1, exercise can promote the formation of good living habits;

2. Promote people's socialization by providing social norm education and trying social roles;

3. By promoting the formation of personality;

4. Playing the role of sports in promoting the formation and development of personality can inhibit the development of personality and cultivate enterprising spirit.

Cultural function of sports: As a practical activity, the cultural value of sports represented by the Olympic Games lies in people's own value, that is, people's comprehensive, free and harmonious development, which is the harmonious unity of individual personality and social personality.

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The source of the movement:

In ancient Greece, games, wrestling and gymnastics were once listed as educational contents. 17 ~ 18 century, hunting, swimming, mountain climbing, running and jumping were added to western education, but there was no unified name. At the end of 18, German J.C.F Gutz Jordan Mutch once classified and integrated these activities, which were collectively called "gymnastics".

In the school, more and more sports beyond the original scope of gymnastics have been gradually developed, and a new concept of "physical education is education through physical activities" has been established. Therefore, for quite a period of time, the words "gymnastics" and "sports" coexisted, mixed with each other and quite confused. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that they gradually became known as "sports" internationally.

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