The origin of the Olympic Games is very early, what are the aspects of the performance of the characteristics of the ancient Olympic Games?

The performance of the characteristics of the ancient Olympic Games has three aspects:

First, the ancient Olympic Games is to worship the gods as the main, colorful content, is a variety of forms of the whole of Greece comprehensive event. Including the worship of the god Zeus, pilgrimage, birthday wishes to the gods, poets reciting works orators delivering speeches, market trade and other activities, sports only as one of the contents.

Secondly, the ancient Olympic Games are part of the culture of the Greek peoples, which played a positive role in uniting the peoples, maintaining national unity, reducing and stopping wars, and politics have a very close relationship.

Third, by the ancient Greek customs, artistic style, geographical environment and material production and other factors, "naked sports" is a major feature. Competition, the requirement of naked athletes coated with olive oil, in order to make the body glittering in the sunlight, muscle more elastic, more athletes to show the fitness of the body, so that people get a kind of enjoyment of beauty.

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The ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, to 394 AD, after 1168 years, *** held 293 sessions. According to its origin, prosperity and decline, roughly divided into three periods.

1, 776 BC to 388 BC. In 776 BC, Iphitus, the ruler of Peloponnesus, endeavored to integrate religion and sports. He not only innovated religious ceremonies, but also organized large-scale sports competitions, which he decided to hold every four years.

The time was set after the summer solstice in leap years. So the Ancient Olympic Games of 776 BC were officially recorded in history as the 1st of the ancient Olympic Games. At that time, there was only one event, the field run, which covered a distance of 192.27 meters.

2. 388 BC to 146 BC, began to decline. Due to the prolonged Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens (431 B.C.E. to 404 B.C.E.), the power of the Greek state was greatly diminished, and Macedonia gradually annexed Greece. The Macedonian monarch Philip also participated in the horse race himself. Subsequently, although Emperor Alexander himself was not fond of sports activities, he still actively supported them and regarded the Olympic Games as the highest sports activities in ancient Greece.

3, 146 BC to 394 AD, the ancient Olympic Games from decline to destruction. After the Roman Empire ruled Greece, at first, although still held the Games, but Olympia is not the only competition. After the 2nd century AD, Christianity ruled the whole of Europe, including Greece, advocating asceticism, advocating the separation of spirit and flesh, and opposing sports, so that Europe was in a dark age, and the Olympic Games also declined, until the name of the real dead.

In 393 A.D., the Roman Emperor Theodosius I declared Christianity to be the state religion, and considered the ancient Olympic Games to be contrary to Christianity's teachings and a pagan activity, and in the following year announced the abolition of the ancient Olympic Games. In 895 A.D., the Byzantines and the Goetheans fought a fierce battle on the Alpheus River, which resulted in the destruction of all the facilities at Olympia.

Theodosius II burned down the remnants of the Olympia buildings in 426 AD. In 522 and 511 A.D., two strong earthquakes occurred one after another, causing Olympia to be completely destroyed. Thus, the ancient Olympic Games, which had lasted for more than 1,000 years, ceased to exist, and the prosperous Olympia was reduced to ruins.

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