Ancient Sports in Dunhuang Murals 1

To celebrate the Beijing Olympics,传奇私服, Dunhuang academy held a photo exhibition recently, showing 22 Dunhuang murals featuring painted ancient sports. Wrestling, horsemanship, throwing spear and archery were involved in these murals,传奇私服, among which the most prominent,传奇私服, “The Illustration of the Maitreya”,六合彩, a fresco from Mogao Grotto of late Tang Dynasty (618-907),传奇私服,我和春天有个约定, portraying a torch bearer holding aloft the torch on it.

Dunhuang grottoes were continuously carved from the middle of 4th century to 14th century and nearly 50000 square meters of murals have been handed down. A wide range of folk sports were usually as the theme of these murals,心情日志,香港六合彩, including archery, wrestling, swimming and Wushu (martial art), acrobatics and so on, even some Olympic events can find their origin from these murals.

Archery

To train the soldiers,魔域私服,魔剑缘（十九）, the government of Han Dynasty held the competition for archery annually,香港六合彩, which was part of a traditional military system. Every participant was allowed to shoot 12 arrows in the competition; with more than 6 arrows hitting in the target the participant would be given a prize of money,传奇私服, furloughs or a promotion.

Basically,香港六合彩, archery in Han Dynasty has already possessed the attributes of modern athletic sports, very close to the archery competition of Olympics.