Research On Archery Of The Pre-qin Period

The archery of pre-Qin period has a very unique status in Chinese ancient sportshistory. It is not only sports and culture but also part of political and social economiclife of people at that time. Whether the Six classical arts which is listed as one of theeducation content of Xia, Shang, and Xi Zhou dynasty or the the emperor’s shotceremony for the emperor of Zhou dynasty or the social trend that when you have a sonthen you put the arrow out of your left door that all illustrate the archery movement hasan important status at that time.This paper mainly uses literature, making textual criticisms and explanations ofancient Chinese, concluding and logic analysis and other research methods makes asystematic collate and research of four aspects which are education system, officesetting, etiquette, and arrow manufacture in order to show the archery development atthat time and highlight the pre-Qin archery development of the main line.The research shows that the archery of pre-Qin has a very important status of sociallife at that time which is not only tools of human production and living and mainweapons of war but also the basic content of education activities at that time as theimportant carrier of people’s spiritual culture. More worth mentioning, archery thatintegrates many elements to one which is not only because it plays many roles inpeople’s social life but also because it is different from other sports, the state has stoodin the height of the social governance maintain the healthy sustainable development ofarchery in four dimensionalities which are social education, social organizations, socialorder and social guarantee. Perhaps because of the enough attention and mandatoryrequirement from the state to archery that makes the popularity of archery educationwhich is called When you get elder, you must learn to shoot; And it forms the socialstigma ideas if you can shoot that you are good which is called, The master orders youshoot that you unable to shoot so you should evade by the illness. You should say that you are tired of fetching wood which means you have disease.The basic conclusions of the research are: first, the archery of pre-Qin has thecharacteristics of the diversification of social function. Second, the archery of pre-Qinhas a different cultural influence in different historical stages. Third, the development ofarchery of pre-Qin always has the support and attention from the national level.