In the 5th century BC, people in china played a game called ti jian zi (translated to 'kicking the shuttle'). The objective of this game was to keep the shuttle from hitting the ground without using your hands. Whether this game has anything to do with the origins of badminton is up for debate. It was however the first game that uses a shuttlecock.
The original game of Battledore and Shuttlecock originating for England, involved two people hitting a shuttlecock backwards and forwards. Children would use paddles (also known as Battledores) and work together to keep the shuttlecock up in the air and off the ground.
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