However, in the big category of China's ancient history, physical education is indispensable. So how did the ancients play with sports culture? This article will take you to explore.
In fact, looking through ancient books, we will find that there is no word to describe "sports" in ancient times. In short, there was no such word as sports.
However, there are martial arts in the ancient imperial examination system in Chinese history, and all kinds of martial arts have far-reaching influence. In fact, this is the epitome of modern sports. China was deeply influenced by Confucian culture in ancient times, so China's sports culture also has a very distinctive Confucian spirit.
First of all, there is a spirit of "courtesy" in it. As we know, almost all cultures in ancient China can be divided into the track of ceremony.
Therefore, sports culture has become a carrier of propaganda and existence with the traditional spirit of Confucianism. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, a game called "fifteen-pin ball game" was popular.
On the fifteen pillars of this game, there are some good spirits such as benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, and some bad characters such as arrogance and greed. If you hit a good adjective in this sports activity, you will win. This small-scale sports activity can show people's moral norms and values at that time.
Confucianism pays attention to both internal and external cultivation, so sports activities in ancient history have this spirit. Sports activities in our ancient history were not as explosive and powerful as those in the west.
Generally speaking, it is mainly euphemistic and implicit, so our traditional sports activities, such as martial arts or some health exercises, are soft and hard. In the process of practicing this sport, we should constantly improve our personality and emphasize the role of a sports culture.
While carrying out sports in ancient times, it was also the promotion of art and aesthetics. Our ancient sports, such as salute or sword dance, have a kind of physical beauty and action beauty in it.
It can even be seen from the stone carvings in some traditional relics. At the same time, due to the development of ancient productive forces and the limitation of people's physical conditions, the ancient sports in China were generally medium, that is, there were few competitive sports.
Moreover, due to the restrictions of population, transportation and living habits, some hunting and martial arts competitions are generally developed, which is generally not very utilitarian.
However, as a leisure activity or entertaining itself at ordinary times, and unlike the West, it has no large-scale sports arena, is not so popular or popular, and is more popular with the ruling class.
However, we should realize that China's relatively moderate and conservative sports activities in ancient history make China's sports activities lag behind other countries to some extent.
However, our physical conditions make us good at and have many world-class sports activities. Ancient sports culture, when the ancients were exercising, brought us a spiritual wealth.
The traditional sports activities in ancient times were not only closely related to the feudal rule and mainstream thoughts at that time, but also to cultivate people's self-cultivation.
Maintaining feudal rule and exercising, so the utilitarianism or competitiveness of sports activities in ancient history is not as strong as that in modern times, but it still plays an irreplaceable role in other cultures.
What we need to do in modern times is to maintain some ancient sports culture that has been replaced, so that our country's sports culture has its own national characteristics, take its essence and discard its dross. In the process of inheriting and understanding the traditional sports culture in history, we will constantly enhance our cultural influence and build a harmonious family.