The Spiritual Substance of Sports Culture in the Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty, as a dynasty with a broad mind, had a cultural atmosphere that rendered every class. Tang Dynasty sports also presented colorful forms. Whether it was the scholar class or the commoner class, the unprecedented economic prosperity of the Tang dynasty and the cultural ****ing glory circle centered on Chang'an formed by the great integration of various nationalities greatly stimulated the Tang people's pursuit of sports culture again. Economic prosperity and social stability are the preconditions for the prosperity of sports culture in the Tang Dynasty.

It is an honor to have such an opportunity to talk about Tang Dynasty sports culture. From the high point of culture of an era, I often have the impulse, "It's time to write something!" , I would like to talk about a culture that the Tang people expressed through sport in this historical period. Not just a summary of this discipline, but more of a search for a culturally specific breakthrough in this era.

Instead of calling this course a history of Tang Dynasty sports culture, I think it is better to call it Tang Dynasty sports culture. In the historical background of the unprecedented economic prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and its broad-minded acceptance of the cultures of various nationalities, sports have existed as a symbol of culture in all aspects of Tang life. Sports is no longer a pure pastime, fitness for the purpose of activities, as a cultural form of pure in and built on the economic foundation of the superstructure, this kind of superstructure already has a fairly mature aesthetic ideology. For example, the sword dance in the performance of the art of behavior, cuju, swimming polo and other beautiful action, it is clear that people have been bush art aesthetic point of view of this kind of sports activities, once it has an aesthetic, will inevitably have an ideology, then it is not too much to call it a kind of culture, of course, this is my personal opinion only.

The study of the Tang Dynasty sports culture of this course, the most realistic significance is that it can be a more objective reflection of the people in the Tang Dynasty under the rule of a spiritual face, of course, this reflection and modern multimedia teaching and teacher ingenious way of teaching related to this article will not be discussed. Besides, there is a spirit which is the source of a traditional culture. In today's society, some of China's traditional culture is bearing the strong impact of foreign culture. Some young people have already had a rejection of traditional Chinese culture, which I think is the effect of "de-Chinaization" since the reform and opening up. Theoretically speaking, the spiritual life of modern people, especially young people, is quite rich, but why can't we have a strong cultural insight like the Tang Dynasty? Why can't we achieve an organic fusion between local and foreign cultures? Worth pondering, point taken.

"Looking at Chang'an" is some of the informational films that my teacher lets us watch before every class, and I like it so much that I came down to check out this cultural propaganda film, which is well worth a look for every Chinese person, especially teenagers. The producer of the film, Mr. Yang Xiaomin, was a guest on Sina Video Live, talking about the Tang culture, he said that "the culture built in Chang'an is called the Great East Asian Culture or Confucian Civilization, the Great Tang Culture Circle," he also said that "the Tang nation was very strong and open, China is the image of the empire, the open era, may be in the Chinese civilization, and the Chinese culture, the Chinese civilization, and the Chinese culture. He also said that "the Tang dynasty was a very powerful and open nation at that time, and China was an image of an empire, and that era of openness had probably never been experienced in the history of Chinese civilization", to which I would like to add, "nor has it been experienced even now". Indeed, the Tang dynasty's openness determined the prosperity of the Tang dynasty's sports culture, the Tang dynasty's openness in sports is realized in two aspects.

On the one hand, there were many different forms of sports in the Tang Dynasty, and this diversity was not only in the local forms of sports, but also in the absorption and assimilation of foreign forms of sports. I remember Du Fu once wrote a poem, the content is the performance of Gongsun Damiang sword dance, "the viewers such as the mountain color frustration, heaven and earth for a long time low ang!" This poem is very objective to describe the subjective feelings, you can appreciate from the poem Gongsun Damiang's kind of rugged beauty, which is known to be originated from a culture of the Hu people.

On the other hand, this openness is also reflected in a kind of unity between the scholar-class and the people as well as the openness to the gender of the sportsmen. The sports activities of the people are basically the same as those of the clan of scholars. By examining the history of sports in the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to realize that the sports activities of different classes are basically the same, and the only difference is the scale and size of the activities. Jun see, the Tang dynasty a standard polo factory is the size of three modern soccer fields, it is not difficult to imagine, the Tang dynasty held activities in full bloom. Exceptions, as mentioned above, the Tang dynasty sports culture has reached an unprecedented situation of openness to the gender, in modern Xi'an handicraft stores, you can see everywhere in the Tang dynasty ladies playing polo statues. There is also the Gongsun Damsel who dances with a sword instrument as depicted in Du Fu's writing. Imagine, in the Tang Dynasty, a dynasty of Confucian culture, such a sports phenomenon, and the people will be fully accepted and expressed through poetry, ceramics and other forms of art, can not help but admire the Tang Dynasty cultural openness.

Overall, the Tang Dynasty, with its unique open-mindedness, pushed sports to a cultural height. This is exactly the infinite space of reverie left by the Tang. In line with the knowledge and understanding of this course, a deeper analysis of sports culture in the Tang Dynasty this historical period, a cultural form, I think it is not in vain the teacher a piece of painstaking instruction, but also a kind of traditional culture of a noble salute!