链球运动起源新探

Exploration of the origin of hammer throw

链球一直被认为起源于苏格兰,但最近发现的一块西晋画像砖给人们展示了我国最早的掷链球形态。从历史、地理、哲学等角度对这一画像砖进行考析,旨在探讨链球运动的起源,通过史料分析认为链球运动起源于中国具有较大的可能性。

Hammer throw is always deemed as originating from Scotland, but a recently found portrait brick painted in the Western Jin dynasty showed the earliest form of hammer throw in China. From the perspectives of history, geography and philosophy, the authors closely examined this portrait brick in order to probe into the origin of hammer throw, and concluded that it is quite a possibility that hammer throw originated from China.