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							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Chinese yo-yo has a history reaching back two to three thousand years.  Cao Cao </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">曹操</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Cáo Cāo (155 - 220 AD), a famous general and poet who lived during the Three Kingdoms era, wrote a poem called &quot;Kongzhu Fu&quot; </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">《空竹赋》</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">or Chinese yo-yo composition. </font>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is great exercise, but it can also be used as a form of relaxation. The gentleman on the first page was almost meditative and appeared to make moves more like taijiquan. The players above and below demonstrate that it is a full body exercise.</font></p>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our own yo-yo is an adaptation of one from the Philippines.  It may have had roots to the Chinese version, but, if so, the link is lost in antiquity.</font></p>
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