体育起源新说

A new theory of sports origin

运用文献资料和田野调查对原生态体育现象进行分析,结果表明,人类生殖繁衍需要及活动是体育产生的动因之一。促成性选择和完善婚姻制度增强人类体质是许多传统体育活动产生、存在和发展的价值所在。原始先民体育活动的根本内涵是追求人丁兴旺和五谷丰收。原始先民体育活动的器具反映了对生殖的崇拜;活动内容是对性行为的影射和对多子多福的祈求;体育活动以家族、宗族为单位强化了婚姻禁忌,促进了种族繁衍,符合早期人类的最高利益。据此可以推断,原始先民生殖繁衍活动推动了部分民族民间传统体育的产生和发展,其体育活动包括促进人类生殖繁衍的内涵。

The authors analyzed primitive ecological sports by means of literature data and field investigation, and revealed the following findings： the needs and activities of human beings for reproduction and multiplication are one of the causes for the generation of sports. Promotive selection, perfecting the marriage system and enhancing the physical quality of human beings are the value for the generation, existence and development of many traditional sports activities. The fundamental connotation of sports activities of primitive ancestors is to seek for thriving population and good crop harvests. Sports instruments used by primitive ancestors reflected their worship towards reproduction; activity contents were the innuendo of sexual behaviors and the pray for more offspring and happiness; sports activities in the unit of family and clan intensified marriage taboos, promoted race multiplication, and coincided with the ultimate interests of early human beings. It is hence concluded that the reproduction and mortification activities of primitive ancestors had boosted the generation and development of folk sports of some nations, and that their sports activities include such a connotation as boosting human reproduction and multiplication.