Communion to Cooperation: A Study of Sports Promoting National Integration in the Northern Wei Dynasty
Yuan YuChuang Jiang JiaJun

School of Physical Education, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475000, China

Abstract

Ethnic integration is a common phenomenon in the historical development of multi-ethnic countries, and is a typical feature and objective necessity of the flow, development and change of national communities. This paper uses the literature method and the case study method to discuss the role of archery, martial, Go and other sports in the ethnic integration of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and believes that these sports did not exist in isolation under the historical conditions at that time, but formed their own unique development characteristics under the influence of military, economic, political and other activities, and in the process had an impact on the ethnic psychology, religious development, living customs, political exchanges and ruler policies of the Hu and Han ethnic groups. Specifically, it is manifested in the exchange and integration of sports culture, the mutual dialogue of Confucian and other religious ideas, the baptism of sportsmanship on people^s war trauma，the ruling class^s fondness for sports fostered the integration of the two groups and the ^sports diplomacy^ of mutual exchanges between the two sides under the role of war.Thus promoting the integration of the two sides. And to lay the foundation for the formation of the Chinese nation today.

Keywords: Northern Wei Dynasty- ethnic integration- national identity- Chinese nation

Topic: Comparative analysis of sport in Asian societies and other sports cultures and traditions