摘要

The coloured drawings and brick paintings discovered as a result of archaeological excavations along the Hexi Corridor on China's Silk Road represent certain historical phenomena. In this paper, sports and leisure activities depicted on the brick paintings and their symbolic meanings, set in the WeiJin historical environment, are examined. These paintings reflect both the facts and the essence of the sports culture in the WeiJin period (AD 220420) in China, so as to make up for the deficiency of the surviving documents. It is apparent in the brick paintings found in WeiJin tombs on the Silk Road that sports and leisure activities were widely prevalent 1700 years ago. These paintings offer reliable evidence for research on the development of these ancient sports.

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