| The talent group in modern Hunan province is a group of great proletarian revolutionists, statesmen, strategists and educators born in Hunan province who later become the founders of the people's army and the People's Republic of China. They are also giants on the field of physical education of our nation as both its advocates and practitioners. Their profound leading thoughts on physical education are very significant in the history of physical education of modern China.This paper chooses the talent group in modern Hunan province represented by Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Liu Shaoqi, He Long, Peng Dehuai and Xu Teli as the study object. It gives a deep analysis and an objective comment on their opinions and statements as well as practice on the field of physical education through literature study, interviews of experts, field investigation and logical analysis. The thoughts of physical education of the talent group in modern Hunan province can be put into five groups:thoughts on physical exercise for health, on physical education, on military sports and on national prosperity by physical training. on sports for all. The thoughts are advanced, socially functional, comparatively complete and individually different.Their thoughts have made great contribution in terms of helping for the formation of the national spirit of modern China, raising the awareness of sports among the public, helping the development of modern education especially physical education in China, advancing China's modern military physical training and publicizing physical exercises of the public in modern times. |