| Children’s sports games,as a form of sports that integrates interest,interaction,regularity and competition,are an essential means to promote children’s physical and mental development.At present,most of the academic circles attach importance to the development and application of children’s sports games,and pay little attention to the historical value and implication of children’s sports games.As one of the more common painting and decoration themes in our ancient times,baby show depicts a large number of children’s life and game scenes,which has high artistic and historical value.Especially for sports games,the Children-play Pictures records in detail the items,forms and processes of ancient children’s participation in sports games in the form of images,describes the details of children’s movements in games,shows the spiritual outlook of children in the Song Dynasty,and then becomes an important historical image for the study of ancient children’s sports games.This study selected representative Children-play Pictures in Song Dynasty as the object of investigation,combined with the analysis of political,economic and cultural background,explored and sorted out the form and connotation of children’s sports games in Song Dynasty,which has academic significance for promoting the study of ancient children’s sports games and expanding the perspective of sports history research.This paper adopts the method of literature research,historical analysis,logical analysis,image research,etc.,based on the multidisciplinary theories of physical education,history,iconography,archaeology,sociology,etc.,to analyze the children’s sports games in the Children-play Pictures of Song Dynasty,focusing on the analysis of the development background,characteristics,categories and ideological implications of the Children-play Pictures of Song Dynasty.the research conclusions are as follows: First,the social reasons for the emergence of children’s sports games in the Children-play Pictures in Song Dynasty are as follows: the political guidance in Song Dynasty promoted the development of leisure activities,and then promoted the prevalence of Children-play Pictures themes;The prosperity of the economy promotes the increase of entertainment demand,and drives the circulation of children’s toys and painting commodities;The prosperity of culture promotes the enhancement of the entertainment atmosphere,and promotes the combination of children’s sports games and painting.Second,the children’s sports games in the Song Dynasty Children-play Pictures can be divided into four categories:wrestling,competition,festival and elegant.The wrestling category includes duck fighting,sumo wrestling.The competitions included Cuju,Chuiwan and Weiqi.Seasonal categories are kite flying,grass fighting,swing,skipping rope;Elegant and interesting categories are playing top,riding bamboo horses,hide and seek and so on.Thirdly,the children’s sports games in the Children-play Pictures of Song Dynasty have the historical characteristics of entertainment,diversity,folklore and enlightenment.Fourth,behind the scene of children’s sports games in the Song Dynasty,there is the cultural concept of advocating nature and respecting children’s nature in the Song Dynasty.Care for children’s health,pay attention to sports health concept;Attaching importance to children’s etiquette education and advocating the educational tradition of teaching through lively activities;Pay attention to personal life interests,advocating the entertainment concept of plaything fit feeling. |