A Review of Studies on Sports Literatures of the Tang Dynasty

Abstract

This article adopts the methods of literature consultation, expert interview, induction,deduction and logical analysis to review the existing research findings of sports literature of the Tang Dynasty based on both relevant publications of predecessors and modern scholars and research papers in the past three decades. The results indicates that the researchers have been breaking new ground and making great achievement in terms of study on sports literature of the Tang Dynasty for decades. However, the current research status reveals various deficiencies, of which the concrete manifestations include the following three points:1) Imbalance of research effort: People pay much more attention to poetry than to prose (ode);2) Lots of superficial researches and repetitive researches presented few original views. It should be particularly noted that excessive attention has been given to some certain sports poems; as a result, the subjects of study were extremely simplex, concentrated or even repeated;3) Monotonous research techniques lead to obviously inadequate integral and systematic study.