Sports History

Sports although has a long history, but "sports" is a word but appear much later. Because, in "sports" is a word to appear before the world to the sports activity process appellation terms are not all the same.

What are the basic function of school physical education embodies the the meaning of sports? -the answer has three: 1. The fitness function 2. Education function 3. Entertainment function in ancient Greece, games, wrestling, gymnastics, etc have been listed as education content. On 17 and 18 th century, western education also added to hunting, swim, climb, running, jumping to wait for an activity, although there is no uniform name.

In the 18th century, the German J.C.F. ancient watts mourinho he had been put these activities classification, comprehensive, collectively referred to as "gymnastics". In the nineteenth century, on the one hand, the German formed a new gymnastics system, and widely spread in Europe and the United States; On the other hand is a variety of arise new sports. In the school also gradually carried out beyond the scope of the original more sports, and to build a "sports is the means of physical activity education" the new concept. And so, in a period of time, the "gymnastics" and "sports" two words coexistence, mutual combination, chaos, until the 20 th century it gradually in unified within the world called "sports".

Along with the progress of the society and the continuous development of sports, the aim and content are more than the original "sports" category, the concept of sports also appeared "general" and "special" explanation. When used in general, it is to point to sports, including sports education, competitive sports and exercise three aspects; Used in narrow sense, it is to point to physical education.

In recent years, many scholars to "sports" almost read put forward some explanation, but compared to the agreement explanation for: "sports is based on physical activity as the medium, to seek the individual health of body and mind, all-round development as the goal, and to cultivate the direct perfect social citizens is the ultimate goal of a social and cultural phenomenon or education process". Sports this definition not only defines its essence attribute, and pointed out its ownership category, but also from the itself and its neighbours or similar social phenomenon distinguished. However, the concept of sports is not immutable, along with society's development and progress, to understanding of sports also to development.