Study Of Sports Supplements During The War Against Japan(1937--1945)

As an important part of modern newspapers,supplements assumed the responsibility of satisfying readers with literary and leisurely content.Since October 1923,when the supplement "Education and Life(Weekly)" opened a sports section,the sports supplement also became one of the columns of the comprehensive newspaper.1937 saw the outbreak of the Total War of Resistance against Japan,and many large domestic sports events were halted due to the war,and as a result,most newspapers cancelled their sports pages.However,during the war period,people needed to read some entertaining articles to relax;and in the war era,sports carried a stronger color of "sports to save the country",so some newspapers began to set up a sports supplement section to regularly publish sports-related news or articles in the newspaper.This paper selects sports supplements from 1937-1945 during the war period as the object of study,and adopts the methods of literature,case study and statistics to analyze the text content,text types and editorial team of sports supplements during this period.In the special historical background of war,the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious,and sports had a strong color of anti-Japanese salvation.There were 23 sports supplements in China before the founding of the country,while there were 9 in the period from 1937 to 1945.During this period,sports supplements were published for a short period of time due to the war,and could not be issued for a long time;they were published in more scattered places,but Shanghai was still the main area of publication;there were more kinds of sports supplements,among which gliding was prominent.During this period,sports supplements were mainly divided into single sports and comprehensive sports news.Studying the purpose of the publications,we can find that the purpose of the sports supplements was to disseminate specific sports and to express a strong sense of national salvation.From 1937 to 1945,the content of the sports supplements mainly consisted of news articles,sports knowledge articles,commentary articles and other articles.The sports-related reports were mostly in the general sports supplements,which were simple and fair;the sportsrelated documentary articles were in the single sports supplements,which had a clear literary style of language;the newsletters mainly played the role of communication and summarized the related sports news to meet the reading needs of specific people.Unlike the professional editors of newspapers,who were independently responsible for the appointment and selection of articles,the editors of sports supplements in this period were responsible for some outstanding achievements in the field of sports,who were able to select articles more professionally and provide professional sports-related articles themselves.Although the sports supplement took up only a very small part of the newspaper,it also met the readers’ reading needs,broadened the dissemination of sports culture,spread advanced sports theory and knowledge as well as Western sports culture,promoted traditional national sports culture,and advanced the development of wartime sports.It is found that the social change environment during the period of total resistance to war had a greater impact on sports supplements,which were still strongly characterized by literature and art,and our research on the history of sports journalism is still in its infancy.Drawing on the experience,our contemporary sports supplements editors should improve their editorial strategies and focus on the authority of the authors of the articles;they should study the history of modern sports journalism more deeply and dig deeper into historical materials.