Current Situation And Countermeasures On Square Dance In The Urban Areas Of Yancheng City

As one of the main art forms of the modern urban square culture, the square dance is quite popular all over China and meets the physical and mental needs of middle-aged and old women in urban areas for it has the effects of fitness, self-entertainment and leisure. At the same time, the disordered development of the square dance disturbs residents around and the noise produced by the square dance has led to the intensification of many social contradictions. To some extent, the disturbing effect of the square dance has already weakened its healthy and stable development. Documentation, questionnaires, on-the-spot investigations, interviews and so on are applied to the substantial investigation of the participants, the forms of team organization and disturbing phenomena of the square dance in the urban areas of Yancheng. The advantages and the difficulties during the development of the square dance in Yancheng are analyzed, local advantageous resources are found and effective ways to solve the difficulties are put forward.Conclusions: the main participants of the square dance in the urban areas of Yancheng are 40- 65 years old women with low education who mainly aim at invigorating their health and preventing diseases and take exercise in the evening and the early morning. Tangible exercise effects on the mind and body could be gained on the condition that about one hour every time is spent exercising every time and at least three times per week. The main originators of the square dance in the urban areas of Yancheng are those who have retired from every walk of life. The teams are mainly organized in the open form, in the closed form or in the semi-closed form. The tutors of teams usually teach themselves first by way of network videos. The teams of the square dance face such difficulties as the lack of space and equipment, the shortage of training opportunities for tutors, inadequate performances and competitions, etc. Urban residents have strengthened their rights awareness, and have applied negotiation mechanism of and legal remedy to settle disputes resulting from the disturbing of square dance. In the urban areas of Yancheng the disturbing square dance is often in the residential quarters or in the squares, parks or streets near residential quarters. Yancheng City City Square Dance Sports Development Countermeasures: scientific planning of urban functional area layout, reserved square dance venues; expand social forces, square dance training to achieve long-term and institutionalized; sports culture sector to play a geographical advantage to build local characteristics Square brand culture; strengthen publicity, positive guidance civilized citizen consciously safeguard public order; the formation of the government work together to square dance full-time management agencies, scientific and reasonable development of "Square dance Convention."...