By the Song dynasty, chuiwan had evolved into its final form, and reached the continued into the Yuan and Ming dynasties; in one Yuan-dynasty zaju drama, a character asks: "Do you dare to take me on at chuiwan and archery, to see which of us is the better?"
捶丸的形制到宋代發展完備，運動之盛更空前絕後。風氣及於元、明兩朝，元人雜劇《慶賞端陽》中就有道白：「你敢和我捶丸射柳，比試武藝麼？」