Gymnastics, as the official event of the first ancient Greek Olympic Games, has a long history. It evolved from folk acrobatics and fighting skills.

Gymnastics originated in ancient Greece and originated from the Greek word fitness. The ancient Greeks practiced gymnastics to strengthen their physique. The Athenians believed that unless the body was exercised, the spirit was unhealthy. They think that exercise is a powerful means to prevent diseases.

Different Greek city-states have different understandings of this sport: Spartans value courage, endurance and strong physical quality most, and they take fitness as a habit formed from childhood and participate in competitions.

With the decline of Greek civilization and the rise of Romans, gymnastics became a formal sport. The Romans believed that sports was an important means to achieve military goals. Therefore, early soldiers in Rome and China only learned gymnastics to keep healthy and gain an advantage in military operations.

Sculptors in the Han Dynasty practiced jujitsu, which was the predecessor of gymnastics and integrated elements such as dance, wrestling and wrestling.

After the Middle Ages, gymnastics entered a stage unknown for thousands of years, because the strong Christian asceticism in the early Middle Ages prohibited Europeans from practicing gymnastics. In the Middle Ages, only dance troupes, acrobats and acrobats' tour groups continued to practice wrestling and gymnastics.

Modern gymnastics first appeared during the Enlightenment in Europe, aiming at making citizens serve the country and the army healthier and better.

German educator Guzm is known as the godfather of gymnastics, and he published the training methods of gymnastics. This paper systematically expounds the harm of gymnastics overtraining to human body. Gymnastics training should attach importance to physical health and skill beauty, and learn from rhythmic gymnastics. With the modernization of gymnastics, Germany has pushed this sport to the forefront.

Friedrich of Germany invented many events in gymnastics, such as balance beam and vault. He is called "the father of modern gymnastics". Gymnastics flourished in Germany in the19th century, while in Sweden, G? tzmos developed a more beautiful form of sports, emphasizing artistic sports, which was the predecessor of rhythmic gymnastics.