning the trophy of the FA Cup, the trophy of the China League One, as well as the "Chongqing Rises" flag and the loudspeaker of fans cheering. Major fan organizations in Chongqing donated collections to the sports museum. The "Chongqing Xiongqi" flag donated by the Chongqing Football Fans Association was produced in 1991 and has been fighting in various arenas with Chongqing football for more than 30 years.

Visiting Guide

Chongqing Sports Museum is located next to the parachuting tower next to Datianwan Stadium. It is open from 9:00 to 17:00 every Tuesday to Sunday. July 17 to 31 is the trial business period. During this period, the online reservation system is implemented. You can make an appointment in the "Guide Service" column at the bottom column of the WeChat official account of "Chongqing Sports Museum". It will be officially opened from August 1st, and audiences can enter the museum without reservation with valid ID documents. In terms of transportation, you can take the light rail line 1 or Line 3 to the two intersection station and exit from the entrance and exit No. 5. You can navigate to the underground parking lot of Daejeon Stadium by yourself.

Upstream News-Chongqing Morning Post reporter Liao Ping