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Study On The Status Quo And Development Of The Traditional Festival Sports In China

Posted on:2009-05-10Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J S YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360302470964Subject:Humanities and sociology
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Traditional festivals play a great role in Chinese culture. Sports are the main content of the festival activities. It is like a mirror reflecting the culture and thinking essence of our Chinese nation. They cultivate life, creativity and cohesion of our country, and help sustain long-lasting prosperity and development of our culture. In today's world, with the process of globalization and modernization developing at a higher and higher speed, our traditional festival is gradually being taken lightly. Traditional sports have also changed. It has become a new issue in sociology of sports and humanism for us to study about how to inherit and push forward our traditional festival sports, and develop our splendid culture profoundly.This article mainly uses Literature Review, Logical Analysis, Comparison, Demonstration Study(Observation and Investigation,Interview,Case Study). It is a full-scale and systemic study about traditional festival sports of our nation. And it aims at building the theory of our traditional sports primarily, acquainting the present situation of social sports, and setting strategy and mode for the future development of our traditional festival sports, in hope of enriching the content of the theory about social and national sports, and providing reference to the related departments. We hope that traditional and folk sports of our nation can be inherited and developed, and we can make full use of our traditional festivals to carry forward our splendid culture and glorious tradition.Sports of our traditional festival refer to the sports and activities that are held during traditional festivals and have some form of traditional mode. They have the features like periodical, national, regional, inheritable, transformable, ceremonial, and recreational; among them the essence is nationality. Our traditional sports can inherit the culture of our national and folk sports, and can develop good tradition and improve cognition of our national culture, as a result enhance cohesion of our nation. They can also help people learn the criterion of the society, develop moral education, balance physical and mental health, and keep harmony through entertainment. They can lead to discovery of folk tourism resources, development of regional economy, enrichment of community cultural life, and establishment of the new countryside. They also have the functions of accelerating body growth, and improving overall health.The main events of our national festival sports are located as follows: dragon-boat racing is mainly in the South, around the drainage area of Huai River, Yangzi River, ZhuJiang River; Horse-racing, wrestling and toxophily are mainly in the west region of our country; Swing is mainly in the mountain area of Xinjiang Yili, Tacheng, Aletai, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan Province and Hunan Xiangxi. Tug-of-war is mainly adopted in the region of Tibetan and Kazakhstan minorities. Dragon-dancing,Lion-dancing,Yang Ge are distributed countrywide. According to the regional culture theory and the features of our national folk sports and regional difference, we can divide the cultural regions of our traditional festival sports into six groups: the northwestern nomadism cultural region, the northeastern ice and snow cultural region, the northern dry farming cultural region, the western rice farming cultural region, the southwest mountainous cultural region, and Tibetan plateau cultural region. And we are able to analyses the cultural differences between each one of them.The status in quo of our traditional festival sports is that, as one of the folk tourism resources, they have been greatly developed by related departments. And the combination of traditional festival sports and modern daily exercise activities has been inherited and pushed forward. Traditional sports and competitive sports are combining with each other and have been developed to some extent. But on the other hand, we should notice that with the accelerating process of globalization and modernization, our traditional festival sports is gradually declining and diminishing. We must face the problem that exotic culture is affecting our national festival sports, oneness of sports competitions'rule is diluting the diversity of our national culture about traditional sports, and unreasonable development of tourism resources is distorting our traditional sports. In a word, in the field of conserving our traditional festival sports, the current situational is not optimistic.Our main pattern of developing traditional festival sports is to combine them with tourism industry, realistic life style, sport competition, and conservation of cultural relics.The combination with tourism industry mainly focuses on popularizing elite, carrying forward outstanding characteristics, cultivating persons with ability, improving quality, and sustainable developing. The combination with daily life mainly focuses on legitimizing traditional festivals, promoting education on value of the traditional festival sports culture, reinforcing study on traditional sports, and promoting consciousness of our traditional culture. The combination with sports competition mainly focuses on formulating scientific and compact regulations for competition, and enhancing their impact in schools. This strategy should be lead by the government, and participated by the whole society. In the combination with conservation of cultural relics, we should take advanced foreign experience; and strive for confirmation of non-material cultural relics by our country. At the same time, government should carry out relative rules and regulations, have an extensive investigation on traditional festival sports, and build up museums of national folk sports.
Keywords/Search Tags:China, traditional festivals sports, status in quo, model of the development, strategies of the development
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