According to a song once popular in Shanghai, a child and an old man, playing under a willow tree, kicked a shuttlecock into the heavens, raising the ire of the gods of thunder and lightning, who came down to see what was the fuss.
就在這般旖旎傳奇中，蹴踘由宮中「踢」到民間；從圓球「踢」到「以鉛錫為錢，裝以短羽」的現代毽子形式；「踢」過了漫長的一千八百年歲月。從前上海有首歌謠頗能表現玩毽的意興：「小孩子，老頭兒，柳蔭樹下踢毽子；