How did sports originate?

The long history of mankind shows that sports will occur wherever humans are engaged in labor activities, whether in some countries with ancient civilizations or in isolated indigenous tribes. Sports originated from labor, and sports and labor coexist.

The living conditions of primitive humans were very harsh. Their main food is wild fruits and wild animals. People must develop the ability to run and jump well, and must have strong physical strength to survive.

The oldest sports of mankind are simple and practical activities such as walking, running, jumping, and throwing, or life skills. When humans learned to use tools, they also developed javelin and bow and arrow activities; when humans went to the water to fish and catch crabs, they also learned the skills of swimming and rowing.

With the improvement of production tools, various labor skills gradually became diversified and complicated. Primitive humans passed on these survival skills and experiences from generation to generation. This was the initial differentiation from life and labor skills. Out of the sports and educational complex. For example, the Ewenki people in the primeval forests of the Daxinganling Mountains in northeastern my country have always lived an isolated and primitive hunting life. The elders teach the younger generation skills such as high jumping, skiing, wrestling, and archery. The residents of Miranesia on the Pacific Islands let their children practice skills such as throwing guns, sticks, climbing trees, and digging soil from an early age. Many ancient human labor skills gradually formed modern sports after a long process of evolution. All these show that in the original labor education, the source of a sports has been opened.