Another test, the Han Dynasty 100 popular show, saying all kinds of sports popular in the Han Dynasty, Chinese acrobatics, magic and music and dance, haiku excellent play, such as drama and animal. At that time, and there is no "100 Han Opera" the name, but most of the Qin Dynasty that followed the law, called "Kok arrived", such as "Kok arrived in theater," "odd angle arrived plays", "Kok arrived from the play "," 100 movie Kok arrived "and so on. "Han Dynasty opera 100" is the Eastern Han dynasty after the performances of these different forms of collectively. 100 is actually due to play a variety of acrobatic folk-oriented comprehensive skills so future generations are also used to play 100 as the predecessor of today's acrobatics.
Acrobatics called before the founding of the PRC, the 20th century until the early 50s, the Chinese delegation tours performances abroad, Premier Zhou Enlai during the review, to the Chinese acrobatic troupe named after, there is the acrobatic the title
公元前７７０年至前２２１年是中国的春秋战国时代，列国兼并激烈，群雄角逐，竞相养士，这些士中当然也有口把式，以出谋划策、能言善辩的说客为特征，但更多的是身怀奇技异巧或勇力过人的大力士。这些就为杂技艺术的正式形式。
另考，汉代流行的百戏，指流行于两汉的各类竞技、杂耍、幻术以及乐舞、俳优戏和动物戏等。当时，并没有“汉代百戏”的叫法，而是多半沿袭秦朝的称法，叫作“角抵”，如“角抵戏”、“角抵奇戏”、“角抵诸戏”、“角抵百戏”等。“汉代百戏”是东汉以后对上述不同艺术表演形式的统称。由于百戏实际上是以杂技为主导的多种民间技艺的综合串演，所以后人也习惯把百戏看成是今天杂技的前身。
杂技，建国前叫耍把戏，直到２０世纪５０年代初期，中国代表团组团到国外表演，周总理在进行审查时，给中国杂技团命名，此后，就有了杂技这一称谓