| (1.School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China；2.School of Physical Education，Fujian Normal University，Fuzhou 350007，China；3.Tianjin Museum，Tianjin 300201，China；4.School of Physical Education，Huazhong Normal University，Wuhan 430079，China) Abstract: Hammer throw is always deemed as originating from Scotland, but a recently found portrait brick painted in the Western Jin dynasty showed the earliest form of hammer throw in China. From the perspectives of history, geography and philosophy, the authors closely examined this portrait brick in order to probe into the origin of ham-mer throw, and concluded that it is quite a possibility that hammer throw originated from China.
Key words: sport history；origin of hammer throw；portrait brick；China |
