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Ties of theWrestling of the Dong nationality is popular in the Dong villages such as Sizhai, Kengdong, Zhaigao and Huanggang in Shuangjiang Township, Liping County, Guizhou Province. It is a sports activity mixed with martial arts and recreation. It is quite different from the styles of the international or the Chinese or the other national wrestlings. Firstly, the folklore characteristics is striking. It is being carried on in the atmosphere of playing the reed-pipe instrument, trampling by singing in the central room and setting off blunderbus and firecrackers. It has cultural background and connotations of its own. Secondly, it has unique sports characteristics and custom rules. Wrestling of the Dong nationality is more civilized. Its skill characteristics is using only the back, the waist and the legs, not using the hands. Thirdly, it is combined with arts. The Liping County Party Committee and the Liping County Government have made it a rule that excellent traditional physical education like wrestling of the Dong nationality should be led into classrooms of the school P. E. and health courses. Wrestling of the Doing nationality is regarded as an important content sourse of the P. E. courses and it is being developed and used.Sizhai Village in Liping County is famous for its wrestling of the Dong nationality. Sizhai lies in the southeastern part of Shuangjiang Township, Liping County, Guizhou Province. It is 2 kilometers away from this village to the seat of the township government. Sizhai River, which lies in the upper reaches of Duliujiang River, flows around the village. The whole village administers 7 villager groups,4 natural stockaded villages. There are 365 households and 1670 people in the village. It is a pure Dong village. Its representative architecture is drum-towers and flower bridges. Its representative entertainment is the great songs and wrestling of the Dong nationality. Its national festivals in Sizhai Village include the Spring Festival, March 3rd, the Wrestling Festival on March 15th, the Bullfighting Festival, June 6th, Eating the newly-harvested Grain Festival and the Mid-autumn Festival. The most lively and grand festivals are Wrestling Festival on March 15th and the Bullfighting Festival. The unique local conditions of the Dong nationality are strong. In 2006,it was among the national villages to be protected by the county. On October 14th,2004, Shuangjiang Township was elected the 7th-batch advanced township of hundreds of millions of farmers'body-building because of the wrestling of the Dong nationality. In 2007, the wrestling of the Dong nationality won the first prize in the performances of "the Rich and Colourful Guizhou" performing activities. In 2007, in the 6th National Traditional Sports Meeting of the Ethnic Miinorities, the wrestling of the Dong nationality won the first prize.Therefore, we must make a key on-the-spot survey and research in the birthplace, Sizhai Village of the wrestling of the Dong nationality, study systematically the original culture of the wrestling of the Dong nationality and further strengthen the study of the national and folk P. E. culture. It has theoretical value by enriching and improving the research on the Chinese traditional P. E. history, the social culture and historical culture of the Dong nationality. Bringing the social, economical and cultural functions of the traditional unique folk P. E. item, the wrestling of the Dong nationality into full play has important practical significance. It also has important real value to carry forward the traditional P. E. culture of the national minorities and to promote the development of the body-building activi nation.