The Description of Water Sports in The Book of Songs and the Reference for Contemporary Sports
The Book of Songs records works from the early years of Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle term of Spring and Autumn Period,which was one of the few documents before the formation of the Chinese nation.About one-third content of the book are all related to water among which includes many water-related activities,and the earliest record about swimming appears in The Book of Songs.Water activities written in The Book of Songs are mainly derived from the needs of production activities and travel,such as wading across a river,crossing the river with the help of bottle gourd,swimming,diving,taking a raft,boating and so on.The basic features of them shows that"bravery"was an important spirit of early water activities,and compared to land sports activities at the same time,water activities developed slower,but it initially has the function of pursuing physical and mental health.Many water activities recorded in The Book of Songs are of great sig-nificance to contemporary sports,for example,river crossing on foot,river crossing by making the boat with the on-site materials,beach landing training and dragon boat racing are the inheritance and development of the pioneering spirit of water activities in The Book of Songs.
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