Ma Yuehan Cup is a traditional student activity in Tsinghua University. The aim is to improve students' physical fitness, fully develop sports spirit and strive to create a positive and healthy sports atmosphere. This is inseparable from Ma Yun's sports thought. His thoughts and practice of school physical education not only made outstanding contributions to campus physical education in Tsinghua University, but also laid the foundation for the development of campus physical education in China. By analyzing the thoughts of Ma Yuehan Cup and John, this paper points out their enlightenment to school physical education, and puts forward some suggestions and views on the development of school physical education in China.

The current competition system of Ma Yuehan Cup was established from 1997 to 1998. At first, there were only three major events: team race, cross-country race and track and field race; 1998- 1999 school year includes 14 major projects; From 1999 to 2000, 24 sports events and 3 exhibition events were held this school year. After more than ten years' development, the events of this year's Horse Cup include nearly 40 Olympic events, national traditional sports and leisure sports.

Tsinghua University team competition should take the "Ma Yuehan Cup" as the leader, the competition as the main line, the events and physical education courses set by individual sports associations as the main competition content, and the setting principles of freshman sports meeting, marathon cross-country race and graduate sports meeting as the support to form a year-round competition mechanism. Tsinghua University has a special Ma Yuehan Cup Student Games Competition Committee, which is composed of the director, deputy director, secretary-general, deputy secretary-general and members. In addition, the director of the Sports Department of Tsinghua University was specially hired as a consultant to provide professional guidance for the competition.

According to the actual situation, the Ma Yuehan Cup is independently undertaken by the sports association, independently undertaken by the department, and jointly undertaken by the sports association and the department; Ma Yuehan Cup Freshmen Games, track and field events and team events are jointly organized by members of the competition committee. Since 2000, Ma Yuehan Cup Cross Country Race and Marathon have become the events of Beijing International Marathon. At present, there are 29 registered individual sports associations in Tsinghua University; Students in 32 departments of the school have physical education departments; The youth league Committee, student union and graduate student association of the school also have departments in charge of sports. Qi Xin, a sports organization at all levels, worked together to offer suggestions for the smooth development of the Ma Yuehan Cup Freshmen Games.