The Fitness Role and Significance of Traditional Chinese Health Sports

Ancient Chinese sports have a long history, and their beginnings can be traced back to the barbaric times of prehistory. With the development of prehistoric human social production, changes in social life and the progress of human culture, sports such as ball games, archery, jousting, combat, and even health care and wellness sports, as well as a variety of sports equipment related to later sports programs, began to take shape. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, the main characteristics of the forms of sports activities were reflected in their educational, military and civil aspects. During the Qin-Han-Three Kingdoms period, ancient Chinese sports embarked on a period of initial prosperity. In summary, the sports activities at this time is larger, and began to gradually evolve into several major with a variety of forms, more stable activity system. With the establishment of the unified empire of the Sui and Tang dynasties and the people's social life began to stabilize, especially the feudal rulers of the military and military (including martial arts) system of attention, a strong impetus to the full flourishing of sports activities, the emergence of the ancient Chinese sports history of the heyday situation. With the cultural exchanges between various ethnic groups in China and between Chinese and foreign ethnic groups, many traditional Chinese sports, such as ball games, sumo wrestling, and Go, spread overseas, and many of the imported forms of sports influenced and enriched the diverse forms of sports in ancient China, such as skill. Such exchanges played a great role in promoting the development of human sports culture. Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan period, with the boom of civic culture, the prosperity of the towns and cities, to promote the development of fitness, recreation as the main body of sports activities, the traditional forms of sports further penetrate into the folk. As of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sports showed two prominent features: one can say that this period is the period of the great summary of ancient sports; the second is the rapid increase in the number of people to participate in sports activities, is an unprecedented period of active folk sports.

Despite several challenges, ancient Chinese sports have always been inherited and have shown great regenerative capacity. Ancient Chinese sports culture, created by the various nationalities *** with, which embodies both the culture of the Central Plains, the grassland national culture and the southern waters of the national culture of the characteristics of the sports content, but also prevalent in the successive generations of folk festivals and court in the form of folk sports. The rich and colorful ancient traditional sports culture shows the wisdom and bravery of the Chinese nation, embodies the nation's martial arts and brutal health, but also the pursuit of the perfection of human nature of the nation. It shows that the "Great Wall of Ancient Sports Culture" is constructed by all Chinese nationalities*** together, which y influences the overall development of Chinese ancient sports and shows the vitality and vigor of its development and change. Generated and developed in the traditional cultural atmosphere of ancient Chinese society, the thousands of years-long history of the development of ancient Chinese sports is unrivaled in the world in terms of its long history, richness of its content, completeness of its ways and means, and the wide range of activities it has carried out. From the perspective of the development of ancient sports in the world, ancient Chinese sports occupy an important position, and many forms of sports activities, such as ball games, martial arts, health care, jousting, skills, water and ice activities, chess, and certain "track and field" projects, etc., can be found in the sports activities of the world's countries in the form of a similar or common, which is not only the pride of the Chinese nation, but also for the subsequent development of the Chinese people. This is not only the pride of the Chinese nation, but also contributed to the later popularization of the world Olympic movement. As a vivid chapter in the history of world sports, it will always be in the history books.