Research On Sports Of Song Dynasty

In song dynasty, China’s social and economic prosperity, people’s Daily life of sports wasalso in full swing. Sports can enhance the physical quality and enrich People’s Dailyentertainment sporting activities, which also is a important means to enhance nationalcompetitiveness and strengthen national cohesion. The sports scope of Song dynasty was verybroad, it included athletics, ball games, archery, wrestling, weight lifting, swimming, riding,and martial arts movement, etc.The development of a variety of sports in song dynasty had reached a comparativelycomplete degree in the social life history in ancient China, compared with today’s society isno less. It enhanced the poets in physical quality, enriched the poets in daily social life,consolidated the reign of song dynasty, promoted the social development of the songdynasty.There were colorful sports activities in the song dynasty, Athletics middle-distancerace in military and communication system played an important role, the high jump was thesong dynasty important military training project, throwing type mainly included cast stone,ruby, strikes soil, javelin, and cast stone still played a big role in song dynasty war, Simaguang reformed ruby to make it more in line with manners.Soil movement changed in songdynasty, the main throwing bricks. Javelin in song dynasty were a large number of productioninto the army and played a role on the battlefield. Archery included Yi shoot, the sling shotand Crossbow arrows, and crossbow shooting was in the song dynasty daily military traininggame,Wu Ju,military investigator, martial occupied a important position, in the song dynastyalso produced the archer community, traced back to five dynasties before song dynasty whenabandoned archery, it attached great importance to the role of ritual in etiquette celebration. Inthe song dynasty ball game included football, polo and beats pill, football sports developedinto two kinds,and game system was perfected in the song dynasty, which was popularamong poets, polo movement spread to all aspects of the song dynasty society in the army.Beats pill motion by development of polo in the tang dynasty, in the song dynasty hadestablished the rules of the game correctly and was very popular. Wrestling movement in fullswing, in royal or folk cottage performances, which had a professional wrestler and wrestlingclub, it was composed of professional wrestling and wrestling books emerged. Weightliftingsport was mainly for stone and weapons. Jiangsu and Zhejiang area residents loved swimmingand mass frolic in the waves of the game，Song dynasty paid more attention to the cultivation of cavalry and strengthen the usual practice immediately, boat competition also was afestival performance. Song dynasty martial arts had specific name, such as rods, sword andWuDao, punch, etc., the mainly used weapons included guns, knives, clubs, sword martial artstraining, the various types of weapons expanded, martial arts also was a military show. Folksports mainly included swing, kites, boatrace, climbing, kicking shuttlecock and so on,enriched the entertainment life of people. In the song dynasty people paid more attention topreserve health, through the guide line of gas, massage, gymnastics and other sports to keepfit, so they also produced a set of gym massage method。At that time, people valued sports, from the nobles to the plebeian inhabitants, all choseown sports to keep fit. Inherited the way of sports, it also developed its own characteristics atthe same time, such as long-distance running in song dynasty, which had been applied to thepostal system, throwing tiles on soil movement in the song dynasty stone was given a priorityto the javelin in song dynasty, it was first applied to large-scale war, beats pill motion becamemature and perfect in the song dynasty martial art began to independent from acrobatics.Thedevelopment of sports in the song dynasty, of course, was not very balanced, it focus on theskill training pattern but it paid less attention to power fight, there is no doubt it contributeda lot in the history of the development of sports in ancient China.