在近代时期,西方体育传入中国以后,中国传统的体育除了少数项目失传以外,多数都被继承和流传下来,诸如武术、导引术、棋类活动、摔跤、龙舟、马球等。它们与西方体育传来的体育项目及竞赛方法相互融合,彼此吸收,构成了中国近代体育的特点。
The Development of Traditional Sports
Following the introduction of Western physical culture into China, most of its traditional sports were kept alive during the Modern Period. Among these were the martial art of wushu, daoyin exercises, various chess games, wresting, the dragon-boat rowing and polo. They developed in combination with the imported sports and with reference to their methods of competition, thus forming a physical culture in which the old met the new and the East met the West.
Huo Yuanjia (1857-1910) and the apparatus he used in wushu training—a seven-section whip and a stone padlock for weighlifting. An advocate of martial arts as a means to make the nation strong, he founded the Jingwu Academy in Shanghai—the first of its kind in China—which developed into a sports association.
Wushu masters were sent by Jingwu Academy to teach at many schools, including Zhonghua Railway School in Shanghai (Photo taken in 1916).
Zhang Zhijiang(1882-1969,left picture),founder of the Central Wushu Academy,which organized the first wushu contest in October 1928,Picture above shows the opening ceremony.
Pan Deming traveled around the world on foot and bike in seven years from June 1930 to June 1937.
The Chinese-style chess of xiangqi has enjoyed undecayed popularity from generation to generation.
As a favorite sport in the army, polo aroused great interest at the Sixth National Games held in Shanghai in 1935.
Mongolian-style wrestling as demonstrated at the Sixth National Games held in Shanghai in 1935.