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The ancient Olympic Games were an event of four years with sporting activities as its main content and the cessation of hostilities among the city states of Greece as its main feature. In those days, China also experienced divisions from time to time. There was the period of Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and the period of the states that wars (475-221 BC) during the Zhou Dynasty before the First Emperor of Qin (259-210 BC) to unify the empire Chinese of the whole. After the Han dynasty (206BC-AD220), the main part of China was divided again during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), to be reunified under the Jin court. As in ancient Greece, was of course intervals of peace between wars among the states or kingdoms — not as a result of the proclamation of truce during the Olympic Games which were non-existent in ancient China, but as a result of maneuvers diplomatic or military deterrent forces. After all, there is the universal law of "split after long unity and unity that after the party is over," as Chinese philosophers put it. However, the lack of games does not necessarily mean non-existence of sports. As a matter of face, there are sports whenever and wherever human activities. The man should take the sport to keep fit for survival and for fun after work. To gather food, hunters in the palaeolithic times not only invented tools, such as stone axes, balls, hooks, spear points and networks, but also learned how to use them more efficiently, knowing that only a constitution and the strongest ability to run and swim faster, jump higher and to throw a projectile farther and with greater precision could they catch more game and fish. This was the origin of the current jump, the launch and swimming events which calculate such a large part in the Olympic Games today, and whose origin can be attributed only to human instincts that something of a race or an individual in a particular particular time. The stone balls excavated in the county of Gaoyang in China 's Shanxi Province dating from 100,000 years and is thought to have been used not only in hunting, but also in throwing skills as athletes do in shot putting today . Archery, another Olympic event, has appeared in the mythology of many nations. The odyssey that was to have killed his wife 's of suitors with his bow and arrows. A Chinese legend has it that during the Yao times many thousand years ago, a marksman named Hou Yi shot down nine of 10suns in the sky that had seared all plants on earth. Even today, the bows and arrows are still used among many ethnic groups in China as a weapon to kill animals and in archery as a popular sporting event. In ancient times men were devoted not only in flight with nature, but also in flight among themselves. Therefore sport has another aim: to improve the ability to beat the enemy, with or without weapons. During the rule of the Yellow Emperor, has been held as the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, a rebel tribe headed by Chiyou trained his warriors in fighting with cow horns fastened to the head, which was included in the "hundreds Amusements" and converted into various forms of struggle in subsequent generations. Military training in ancient China included all kinds of martial arts such as wrestling, boxing, fencing, tripodlifting, horse-racing, stone-throwing, swimming and searching. During the period of spring and autumn, a senior official in Qi state named Guan Zhong (? - 645 BC) ordered the building of pools leading water of three rivers and awarded heavy prizes to good swimmers among his "water troops." A copper pot excavated in Chengdu in Sichuan Province is inscribed with a battle on the water in those days. Among the Greeks there is note of occasional swimming races, and a famous boxer swam as part of their training. Sports also responded to almost military purposes in a ancient Greece, especially in Sparta where all citizens received the stoic military training from early childhood, in the same sports as in ancient China. According to historical records written during the period states that war, the Chinese kings and emperors ordered their officers to teach archery, charioteering, and struggling in the winter and "required the populace to spend six hours to two hours and grew practicing martial arts everyday. "The ancient Greek and Chinese civilizations shared another thing in common in sporting activities, ie, they were often combined with dancing. A pot in the Neolithic Age excavated in Qinghai Province 's Datong County shows the inner surface in three groups of dancers. It is said that at those times China was hit by frequent torrential rains and floods and people suffered a lot of wet weather charms intact. To relax the bones and muscles tighten and dispel their gloomy moods, bailarían a dance class that "could lead the flow of blood and vital energy in the body." The military training also included dances and there Sparta choreographic competitions was in the ancient Olympic Games. I really had little or no difference between physical exercises and dances like the case with such modern sports as figure skating and artistic and rhythmic gymnastics. What should be marked here is that sports were included in the educational system in ancient China and Greece. During the Zhou Dynasty and the previous Xia (21st — sixteenth century BC) and Shang (sixteenth — dynasties of the eleventh century BC), all seats of learning were at the same time places for teaching martial arts. The great Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551-479 BC) were also good athlete in archery and charioteering and took an active part in fishing, hunting, hiking and hill-climbing. Giving equal attention to moral, intellectual and physical development of its 3,000 pupils, he created an educational system of "Six Arts," namely, rituals, music, archery, charioteering on, writing and mathematics, which were further each other. In archery, for example, he insisted on proper conduct, or what we call "sportsmanship" today, stating that an archer should do his best to win and what 's more important, "be modest and observe rituals." In addition, he advised people to observe a good dietary habit, to abstain from meat dish and let the old and make a meal. These guiding principles were similar to those of the great Greek philosopher Plato (428-348 BC) who held that physical training and sanitation should feel good to important parts of education and that one must train their sports and shape up with his temper with music. Curriculum in his time included gymnastics, which was widened to embrace hygiene and dietetics. The Greek gymnasium also taught philosophy, literature and music, and public libraries were nearby. It is interesting to note that Chinese educators and Greeks in ancient times emphasized that physical training should be tailored to various ages. According to the work Li Ji (Book of rites), children of the classic Chinese must learn the "dances" civil in 13, "Dance" martial, at 15, and archery and charioteering at older ages. Plato also advocated different sports for different age groups — music and singing for 7-12, dancing, fighting, archery and horsemanship for 12-17 and more physical training for 17-20.Whether out of necessity or the historical contingency, sports in ancient China and Greece were closely combined with productive work, military training, dancing and the whole educational system, thus providing an ideological foundation for China 's list of acceptance of the Olympic ideals modern, which were deeply rooted in classical Greek society, despite the cessation of the centuries of Olympic Games for15.

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