Verifying The Polo Game Of Tang Dynasty

Polo is one of the oldest ball games in the world. Between the 6th and 9th century, it was so popular in Asia. At the Tang Dynasty, Polo was supported and made great progress, for it became a favorite sport of royalties'. At that time, there were so many squares of this sport all over the country and Polo became a symbol of fashion. Lots of emperors of Tang Dynasty were good at this game. They loved it very much and even some of them died for it. After all, what were the real scenes of the Polo game at the Tang Dynasty? How did the Polo game popular at that time? What made Polo so glamorous to be the most fashionable sport? This thesis summed up the previous studies, united The whole Tang poetry , The Complete works of Essays of Tang Dynasty , General History of System , Tang Hui Yao, made a meticulous inference and a textual criticism about the Polo game at the Tang Dynasty and tried to reappear the grand occasions of the game, based on the researches of the New and Old Books of the Tang Dynasty, the New and Old Books of the Five Dynasty, History of Song Dynasty , History of Liao Dynasty , History of Jin Dynasty and the utilization of Dunhuang Documents, frescoes in the mausoleums of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, this thesis analyzed the reasons for Polo's fashionable at Tang Dynasty by three aspects--financial condition, political affairs and cultural events. We hope that the experiences and moral drawn form these will be great promotion to the development of our country's sports enterprise.