Advocating "sports power" is the basic point of Ma Yuehan's sports thought and practice, and it is also his lifelong pursuit. Ma Ying, who lived in the period of internal troubles and foreign invasion, insisted on the political proposition that "a strong country must dominate", gave up medicine and obeyed the body, trying to make people physically and mentally strong through sports, so as to achieve the purpose of saving the country. In the practice of physical education teaching, he always told students to "exercise well, be brave, don't be afraid, be energetic and study hard." Don't let others push you, you'll fall down ... We must have spirit, and don't let others call China "the sick man of East Asia".
He advocated that physical education in Tsinghua University should train students to "acquire enough health knowledge and have the spirit of fighting to the end, serving the society and improving the status of the country", so that students can realize that physical education is a valuable and extremely important education, which is not only a kind of entertainment, but also a great need for national development. Although this has a certain influence in Tsinghua University, under the oppression of "three mountains", the sports concept of "strengthening the country and enriching the people" is to save the suffering people and nation of China. Under his advocacy, Tsinghua University put forward the slogan "Strive for the health of the motherland for 50 years" and put it into practice, which truly realized his sports thought of strengthening the country and enriching the people.
2. Physical education thoughts of physical and mental education
Professor Ma has always believed that the main purpose of exercise is not to exercise strong wrists and legs. Exercise cannot be a simple skill training. Physical education is the best way to educate the body and mind. He said: "First, exercise can promote the growth and development of bones and muscles; Second, it can promote the health of internal organs and nerves; Third, it helps to cultivate excellent quality and good habits. Therefore, sports can be studied from three aspects: body, health and education. " Ma Yuehan thinks sports is perfect: "Sports activities include all functional aspects of life-sports, intellectual education, social morality and so on." Ma Yuehan advocated the concept of physical and mental education, emphasizing that physical education is an important part of education.
He believes that physical education is one of the three major education. At the same time, physical education also includes the educational content of "morality, intelligence and physique". In the process of special physical education teaching, the three are unified. As can be seen from Tsinghua University's work objectives, the concept of physical and mental education advocated by Ma Yun has been implemented in Tsinghua. From 1928 to 1948, Tsinghua University sports has two tasks: "First, make students healthy; Second, conduct moral education for students. " Under the leadership of Ma Yuehan, Tsinghua University has always insisted on physical education and psychological education as its own responsibility, and has formed distinct characteristics of physical education and psychological education. Tsinghua University has made remarkable achievements in physical education and psychological education, and has trained a large number of outstanding talents such as Ronggaotang and Jiangnan Xiang.
3. Sports value transfer theory
"The transfer value of sports" is the essence and the most wonderful part of Ma Yuehan's sports thought. He put forward and demonstrated that "the transfer value of sports" is the key for his sports thoughts to gain academic value and historical position. Ma Yuehan pointed out that the development of physical, psychological (personality) and social adaptation (morality) obtained through sports will not be limited to the field of sports, but will affect the whole life path in the future, that is, all aspects of development obtained through sports, especially moral quality, will be actively transformed into all aspects of people's work, study and life, that is, sports has migration value. "The educational value of sports is not limited to the playground, but also affects the whole society."
Sports can promote the development of participants' intelligence, the formation of good moral character and the cultivation of excellent moral quality. Of course, the proliferation of "sports champions", commercialization tendency, inappropriate physical education teaching methods and evaluation and supervision system will all affect the transfer of sports value. Ma Yuehan pointed out, "The reasons and methods for the generation of virtue and the formation of bad quality are the same. Unmanaged sports will undoubtedly produce unnecessary qualities. Whether the result is good or bad, it will have a migration effect. " Therefore, Ma Yuehan advocates that school physical education must be guided and managed reasonably and its development must be guided correctly. He advocated that "the goal of sports should be to provide everyone with an opportunity to make their behavior beneficial to their physique, be encouraged and satisfied psychologically, and become noble people in society". He opposes the tendency of excessive competition and commercialization of school sports, because such sports activities will lead to the development of students' character and quality in a bad direction, and will also have a negative impact on other aspects of their lives.