水戲

  水戲,主要包括游泳和龍舟競(jìng)渡等水上運(yùn)動(dòng)形式。它源于原始人類(lèi)的漁獵生產(chǎn)活動(dòng)。在歷史的發(fā)展過(guò)程中,由于軍事上的需要,提高了水上運(yùn)動(dòng)的技術(shù)水平;而與民間節(jié)日活動(dòng)的緊密結(jié)合,又豐富了水上運(yùn)動(dòng)的形式,因而是具有民族特色的傳統(tǒng)體育的重要組成部分。

Aquatic Sports

  In ancient times, swimming and rowing grew out of the needs for fishing and fighting on water and developed, usually in connection with festivals, into sporting activities with a strong national colour, such as the dragon-boat race.

游泳圖壁畫(huà)甘肅省敦煌市莫高窟第420窟壁畫(huà)

隋 581——618

這幅壁畫(huà)表現(xiàn)了一群活潑健美、生氣勃勃的習(xí)水善泅者的形象。
Swimming among lotus flowers: A mural in Mogao Grotto No. 257 in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, built in the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534).

游泳圖壁畫(huà)西藏拉薩市布達(dá)拉宮壁畫(huà)

清 1644——1911

畫(huà)面描繪了習(xí)水游泳者的各種姿態(tài),人物活潑生動(dòng),形象逼真。
Churning through the waves: A Qing mural in Potala in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.

龍舟競(jìng)渡紋銅鉞1976年浙江省鄞縣出土

春秋 公元前770——前475

銅鉞一面的紋飾中,上部刻有雙龍圖案,下部為一組插羽飾的劃船者。這是一幅反映龍舟競(jìng)渡活動(dòng)的畫(huà)面。
A bronze axe in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475), excavated in 1976 in Yinxian County, Zhenjiang Province, with the upper part of the design showing a pair of dragons and the lower part some dragon-boat rowers wearing feathered headgear.

龍舟競(jìng)渡紋銅鼓1976年廣西貴縣羅泊灣出土

西漢 公元前206——公元25

鼓胸有羽人劃船紋六組,每組5、6 人,栩栩如生。
A bronze drum unearthed in 1976 in Guixian County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25), depicting six crews in a dragon-boat race.

龍舟競(jìng)渡紋銅鼓紋飾展開(kāi)圖1972年廣西西林縣普馱屯出土

西漢 公元前206——公元25

Another Western Han drum with a design of dragon boats, excavated in 1972 in Xilin County, Guangxi Province.