The background of the popularization of physical education courses in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China

The term sports is an imported product, the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, "Western sports" into China, the earliest gymnastics program appeared in 1877 in the establishment of a church school (of course, this is very different from the opium wars before the government and the military practice gymnastics). The eventual formation and development of physical education in China reflects the history of our country's continuous invasion in modern times, during which we have been fighting against the invasion of the Great Powers in an attempt to strengthen and protect ourselves, while at the same time absorbing foreign advanced ideas and being influenced by foreign European and American cultures. At the same time, the development of sports was also closely related to the guiding ideology of the government at that time. Despite the social unrest at that time made its development particularly difficult, but it is still in the school sports, competition, public sports exercise it has been a great development.