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Well, based on what I know about modern Chinese history (and as someone else mentioned in another thread), all martial arts was banned by the government after WW2 (from the 1950s until the 1980s) as a precaution against social instability. I mean banned in the sense that you could literally be arrested if you were caught practicing any martial arts. So it is hard to imagine that there was any kind of organized competition or ruleset that existed before the government decided to develop Sanshou in the 80s. Perhaps before WWII, but I'm pretty no one in China would refer to anything other than what was developed in the 80s when they say Sanda or Sanshou.
perhaps they did not refer to it as sanshou, but I believe the past-time of lei tai fighting (on a raised platform no boundaries) goes back a long time. There was no ground. I think just strikes and clean take downs, or push guy off platform.