On The Military Sports Of Jinggangshan (1927-1930)

Jinggangshan is a sacred place of China’s Revolution, and is also the cradle of building the "new people’s army ". Military sports in Jinggangshan contributed greatly to improve the overall quality and Combat capability of officers and soldiers, to consolidate the construction of Revolutionary base, and to strengthen the revolutionary struggle. A comprehensive and objective restoration of the developmental course of military sports, analyzing its characteristics, summarizing its historical contribution and the profound influence, is valuable to the research on the history of revolutionary base and sports. Guided by historical research theory, this research explores thoroughly the military sports in Jinggangshan on its general situation, settings, characteristics, historical contribution, profound influence, and practical significance by the use of such research methods as literature&data analysis, field survey method, expert interview and logical analysis. The findings are as the following:1. Social, historical and cultural background in the period of Jinggangshan revolutionary struggle and the geographical environment in Jinggangshan influenced greatly on the birth of military sports, thus engrave the military sports with times and geographical features.2. Jinggangshan military sports experienced three stages, namely, hard exploration, shaping and development, maturity and persistence. Combined with the needs of revolutionary struggle, the Red Army, red guards, riot squad and young pioneers in Jinggangshan carried out rich and fruitful activities in military physical training.3. The characteristics of Jinggangshan military sports are such as creativity, class character, revolution character, general public, combination of political training and military training, adaptation to local condition, striving for efficiency, compatibility and innovation.4. The historical contributions Jinggangshan military sports made are such as improving the officers’and soldiers’military skill and physical fitness, enhancing the fighting effectiveness of the army, developing the fighting spirit of fearing no sacrifice and daring to attack, reforming the management in army troops, and enriching the Red Army soldiers’leisure life.5. Main points of Jinggangshan military sports’ profound influence are such as laying the foundation for the development of military sports and military education, training a large number of military talents, and developing a fine tradition of military sports.6. The practical revelations of Jinggangshan military sports are such as ensuring the leadership of the Communist Party of China and proper political direction, organizing sports activities according to the needs of military strategy and tactics as well as the conditions of weapon equipment and Revolution situation, preserving the fine style of striving and struggling hard, and strengthening the practice of scientific research and innovation.