Mainland author Gu Mingtang, in a book about Chinese sports and games, writes that during the Ming dynasty chuiwan went into a decline. He ascribes its dwindling popularity to a "lack of courses to play on."
大陸出版的《鬥草藏鉤》一書作者顧鳴塘指出，明朝捶丸遊戲已逐漸走下坡，「場地的限制」則是捶丸逐漸冷卻，並未廣泛流行的原因。