As early as the dawning period of ancient civilization, the production activities and other social practice of the ancients gave birth to the concept of  sports. In the Paleolithic Age millions of years ago to date, people began to have vague awareness of their own strength and desired to develop them, thus dancing, games and competitive activities came into being. Physical exercises became an important social activity with multi-significance, which enhanced the early development of ancinet sports.

The jade thumb-ring has a shape of a column with a hollow inside. Its upper end is higher than the lower one, thus forming a slope. The lower end keeps flat, mainly used to prevent from being cut by the taut bowstring in archery. This thumb-ring was an earlier endition in an archaeological discovery in China.

Silver cup with the design of horsemanship and archery. The belly of the cup is decorated with 4 pictures of horsemanship and archery. The riders are pulling the bows and aiming at the escaping rabbits in the grass, dotted with flowers, grasses and birds.