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| | All our Yesterdays |
 | | It is noteworthy that during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods there were actually acrobats who demonstrated their skills on a battlefield where two troops fought each other. |
 | | Xiong Yiliao of the Chu State was good at "juggling balls." Once, in a battle between the states of Chu and Song, the troops of the two sides were confronting each other in a fight at close quarters. |
 | | Lie Zi (The Book of Lie Zi), a philosophical work attributed to Lie Yukou of the Warring States Period, records that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Lan Zi, of the state of Song, presented a performance for the ruler. |
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