| （Department of Physical Education，Hengyang Normal University，Hengyang 421008，China) Abstract: The category of “physical strength” originated from people’s procedural dynamic description about doing pro-ducing and living practice by holding a production tool called “Lei” (an ancient plough) by hand. In people’s ideology and actual action, “physical strength” has gone through such a negation of negation process of transition as being valued – be-ing not valued – being valued. Currently “physical strength” is at a stage of being valued again. The essence of the cate-gory of “physical strength” is understood as follows: 1) it is a category existing relatively with “intelligence” (sedentary); 2) it has a targeted object – oneself or the outside world, and the targeted object varies in different periods; 3) it describes, explains and predicts the external dynamic performance (i.e. action) of the body as it moves; 4) it is a category of cross re-search of such disciplines as military science, social medicine, architecture and health science; 5) it has two research direc-tions, one of which is outward, the other is inward. Factors that affect the transition of the category of “physical strength” include political, military, cultural and technological factors, especially technological factors.
Key words: sports anthropology；the category of physical strength；physical quality |
