水戲
水戲，主要包括游泳和龍舟競渡等水上運(yùn)動形式。它源于原始人類的漁獵生產(chǎn)活動。在歷史的發(fā)展過程中，由于軍事上的需要，提高了水上運(yùn)動的技術(shù)水平；而與民間節(jié)日活動的緊密結(jié)合，又豐富了水上運(yùn)動的形式，因而是具有民族特色的傳統(tǒng)體育的重要組成部分。
Aquatic Sports
In ancient times, swimming and rowing grew out of the needs for fishing and fighting on water and developed, usually in connection with festivals, into sporting activities with a strong national colour, such as the dragon-boat race.
游泳圖壁畫甘肅省敦煌市莫高窟第420窟壁畫
隋 581——618
這幅壁畫表現(xiàn)了一群活潑健美、生氣勃勃的習(xí)水善泅者的形象。
Swimming among lotus flowers: A mural in Mogao Grotto No. 257 in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, built in the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534).
游泳圖壁畫西藏拉薩市布達(dá)拉宮壁畫
清 1644——1911
畫面描繪了習(xí)水游泳者的各種姿態(tài)，人物活潑生動，形象逼真。
Churning through the waves: A Qing mural in Potala in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.
龍舟競渡紋銅鉞1976年浙江省鄞縣出土
春秋 公元前770——前475
銅鉞一面的紋飾中，上部刻有雙龍圖案，下部為一組插羽飾的劃船者。這是一幅反映龍舟競渡活動的畫面。
A bronze axe in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475), excavated in 1976 in Yinxian County, Zhenjiang Province, with the upper part of the design showing a pair of dragons and the lower part some dragon-boat rowers wearing feathered headgear.
龍舟競渡紋銅鼓1976年廣西貴縣羅泊灣出土
西漢 公元前206——公元25
鼓胸有羽人劃船紋六組，每組5、6 人，栩栩如生。
A bronze drum unearthed in 1976 in Guixian County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25), depicting six crews in a dragon-boat race.
龍舟競渡紋銅鼓紋飾展開圖1972年廣西西林縣普馱屯出土
西漢 公元前206——公元25
Another Western Han drum with a design of dragon boats, excavated in 1972 in Xilin County, Guangxi Province.