The Leisure Value and Realization Path of Chinese Archery in Late Ming Dynasty from the Perspective of Leisure Sports
Haidong Chen(a) , Feixue Rao (b*)

a) and b) both:School of Physical Education and Sports Science, South China Normal University, Panyu, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

In the late Ming Dynasty, the country faced internal and external troubles, but the relaxation of guidelines led to an open and diverse social atmosphere, so the martial arts flourished. In the late Ming Dynasty, the warrior groups and literati communicated mostly through leisure activities, including calligraphy, poetry, etc., and emerging content such as stick martial arts and archery. From the perspective of leisure sports, this article will explain the leisure value and realization path of traditional archery in the late Ming Dynasty through literature review and interpretation.The Leisure Value and Realization Path of Chinese Archery in Late Ming Dynasty from the Perspective of
The study concludes that leisure sports are mainly characterized by a cultural activity based on the physical practice of people in their specific leisure time to achieve the interconnection and mutual promotion of personality, social, and cultural systems. In the late Ming Dynasty, the military and literati transformed archery from a military martial art into a leisure sport for social interaction and talked about it from a practical point of view. Their ultimate goal was to bring into play social values by perfecting their personalities and then writing books and treatises to enlighten future generations. This is the humanistic spirit that characterizes Chinese physical culture. Many authors of archery books in the Ming dynasty have constructed archery systems by focusing on the subjectivity of the human being and the subjectivity of culture.

Keywords: leisure sports, archery in Ming Dynasty, leisure value, realization path

Topic: Sport and culture in Asian societies