近代體育承上啟下
中國(guó)的近代體育，是指1840年鴉片戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)到1949年中華人民共和國(guó)成立前這一歷史時(shí)期的體育。它雖然只有一百多年的歷 史，但卻是一個(gè)起著承上啟下作用的重要階段。
Modern Period (1840-1949)
Though covering a little more than a century, the Modern Period from 1840 when the Opium War began to 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was founded, was an important intermediate phase as far as the Chinese history of sport is concerned.
偉大的民主革命先行者孫中山先生（1866—1925）主張“夫欲圖國(guó)家之堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，必先求國(guó)民體力之發(fā)達(dá)�！边@是他的題詞：“強(qiáng)國(guó)強(qiáng)種”。
Handwriting by the great democratic revolutionary Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925). It reads:“ Make our nation and race storg.”
毛澤東（1893——1976）從青年時(shí)代起，就積極提倡體育，主張德、智、體并重�！扼w育之研究》是他青年時(shí)代的一篇著作，原載于1917年4月1日《新青年》雜志，署名為“二十八畫(huà)生”。
A passage from “A study of Physical Culture” by Mao Zedong (1893-1976) published in New Youth on April 1, 1917. He points out on the essay that equal attention should be paid to moral, intellectual and physical education.