The rising and developing of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta region since modern times

The authors collated the rising and developing of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta region since modem 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 progressing after reform and opening. Nowadays, the structure of modernization of school physical education in the Pearl River Delta region has taken into shape.