The physical activities could be traced back to the end of the primitive society. According to historic materials, 4,500 years ago, in the era of the Huangdi Dynasty, the genre of dancing called “yun men”(the door of the clouds) and all kinds of martial practices, bare-handed or armed, has been recorded by the historians. In the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, with the hotbed of numerous philosophical thinking competing with each other, the theories regarding physical education got polished. The physical culture got even more nutrition in Han Dynasty, but it soon appeared to polarize in the Wei,Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Unlike the Southern Dynasty …show more content…
As early as the Han Dynasty, the shooting art has enjoyed its popularity in the north area. In the portrait stone of Han Dynasty unearthed nowadays, we could find people riding in different postures, which reflects the rather developed level of the riding and shooting. According to the distribution of the portrait stones, the stone portraits of archery of the Han Dynasty unearthed is generally concentrated in the north area. This phenomenon also proves the popularity of the archery in the northern area in the Han Dynasty.
At the same time, the data can also be contrasted by the statistics and the distribution table of the shooting and riding figure stones along with the territory map of the Northern Dynasty. According to the latter one, the ranking of all regions are as follows: 1 Shandong, north of Jiangsu, north of Anhui, east and east-south of Henan(87), 2 circling the Nanyang City, west of the Henan Province till the north of Shaanxi (15), 3 north of Shaanxi to west of Shanxi.(46) 4 Sichuan, north of Yunnan (Jialing River, Minjiang River, 10), 5 Henan Luoyang surroundings. According to the Northern Territory map, the location of the Si State, Yu State and several other places matches the location of Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, and the Jin State, Xu state and some other states are at exactly the location of Shandong and Anhui. It is quite clear …show more content…
In the Northern Dynasty, traditions from different minorities interacted and mixed together, maintaining its military trend, in which highlights its nationality.
2.2 the coverage
The admiration for the strong figure and the powerful strength permeated in the whole social system from top to bottom. The emperor, the ruling class of the nobles and officials, the common people, they were all supporters of this culture. This martial spirit, to some extent, touched every corner of the society. And so there is description about young swordsmen in the poems written by contemporary poets.
2.3 the female power
In this period, there is a prominent phenomenon, and that is the vigorous development of women 's sports. Because of the high coverage of the martial culture in the society, the women in the Northern Dynasty also showed a high mastery level. One of the stars in these figures is the little sister of Li Bo, who is appreciated by poets and written into the poems. According to the folks and poems, she is a master in archery. She could shoot two arrows at the same time with different arms, and lots of men at her time could not be as skillful as she