What is the origin of sports? How did sports originate

1 The development of sports is closely related to the development of education, military, science and technology, as well as people's religious activities and leisure and recreational activities. It must be pointed out that throughout its historical development, sport was governed by and served a certain political economy. The development of sports has gone through the following three periods: the primitive sprouting of sports; the period of consciously engaging in sports; and the period of forming and perfecting the sports system. After these three periods, the modern sports system was gradually formed; in which the development of competitive sports is the main driving force for the development of modern sports.

2 The term "physical education", according to the world sports data, the earliest is the French in 1760 in the French press on the issue of children's physical education of the paper first used (Education Physique<French>) is now commonly used internationally, "Physical Eduation", "Physical Eduation". "Physical Eduation" refers to "physical education" in general. Its original meaning is to refer to physical activity as a means of education, directly translated as physical education. The word "Sport" is generally considered to be derived from the Latin word "Disport", which originally meant to leave work to play, play, recreational activities, etc.. Later gradually formed a concept with a new meaning, namely - competitive sports (competitive sports).

3 China is the last hundred years from abroad to introduce the word "sports", sports history is generally believed to be the earliest foreign students from Japan. At that time, there was also the word "gymnastics" imported from Germany. After the founding of New China, the terms "sports" and "physical education" were used as the general concept or the first concept of sports. "Sports" has a broad and narrow sense of sports, sports theory circles have different views on its definition, at present the more common and more mass-based point of view is: it refers to the needs of human social life, based on the growth and development of the human body, the formation of movement skills and the body's ability to improve the law, to the body as a basic means of practice, to achieve the development of the body, enhance physical fitness, improve athletic performance, and to improve the quality of sports. The body, strengthen the physical fitness, improve the level of sports technology, enrich the social and cultural life of a conscious, purposeful, organized social activities, and its all the wealth formed in the development of human society.

China's modern sports, basically consists of: mass sports (mass sports, social sports), competitive sports, school sports, composed of three aspects.