Chinese Sport

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The paper discusses how sports have been an important part of many cultures throughout the entire world. Games meeting our modern definition of "sport" were played very long ago among the Chinese people and these sports were strongly connected with health, war, entertainment and education. The paper examines the contributions of ancient China on the organized sports of the modern world, and contends that the significance of these games on the culture at the time are greatly under-recognized. The paper concludes that sports and games were obviously an integral part of culture and society in ancient China.

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"Relics have been found that confirm that specific physical exercise was done in China up to ten thousand years ago that built up strength and made the body more limber. Some of the earliest sports that were played among the Chinese include shooting arrows, known as shejian, and lifting metal tripods, known as juding. While not referred to as "sports" per se, they were definitely akin to what would be called sports today, and they were a part of normal activities in the Western Zhou Dynasty (around 1066 - 771 BCE). (CIIC, "Introduction...") As Chinese culture and society grew in other areas, such as the economic and military changes, the inclusion of sports also grew."

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