莫高窟中的古代“健美运动员”──浅谈健美运动的起源和发展

Figures of Body Builder in the Mogao Grottoes

本文从中国石窟、寺院里金刚力士形象的来历，探讨健美运动的起源和发展。古代的健美运动起源于公元前６世纪古希腊的军事体育。中国自古亦有健美运动的锻炼方法和理论，由于受中国封建礼仪道德、人体审美观念的限制，没有发展起来。现代西欧的健美运动产生于欧洲文艺复兴之后，中国的现代健美运动是从欧美传入的。

This paper will probe into the origin and development of they building from the sourceOf figures of guardians in Chinese temples and grottoes. Ancient they building originatedfrom ancient Greek military sports in the 6th century B. C. In ancient times, the methodand theory of trainning of body building also came into being in China. But they did not develop because of the limits of Chinese feudal etiquette and moral and aesthetic standards.Modern body building of Western Europe emerged affer the European Renaissance and now itis transmitted into China.