《山海经》中的体育活动探究

Research on Sports Activity in the Book of Mountains and Seas

《山海经》是一部保存了丰富上古神话的先秦古籍,其中也记载了大量诸如基本身体技能、劳动技能、军事技能、舞蹈、养生、棋类活动等内容的体育活动。这些尚未形成独立体系的原初形态的体育活动呈现出浓郁的巫术色彩和显著的区域性特征。研究表明:中国的上古神话中蕴藏着生动活泼、奇伟夸诞的体育活动,我们可以借助神话来揭开处于萌芽状态的民族传统体育的神秘面纱。

The book of mountains and seas is a preservation of a large number of ancient myths of the Pre - Qin Dynasty Ancient Books, in which the recordation about sports education involves the basic skills, military skills, work skills, taking health, dance and activities such as chess content. Mthough these original forms of sports activities had not yet formed an independent system, it shows a strong sorcery color and notable regional features. The result shows that lively, magical, fantastic or even boastful sports practice hides in China＇s ancient mythology. We can unveil mysterious veil of the national traditional sports which was still at the embryonic stage by the study of myths.