Study On Present Situation And Countermeasures To Carry Out National Traditional Health-keeping Sports Among Community Residents In Xuzhou City

Rich in ideas, cultural meaning and features of national character, Chinese traditional health-keeping sports is the essence of Chinese traditional culture. Based on ancient Chinese philosophy to purse strengthened body and prolonged life in harmony with the whole system, it has been paid more and more attention by modern people and has great value of protection and development. Xuzhou city, as martial arts village, has a solid foundation for the national traditional health-keeping sports. However, the current situation to carry out traditional health-keeping sports is not optimistic. It possess important realistic significance to analyze the reasons and find the solutions in order to fully inherit, dig and develop the excellent elements in the traditional health-keeping sports and let it to be used by masses widely.In this paper, the author made an analysis and research based on investigating community counselors and practitioners of traditional health-keeping sports in Xuzhou city, combining interviewing with experts, literatures and logical analysis. The factors to restrict the development of traditional healthy-keeping sports in Xuzhou city are summarized as follows:Incomplete management system for traditional health-keeping sports in Xuzhou city; Insufficient administrators and they are lagged to organize and instruct as well; Less propagation, instruction and promotion with enough depth; Lack of playing fields for residents and insufficient sports equipments in communities; Insufficient number of instructors and they are at their old age with lower academic degree and poor theoretical knowledge; More female practitioners than the males showing theâ…¤type age distribution with peaks in the two sides and valley in the middle; Lack of foreign exchange and competition, etc. These factors above have blocked seriously the development of traditional health-keeping sports in Xuzhou city.Based on the survey and analysis on the current status to carry out traditional health-keep sports in Xuzhou city, the following measures combining with the actual situation in Xuzhou city are presented:Improve the awareness of leaders and perfect the sports organization; Strengthen its promotion and improve the publicity; Assign dedicated staff for training, competition of traditional health-keeping methods with good basis, use the experience of a selected spot to promote the work in the entire area and spread it actively, enhance the propagation of traditional health-keeping sports; Administrative departments should strengthen management and pay the same attention by administrative departments as to competition sports and school sport to carry out traditional health-keeping sports, which should be implemented thoroughly on every practicing site and every practitioner; Rationalize the relation between government organizations and social communities to guarantee smooth transmission of information, improve the enthusiasm of social communities to take part in national traditional health-keeping sport. Enhance the training of community instructors for traditional health-keeping sports and cultivate specialized personnel; Strengthen the collaboration with colleges and universities in Xuzhou city and make full use of their resources to improve the deficiency of national health-keeping sports in talents, facilities and venues etc; Launch the training and competition of national traditional health-keeping sports actively and expand the participation of people. Train the backbones, improve the quality of practitioners and optimize the structure of participants.