The Olympic Movement and Beijing Olympic Games embody the spirit of participation, fair competition, equality, respect, understanding and tolerance, tenacious struggle, unity and cooperation, harmony and peace, and humanism. The Olympic spirit has been enriched and perfected for a hundred years, which embodies the values of human civilization and is of great significance to the construction of a harmonious society in China today.
Keywords: Olympic spirit; Olympic Games; harmonious society
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was warmly welcomed by the people of China. The reason why the Olympic Games can play a positive role in building a harmonious society in China lies in the preparation process of the Beijing Olympic Games and the promotion process of the Olympic spirit. The Olympic spirit has been enriched and perfected for a hundred years, which embodies the values of human civilization and is of great significance to the construction of a harmonious society in China today.
First of all, pay attention to the spirit of participation
Coubertin pointed out: "The important thing in life is to struggle rather than to win, and to do our best rather than to defeat others." He emphasized that the process of competition and struggle is more meaningful than the result of competition, and participating in the Olympic Games itself is more meaningful than winning. It laid the ideological foundation for the popularization and extensive participation of the Olympic Movement. From 65438 to 0908, at the 4th Olympic Games held in London, England, Italian marathon runner petrie struggled to finish the whole course, but didn't win a medal. At that time, the audience at the scene were moved by its spirit. Some viewers said: The most important thing in the Olympic Games is to participate, not to win. It is undoubtedly not in line with the Olympic spirit to understand that participating in the Olympic Games is just to win medals. The most important thing to participate in the Olympic Games is to truly reflect your own level. If you have done your best and played the biggest role, even if you don't win a medal, you should be regarded as a winner. Of course, we should try our best to win Olympic gold medals, but we should not judge heroes by the number of gold medals, and we should not concentrate all our energy on winning Olympic gold medals. The population participating in sports is still limited to a few athletes, and the Olympic spirit of hard participation should be well carried forward throughout the country.
Paying attention to the spirit of participation is of great significance for China to build a harmonious society. Through active participation, citizens exercise their democratic rights, manage grass-roots public affairs and public welfare undertakings, and exercise democratic supervision over cadres, which is the most effective and extensive way for the people to be masters of their own affairs and an important part of building a harmonious society. In the process of promoting democratic politics, if citizens cannot actively participate, it will be difficult to fully exercise their democratic rights and express their demands, which is not conducive to the promotion of grassroots democracy and the development of democratic politics. While citizens actively participate, it is necessary to create a social environment in which citizens actively participate. Only by creating an institutional environment for citizens' active participation can it be conducive to citizens' active participation and promote the construction of a harmonious society.
Second, the spirit of fair competition.
Fair competition is the basic form of the Olympic movement and one of the basic forms to promote the progress of human society. The Olympic Charter says: The purpose of the Olympic Movement is to educate young people with the Olympic spirit through sports activities without any discrimination, thus contributing to the establishment of a peaceful and better world. The main activity of the Olympic Games is competitive sports, and the contestants rely on their own strength to win within the scope permitted by the competition rules. Fair competition is the highest criterion of competitive sports, and only competition on the basis of fair competition is meaningful. Olympics advocates the principle of fair competition. The Olympic movement only recognizes winners who meet the principle of fairness. Once found, they will win by fraudulent means, taking illegal drugs, playing fake games, taking stimulants, bribing referees, bribing opponents, interfering with or even hurting opponents, and will be severely punished. The principle of fair competition is the code of conduct for participating in the Olympic Games and the basis for ensuring the sustainable development of the Olympic Movement. The healthy development of the Olympic movement is achieved by adhering to the principle of fair competition in the resolute struggle against all kinds of unfair competition.
The spirit of fair competition advocated by the Olympic Movement is the embodiment of the universal law of market economy in the field of sports. Since the reform and opening up, we have chosen the spirit of fair competition, which has been actively promoted in the continuous maturity and standardization of the market economic system. At the same time, we must realize that China's market economic system has been developed for a short time, the market economic system is imperfect, the political system reform is relatively backward, and the spirit of fair competition has not been well reflected in some fields, which is also an important factor affecting China's social justice. The spirit of fair competition permeates the political, economic, cultural and social development, which can further accelerate the pace of political system reform, improve the socialist market economic system and actively carry forward the spirit of fair competition, and has a very positive role in building a harmonious society.
Third, the spirit of equality.
The spirit of equality embodied in Olympism is the embodiment of freedom, equality and fraternity, one of the three most important values in human society, in the field of sports. The promotion and dissemination of the spirit of equality in Olympism is an important reason why the Olympic Movement can attract different colors and nationalities.
The equal spirit of the Olympic Movement is the most important principle in human social life. With the continuous improvement of China's market economy system, the principle of equality has also been greatly reflected in China. China has only been reforming and opening for 30 years. Due to the imperfection of the market economy system, the principle of equality has not been fully realized in some fields. The report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China expounds how citizens can realize equal rights politically and economically. In terms of civil and political rights, it is proposed that "human rights should be respected and guaranteed, and the rights of all members of society to participate and develop on an equal footing should be guaranteed according to law." It is suggested that urban and rural people should elect deputies to the National People's Congress according to the same proportion of the population. In terms of citizens' economic rights, it is proposed to "adhere to equal protection of property rights and form a new pattern of equal competition and mutual promotion of various ownership economies". From then on, the process of building a harmonious socialist society will be promoted. Fourth, the spirit of respect, understanding and tolerance
As an international sport, the Olympic Movement inevitably faces various cultural differences and the problems they bring. Athletes, coaches, sports officials and spectators from all over the world have different skin colors and different clothes; Different languages, different lifestyles and different religious beliefs, they express their feelings in different ways. These differences are often reinforced by conflicts between countries in political system, economic system and ideology. The Olympic Games will concentrate all the sports cultures in the world in a narrow space-time range, and the differences between different cultures are particularly significant. It may lead to conflict. The best way to avoid and solve conflicts is to respect, understand and tolerate.
Olympism's respect for different cultural differences is the primary factor that Olympism can attract all countries in the world to come together. However, it is not enough to respect only, but also to understand different cultural differences, so that respect can really come from the heart. Only by understanding the background of different cultures can people get rid of the prejudice brought by their own culture. Through understanding, people can break their narrow vision, know and understand things outside their own nation, realize the imagination and creativity of each nation, treat others and themselves objectively and fairly, humbly absorb the excellent elements of other cultures and respect other nations.
We should also learn to tolerate some incomprehensible or alien cultural phenomena. Only understanding and tolerance. In different cultures, what people see is not contradictions and conflicts, but different cultures of human society. Only when cultural differences become the driving force for people to communicate with each other and contradictions become the driving force for learning from each other can international exchanges advocated by the Olympic Movement be truly realized.
The spirit of respect, understanding and tolerance advocated by Olympism was once an important part of China's excellent traditional culture. With the return of China's excellent traditional cultural values, it is urgent to absorb these universal values of human civilization in order to promote the construction of a harmonious society. The spirit of respect, understanding and tolerance is of great significance to building a harmonious society. Respect itself embodies the profound humanistic spirit. Tolerance is a kind of cultivation, a realm and a virtue. Social life itself is rich and colorful, and there should not be only one model, one standard and one answer. A harmonious society must be a society in which the spirit of tolerance is fully embodied. Tolerance spirit is the recognition of cultural diversity and differences, and it needs to be vigorously promoted to build a harmonious society.
V. The spirit of tenacious struggle
"Swifter, higher and stronger" is the most familiar Olympic motto. Coubertin, the father of the Olympics, praised this concept and officially adopted it as the Olympic motto on 1920. "More, higher, stronger", just six words, fully expressed the spirit of the Olympic movement to keep forging ahead and never be satisfied; It not only means that in the arena, in the face of strong players, we dare to struggle and win, but also means that we are never satisfied with ourselves, constantly overcoming ourselves and challenging the limits.
Sixth, the spirit of unity and cooperation.
In the Olympic Games, the individual competitive ability of athletes is essentially a collective contest. Modern Olympics emphasizes the team spirit and cooperation spirit of "mutual understanding, friendship and unity" and hopes to "realize unity, unity and develop sports through sports". China table tennis has long occupied the dominant position in the world table tennis, and the China diving team is known as the "dream team". In addition to the hard training of athletes, it is more important to unite and cooperate with teammates, coaches and experts in physiology, psychology, medical care and nutrition. Team projects need the cooperation of the whole team. By playing the national anthem and raising the national flag, the Olympic Movement has consciously strengthened team consciousness and national spirit, and enhanced national cohesion.
Seven. The spirit of harmony and peace
Harmony and peace are the wealth of human life and the wish of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Charter emphasizes that sports is peace. The purpose of the Olympics is that sports should serve the harmonious development of people everywhere, so as to promote the establishment of a society that defends human dignity. The Olympic Truce Agreement, which lasted for more than 1000 years, is the longest-lasting peace treaty in human history. The modern Olympic movement continues to take "peace, friendship and progress" as its purpose. Coubertin sang enthusiastically in Ode to Sports, "You are peace! You have established a pleasant connection between all ethnic groups. " The Olympic five-ring flag symbolizes the great unity of the people on five continents. The two world wars and the "Cold War" once cast a political shadow over the Olympic Games. However, in the early 1980s, after Samaranch became the president of the International Olympic Committee, he began to devote himself to restoring the Olympic Truce system. Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has adopted the Olympic Truce Agreement every two years. 1998 During the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, the situation in the Gulf was unprecedentedly tense and war was imminent. At the opening ceremony, Samaranch called on all countries to abide by the truce resolution. The 62nd UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Olympic Truce resolution proposed by China and co-sponsored by 186 member countries. Holding the Beijing Olympic Games and holding high the banner of harmony and peace will not only help China to speed up the construction of a harmonious society; It is also conducive to improving the country's "soft power" and achieving peaceful development.
Eight, humanistic spirit
From the origin, the Olympic Movement has some ideas about human survival, development and liberation of the South. The harmonious development of mankind has become the theme of the ancient Greek Olympic Games. In the early days of the modern Olympic Games, Coubertin clearly pointed out that the goal of sports and competitions is to cultivate and bring up a complete and healthy modern personality with coordinated development of body and mind. The Charter of the Olympic Movement points out that Olympism is a philosophy of life that strengthens physique, will and spirit and makes them develop in an all-round way. It advocates "harmonious development of human beings" and "safeguarding human dignity", advocates the integration of human body, spirit and will, and promotes the all-round development of human beings through sports. In view of the alienation of the Olympic Games, Rogge injected new meanings on the basis of "faster, higher and stronger", emphasizing "cleaner, more humane and more United". The concept of "People's Olympics" in Beijing fully embodies the humanistic spirit of putting people first, caring about people's health and respecting people's lives. Sports is a culture, a spirit, a strength, a symbol and a spiritual pursuit. Whether it is reform and innovation, opening to the outside world, people-oriented, social harmony or scientific development, the Olympic spirit is of great practical and far-reaching significance to China today.