(1.School of Physical Education,Shandong Normal University,Jinan 250014,China;2.Guangdong Academy Education,Guangzhou 510035,China;3.Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China) Abstract: The authors collated the rising and developing of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta re-gion since modern times, and summarized the following: after the Opium War, such men of vision as HE Jian-wu, KANG You-wei and LIANG Qi-chao in the Pearl River Delta region put forward the opinion about comprehensive moral, intelligent and physical education, held “school sports” games that had an epoch-making significance in the Pearl River Delta region and even in the history of China based on the spirit of “dare to be the first”, and initiated the course of modernization of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta region, which had gone through difficult times in the Republic of China period, exploration after the founding of China, and comprehensive pro-gressing after reform and opening. Nowadays, the structure of modernization of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta region has taken into shape. Key words: sports history;school physical education;Pearl River Delta;school sports modernization;modern times |