| Water Margin is one of the four great classics novels of ancient China, and contains a number of excellent culture, It is the treasure of the Chinese ancient culture. The novel's theme is peasant uprising and described a group of "heroes" who against tyranny got together in Liang Shan. The book involves a lot of rich and colorful of sports culture, provides us with a lot of vivid materials that reflects social and sports development state during song dynasty,It's formed the unique sports culture.This article uses the literature research, expert investigation, logic analysis methods to researching the sports culture of Water Margin. Combined with the background of that time, the sports culture of Water Margin has its own characteristics, embodied in the four aspects: in terms of sports apparel, sports clothing not only reflects the personality and the social status of the characters, but also are closely related to sports; In terms of sports, sports activities in Water Margin reflects the characteristics of diversity,competition, primary and maturity; In terms of mass sports, Water Margin showed higher public sports popularity at that time, mainly manifested in these points: first, it's formed folk football organizations; Second, in the novel everybody learn Martial Arts and have a high level of Chinese kung fu; third, women's sports are started to develop. Fourth, Water Margin involved rich and colorful sports activities. In terms of sports ideology, it's embodied in these points: first, respect themselves' teachers and honour truth; Second, heroes of Water Margin help people though all kinds of manners, but embodies the common spirit, namely, the recognition of "righteousness". Third, many sports activities in the book are caused by detest evil thoughts. Fourth, heroes have the spirit of loyal sports thought. The research results of sports culture and Water Margin culture has important significance. |
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