夏令營對現代青年學子而言是耳熟能詳的，且大多有機會去親身體驗。然 而在抗戰期間，這種以青年為主要訓練對象的夏令營是種新穎的方式，由國民 黨所設的三民主義青年團在中國境內開始舉辦。本文主要目的，在於探究當時 為何舉辦此項活動?其方法為何?又有哪些內容? 從史料當中發現，青年團成立是為了訓練青年，舉辦夏令營的宗旨是，集 合信仰三民義的有志青年，予以嚴格教練、最好的學習，以補平時德、智、體 三育，尤其是體育的不足，以求達到三民主義最終的實現。 夏令營的舉辦當時是由蔣中正下手諭，指示團員皆應入營受訓，因此中央 幹事部於是擬定計劃，並決定利用暑假籌設青年團，開始時擇定重慶、成都兩 地試辦，並行文調集兩城市附近的專上學校，造冊提報參加名單。也就是當時 是採由上而下的命令方式實施。 夏令營主要包括七種課程，若單就時數而言，以體育課占有51小時最 多，符合當初舉辦的宗旨。然而，若細究其他課程，當中精神訓話12小時、 研讀團長訓詞8小時、黨團務課36小時、一般政治課程36小時，對青年的 思想訓練更是重視。 綜合而言，青年團的成立本身就隱含政治色彩，在抗戰時期一則要團結青 年，一則要青年具備強健體魄，為國服務。因此，夏令營的舉辦也就在思想與 體格的訓練上著手，以期最終達到抗戰建國的使命。

　　　　　Summer camp was a new concept when the Kuomintan first implemented in China during second world war through its Youth group. The aim of this project is to find out the reason and method of holding such a camp and what is it all about. We realised it from the documents that the Youth group and summer camp were established for the reason of gathering aspiring young people who believe in Dr. Sun Yat Sen's doctrines for rigorous and the best training in addition to the normal education. The commencing of the summer camp was ordered by the top official. Mr. Chiang Kai Shek instructed all members of the Youth group should join the camp for training, the central committee then planned and decided to establish a Youth group in that summer holiday. The first down to high schools and colleges nearby the two cities to collect participant lists. The summer camp mainly included seven kind of lessons. Physical education was the largest part which occupied 51 hours, well served the purpose of the camp. However, other lessons including mentality speech (12hrs), learning of indoctrination (8hrs), party and group matters (36hrs), common political lesson (36hrs) had a total of 92 hours which meant more stress on mentality training in fact. In conclusion, summer camp was to train up young people both mentally and physically in react to the war, while the Youth group participate of the nature of politics was to unite them to join the training.