Relatively speaking, archery, racing, and horse racing are also relatively high-level activities, and there are many civilian activities such as football.

Of course, the so-called civilianization is the kind of activity that can easily evolve from military training to Minjia's entertainment.

Hooking is now a tug-of-war.

To trace the origins of this activity, it is true that it evolved from military activities.

It is said that during the Warring States Period, the Chu State once fought with the Yue State in the Yangtze River, and the famous carpenter Lu Ban designed a weapon called "Hook Qiang" for the Chu State, which made it easy for the Chu people to advance and difficult to retreat; The Yue people in the lower reaches of the country are more difficult to advance and easier to retreat, and this "hook strength" allows the Chu army to use it to hook the ships of the Yue country to fight.

Out of the needs of actual combat, Hook Qiang was used in the army as a military training project, pulling each other, becoming a fitness training activity, and later evolved into an entertainment game widely popular among the people. At first, people still used to pull in the water, and gradually developed to use ropes on land to do pair pull games.

When it comes to the battles between Wu, Yue and Chu, these southern countries, it is natural that various water training activities are indispensable.

Water warfare should first talk about boating, which has also given rise to such activities as boat racing.

It is undeniable that the current dragon boat race, as a variety of competitions, has been endowed with a very strong cultural connotation background with Chinese characteristics.

Historical records say that Qu Yuan, a highly talented doctor in the late Warring States period, was a great patriotic poet, who was extremely worried about the weakness of the Chu State and tried to govern it, but was excluded and framed by the nobles who were in power at the time, and was finally exiled by the King of Chu. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the summer calendar in 278 B.C., he jumped into the Miluo River with grief and indignation. When the local people heard the news, they all drove a light boat to rescue Qu Yuan with grief, but they did not succeed. Legend has it that in order to prevent Qu Yuan from being eaten by the fish in the river, he rowed a boat and threw zongzi into the river every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In order to sacrifice Qu Yuan, the boat was gradually changed into a dragon shape, and gradually had a racing form to commemorate Qu Yuan. Dragon boat racing is a sporting activity that has been passed down from generation to generation.

In addition, of course, there are other cultural backgrounds, such as commemorating Wu Zixu and Cao E in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Ma Yuan in Guangxi. The ceremonies of Fuzhou and Xiamen to commemorate the trial of King Hades also have their own characteristics.

However, it may be like a tug-of-war, and it may have evolved from a military competition to a civilian activity. (This sentence is the words of the author's family, without evidence support, and cannot enter the eyes of the Fang family.) ）

In a war of whom, it is naturally very convenient to rely on such tools as ships, but we cannot ignore the necessity of people as users and carriers.

Even if science and technology are so developed now, being proficient in the use of cold weapons is still a compulsory course for all special forces. What is a foreign object? What is the essence is clear at a glance.

After all, racing is only a local recreation, while swimming is a worldwide sport.

Long ago it was used in the military. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes competed for hegemony, there was no lack of water battles, and swimming became the ability to fight, and it was said in the military book "Liutao": "The skilledman is ...... to cross the river across the river

Wu Yue is located in the south and is good at water warfare. Guan Zhong, the minister of Qi, in order to prevent the Vietnamese army from attacking Qi from land and water. The "Standing Pond", an abyss of ten thousand feet, was used to train the soldiers' swimming skills and the ability to drive warships. And use the reward of a thousand gold to encourage the people of Qi to learn to swim and expand the source of soldiers.

It may not be obvious to say that this far allusion is not as good as not crossing the influence of the party, and the Battle of Chibi a few years later clearly illustrates this truth. Swimming is a sport that definitely needs to be promoted.

Although it is said that Boss Cao was defeated because of the plague in the official history, if the northern soldiers under Boss Cao did not have the factor of not adapting to water and soil and not being good at water warfare. The army crossed the river directly and went south to the south of the Yangtze River, which would be stopped in the north of the river until the plague broke out?

As for the romance version, needless to say, if there was a water war earlier, could you be fooled by that serial plan and lock the warships together?

Although these listed are different from martial arts in the general sense, they are actually fundamentally the same.

Martial arts, or these sports, have two fundamental goals.

Externally, to put it bluntly, it is to enhance combat effectiveness. Inside, it is naturally the sentence that strengthens the body.

In addition to these, there is a very large movement, and the above ones are nothing compared to this.

Field hunting - a production activity of military significance.

There are a large number of field hunting records in the oracle bone inscriptions of Yin Shang, and the prey obtained includes elk, deer, rabbits, furrows, foxes, etc. Yin Shang was already a society with a predominantly agricultural economy, and field hunting was no longer a means of production for the purpose of making ends meet, especially in the Zhou Dynasty.

The functions of field hunting, according to the literature, are as follows:

The first is to eliminate pests in the fields and protect crops from the ravages of birds and animals.

The second is to provide worship to the temple.

The third is to drive chariots and horses, bend bows and ride and shoot, mobilize the army, and conduct military training.

Finally, the delicacies of the mountains and wild game obtained from the field hunting are also used for feasting guests and "filling the king's house".

The Book of Rites says that the system of the Zhou Dynasty was four seasons of field hunting: spring search, summer seedling, autumn hunting, and winter hunting. There are certain etiquette rules for field hunting, and hunting without etiquette is a tyrannical thing. The ritual law stipulates that field hunting does not hunt young animals, does not collect bird eggs, does not kill pregnant animals, does not injure young animals that have not grown up, and does not destroy bird nests. In addition, hunting and killing should be encircled but not combined, leaving room for all the killings, and it is not possible to catch them all at once, and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. These rituals are of positive significance for the protection of wildlife resources and the maintenance of the ecological balance of the natural world, but they cannot be strictly enforced.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ruler's field hunting has become a means of training and martial arts. Because in peacetime, the way of field hunting is to "teach the people to fight", which can not only form a team of the people, but also exercise the military skills of marching and cavalry archery. According to the "Chinese Rest": "In the spring, the brigade is searched and the army is revitalized, and the autumn is used to rule the soldiers." That is, the Qi State often used field hunting activities to train troops and practice martial arts. At that time, the scale of Tian Hunting was very large, according to the "Historical Records of Wei Gongzi Liebiography" record: "Gongzi and Wei Wangbo, and the northern border is rumored to be Feng, Zhao Kouzhi, and enter the border." The king of Wei Shi Bo wanted to summon his ministers to conspire. …… It is rumored from the north that King Zhao is hunting ears, not for Kouye. It shows the scale of Zhao Wangtian's hunting at that time.

It can be said that this thing is simply a military exercise.

In addition to these cases during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the most famous is naturally the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

From Dong Zhuo's rapid corruption in Beijing a few years later, to the rapid corruption and exhaustion after the occupation of the Central Plains by Daliao and Dajin, even the once-prosperous Yuanmeng could not escape this nightmare.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the children of the Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty also continued to carry out such activities.

Unfortunately, it was useless, and the prosperous Central Plains quickly eroded their ambitions, and no one escaped this strange circle.

Of course, no matter what the result is, the significance of the field hunt itself cannot be ignored after all. The Qing Dynasty had no opponents, so there was no sense of urgency, so the effect of such military exercises was average. For vassal states surrounded by enemies, the effect is absolute (to be continued. )