What are the characteristics of traditional sports?

The first characteristic is propriety. "Rite" is the core category of China's traditional cultural value system and the main theme of civilization evolution. Confucius is a master of Chinese etiquette culture. He put forward "don't learn etiquette, don't stand up", and put everything into the orbit of etiquette, and sports and cultural activities are no exception. China ancient sports is an integral part of traditional culture. For example, in the "fifteen-pillar ball play" popular in the Tang Dynasty, the pillars were marked with red characters such as "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness, softness, courtesy, frugality, concession" and "pride, slowness, greed and abuse". The person who hits the red with a wooden ball wins, and the person who hits the black loses. This little game process fully expresses the moral norms and values in entertainment activities.

The second feature is both internal and external training. Confucian culture, as one of the main bodies of China traditional culture, takes "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world" as the practical method, thus achieving the ideal realm of "being sage inside and king outside". Influenced by this idea, ancient sports in China paid attention to self-cultivation and temperament cultivation, unlike ancient sports in the west, which pursued beauty, strength and speed. The ancient sports with the most records in ancient books in China are Wushu and health-preserving sports, both of which have profound philosophical thoughts, mature practice methods and perfect artistic image. Paying attention to martial arts morality, practicing both inside and outside, and having both form and spirit have always been the first essence of martial arts practitioners. Throughout the practice of Wushu, the traditional cultural spirit of self-improvement, self-cultivation and personality improvement is everywhere. Pleasing body and mind, venting emotions and flirting are also cultural functions of ancient Chinese sports, especially folk sports and women's sports.

The third feature is artistry. For example, in 1973, a painted pottery basin about 4500 years ago was unearthed in Datong County, Qinghai Province. On the inner wall of the pottery basin, there are three groups of dancers, five of whom are dancing. The ritual shooting in the Western Zhou Dynasty is not only a simple archery performance and competition, but also music with different grades, which can be said to be both an ancient sport and an ancient art, as well as the development of China Wushu. The original Wushu was mainly formed and developed in military wars. Later, he gradually left the army, became independent and self-sufficient, and became more and more artistic. Besides, other sports in ancient China, such as sword dancing, dragon boat rowing, swinging, cuju and skating, all pursued formal beauty and artistic expression.

Fourth, ancient sports in China lacked competitiveness. Mainly manifested in the lack of competitive sports and some sports that were originally competitive, and later became non-competitive sports. There is no national, comprehensive, long-term and institutionalized sports competition. Such as hunting, martial arts, swinging, martial arts, kicking shuttlecock, etc. There are no or few competitive competitions, mainly for others to see, or people's self-practice.

China traditional sports culture has the above four characteristics.