The Reasons For The Decline Of Children's Folk Sports Games

By adopting the method of field survey, interviews and documents study, this paper makes a systematic and in-depth study of reasons of the decline of children's folk sport games and strategy of protection and promotion of children's folk sport games .It is an indisputable fact that the physical health of the children in our country is in decline, which is fundamentally caused by the fact that the chances of the outdoor activities and physical exercise for children are reduced. This paper argues that the decline of folk sports games is a main reason. The technology progress leads to the widespread of television and computer, which changes the people's leisure style greatly. While being indulged in television programs and internet games, the children spend less time in doing outdoor activities, which is the fundamental reason of the decline of children's folk sports games. Parents are too soft on their only children, worrying that their children will be injured in the folk sport games and preventing them from playing folk sport games. The opinion of"marks are above everything"makes parents regard the children who enjoy playing games as bad children. The industrial development leads to the enormous destruction and pollution of natural environment, which seriously shrink the place in which children can play game freely. The decrease of the numbers of peer partners and the expansion of residential area makes it harder for the formation of the youth groups that play the folk sports game. There are other reasons that cause the decline of folk sports game for the children, such as gambling, the reduction of activity area, the lack of environment and conditions to play games. Government's administrative intervention and the examination-oriented education system exert great influences on the folk sports games for children. At the same time, western sports make a tremendous impact on the folk sports for Chinese. To sum up, all the reasons mentioned above result in the decline of Chinese folk sports games for children.On the basis of the analysis of the above and the combination with the current situation, this paper puts forward the following measures for the protection and development of China's children's folk sports games: firstly, to change concepts and educate people with science, which means that society should deal with the safety of children correctly and rectify their erroneous concepts about education and talents upbringing. Secondly, to provide a suitable place for the children to play folk sports games. The environment should be protected in order to retain the blue sky, white clouds and green grass for the children. Besides, outdoor activity centre and organization should be set up so that the children can play together. Thirdly, society should offer strong support, actively encourage and organize children to participate in folk sports games, which can be carried out in five aspects: First, to introduce folk sports games into physical education in schools. Second, to guide children allocate leisure time rationally and encourage them to participate in outdoor activities. Third, parents should take children to participate in the folk sports games which brought them happiness long years ago. Fourth, to organize children to conduct the folk sports games with local characteristics in festivals. Fifth, the local governments should take measures to protect the folk culture of the region by organizing the folk sports games with local characteristics...