What are the traditional sports?

Speaking of "traditional sports", ordinary people will naturally associate it with "martial arts", and at most, they may add some sports activities such as archery, wrestling, qigong, meditation, Ba Duan Jin, Yijinjing, etc. (including medical and health sports). In fact, this understanding seems to be not comprehensive and scientific enough. It should be understood as: the sports activities handed down from ancient times by all ethnic groups in China (including sports created by all ethnic groups themselves and gradually evolved by absorbing relevant contents from other ethnic groups and foreign countries), that is, all the contents contained and handed down from ancient sports history.

At present, there are different views on how to classify traditional sports. There are two main classification methods:

(1) Dichotomy:

It can be divided into static sports (such as Qigong, meditation, gargling, diet and hygiene habits, including Tai Ji Chuan, Yijinjing, Baduanjin, chess, etc. ) and dynamic exercise (mostly characterized by intense physical activity).

(2) trigonometry:

(1) Military sports. Including martial arts (martial arts), archery, wrestling, cuju, clapping, hook boxing and so on. , all from or related to military skills;

② Physical activities to keep fit. Including repercussive dance, introduction, qigong, health preservation, wuqinxi, manual labor, Tai Ji Chuan, feeding, hygiene habits and other projects;

③ Recreational and game sports. Dance, acrobatics, chess, dragon boats, swings and other ethnic folk games and sports activities. Not only fitness, but also entertainment.

Of course, there are also unclear boundaries and both attributes. The latter classification seems to be more subtle and more real.

No matter what kind of division, it shows that traditional sports have an important historical position in the historical development of sports in China. Many sports in traditional sports, such as Wushu, Qigong, boxing, wrestling and other fitness activities, still maintain strong vitality, which shows the great contribution of traditional sports to human sports.