传统体育的继承与发扬
在近代时期，西方体育传入中国以后，中国传统的体育除了少数项目失传以外，多数都被继承和流传下来，诸如武术、导引术、棋类活动、摔跤、龙舟、马球等。它们与西方体育传来的体育项目及竞赛方法相互融合，彼此吸收，构成了中国近代体育的特点。
The Development of Traditional Sports
Following the introduction of Western physical culture into China, most of its traditional sports were kept alive during the Modern Period. Among these were the martial art of wushu, daoyin exercises, various chess games, wresting, the dragon-boat rowing and polo. They developed in combination with the imported sports and with reference to their methods of competition, thus forming a physical culture in which the old met the new and the East met the West.
著名武术家霍元甲（1857——1910）为实现“欲使国强，非从文尚武不可”的主张，1910年在上海创办的中国第一所武术学校——精武学堂，后来发展为精武体育会。这是霍元甲和他当年练功用过的石锁、七节鞭。
Huo Yuanjia (1857-1910) and the apparatus he used in wushu training—a seven-section whip and a stone padlock for weighlifting. An advocate of martial arts as a means to make the nation strong, he founded the Jingwu Academy in Shanghai—the first of its kind in China—which developed into a sports association.
精武体育会以“从文尚武”为主旨，积极普及和提高武术。图为1916年该会派教师在上海中华铁路学校传授武术的情景。
Wushu masters were sent by Jingwu Academy to teach at many schools, including Zhonghua Railway School in Shanghai (Photo taken in 1916).
1927年，由著名武术家张之江（左图）（1882-1969）发起，并正式组建的中央国术馆，是官方武术机构。这是1928年10月，中央国术馆举办的第一次国术（武术）考试开幕式的合影。
Zhang Zhijiang(1882-1969,left picture),founder of the Central Wushu Academy,which organized the first wushu contest in October 1928,Picture above shows the opening ceremony.
体育爱好者潘德明于1930年6月至1937年6月，采取徒步和骑自行车的方式环游世界，历经7载，途经40多个国家和地区。
Pan Deming traveled around the world on foot and bike in seven years from June 1930 to June 1937.
象棋，是中国古老的传统体育项目，历代相传。图为清末北京的二位棋手正在对弈。
The Chinese-style chess of xiangqi has enjoyed undecayed popularity from generation to generation.
马球颇受官兵们的喜爱。图为1935年在上海举行的第六届全国运动会上表演马球。
As a favorite sport in the army, polo aroused great interest at the Sixth National Games held in Shanghai in 1935.
1935年在上海举行的全国第六届运动会上的蒙古式摔跤场面。
Mongolian-style wrestling as demonstrated at the Sixth National Games held in Shanghai in 1935.