乒乓球运动诞生大约有一百周岁了。但是我们应该确切地在什么时候来庆祝它的一百周年呢?可能人们第一次将这项运动作为“游戏”玩的时候,用的是临时凑成的器材,并且也没有正式比赛规则,时间大约在十九世纪八十年代,但是要准确地确定其产生的时间是太模糊了。在十九世纪八十年代以前,当时只申报过几项运动项目的专利,但都没有准确的日期。其中以大卫·伏斯特商行(英国)在1890年12月24日所组织的板球、 Table tennis was born about a hundred years old. But when should we celebrate its one hundredth anniversary exactly? Perhaps the first time people used the game as a “game”, it used improvised equipment and no formal competition The rules, dated around the 1880s, but it is too obscure to accurately determine when they were generated. Prior to the 1980s, only a few sports patents were filed at the time, but none of them had an accurate date. Of these, cricket organized by David Foster (UK) on December 24, 1890,