歷來研究《左傳》者大多著重在當時的政治、戰爭、朝聘、盟會、外交辭令或左傳修辭等方面的探討，尟少對其中的遊樂活動進行較深入的探討，本文試著將《左傳》中的遊樂活動分成娛樂、競技與節慶等三大類進行研究，從而發現春秋時代的遊樂活動其實是相當豐富而多樣的。但由於當時周天子已逐漸失去維繫諸侯的能力，各國諸侯紛起爭霸，政治情勢詭譎而複雜，因此使得原本應該是以「益智健身、愉悅身心」為主要目的的遊樂活動也暗藏著緊張的政治角力。

Most of conventional researchers studying Tso Chuan focus on subjects of politics, wars, pilgrimage, covenant, diplomatic language, and rhetoric. Very few researches were performed on recreation activities at that era in great detail before. This essay studies and classifies these recreation activities into three categories: entertainment, competition, and festival. As a result from the study, these recreation activities were found to be rich in content and much diversified in deed. However, due to the fact that emperor started to lose the control over his subordinates and kings from all countries fought with each other for the master position, the political situation became very tricky and complicated. As a consequence of this political turmoil, recreation activities originally targeted at improving metal and physical health, entertaining body and mind, were contaminated with implicit political struggling.