The Study Of The History, Current Development And Strategy Of Folk Customs Of Sports In Western Hunan

China's folk customs of sports is an important part of traditional Chinese culture and enriches it as well. Dragon-boat contest, lion dance, whipping top, rubber-band skipping, sandbag thowing, swing, kite-flying, shuttlecock..., all of them are included in our national folk sports,which is also an essential part of our nation's excellent culture and possesses unique function in body-building and entertaining. It has a long history, various flexible forms in performance and brilliant national features, and it also inherits and imparts Chinese national spirit, which inspires and encourages her posterity's courage and bravery, showing her eternal and limitless charm. Now, with the daily addition to all kinds of folk sports, it is striding toward a wider road. It plays a very important role in the social integration and has a key position and potential in the development of our sports in future, especially in minor ethical regions.Based on a large quantity of historical documents, experts'interview, on-the-spot investigation and logic analysis, this article has described the essence of folk culture in western Hunan as a cauldron of many ethical groups from its local, national and historical aspects with folk customs of sports in western Hunan as the subject and has investigated its present development and studied its functions, characteristics, but has been transmitted and developed into a better state in a long historic period. However, it has suffered from bottleneck in its inheritance and development these recent declares, due to the importance of western sports and development of modern sports. What's more, people now live a busy life, and there is a lack of and a high expense at labor, all of which make people not have enough energy to participate in folk sports. According to the survey and study of its present development, how to exploit and take advantages of folk sports to promote the development of all-people-involved body-building and perform its social function; how to play a part in social and cultural integration to maintain benign social operation; how to make sports in our province achieve glory; all these are questions worth being enquired into. This article puts forward strategies and proposal accordingly to awaken people's awareness and acceptance of folk sports by starting with theoretical study and intensity of education so that we can reach our goal of our precious cultural heritage's protection and inheritance. Thus our folk sports'development can have enough social attention and fulfill its deserved function in culture. Besides, this article provides people with practical references in sports'development and enrichment. It can be fully developed in a falling-behind region of a mixture of many ethical peoples. At last, I hope it can play a more and more important part in building people's body, promoting social harmony and socialistic cultural construction and so on.