Sports in ancient
Sports in ancient China
• China is well known as an ancient country with a civilization several thousand years old. • Sports in ancient China were extremely rich and diversified, each with distinct features of its own. • For example, they can be classified into the following groups:
daoyin
wuqinxi
• 3. Various forms of physical training for military purposes, such as archery and charioteering in the Western Zhou Dynasty and long-distance runs in the army camps of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
• 1. Performing and entertaining sports, such as swordsmanship and touhu (throwing arrows into wine pitchers) of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods (770-221 BC), cuju(football) and baixi (acrobatics) of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), jiju(polo) of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and bingxi(games on ice) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Hunting, which is only for amusement, also falls into this category.
archery
charioteering
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bingxi
• 2. Keep-fit activities such as daoyin (physical and breathing exercises combined with auto massage) and wuqinxi (Five Animal Play) of the Han Dynasty, and all kinds of traditional life preserving exercises that have been handed down to this day.