| Yunnan is located in the southwest of the country, is the national minority frontier provinces, including most of the largest number yi, and Yanhe Dance of Yi People is a unique dance, has a broad mass base in Yunnan province. In 2006, Yanhe Dance was listed in the first national immaterial cultural heritage list, and how to fully develop and use traditional minority national sports resources, inherit and carry forward the traditional minority national sports culture, the most effective way is to bring Yanhe Dance into middle school sports teaching, to make this dance get inherit and carry forward. At the same time, the school physical education curriculum reform in the middle school is a good platform for Yi Yanhe dance. In Yunnan province Yi Yanhe dance is widespread, and suitable for the masses. It plays a crucial role in exercise activities for the general public.This paper mainly studies the feasibility of "Yanhe Dance" of Yi Peoplein Yuxi middle school, which promote and popularize the development of Yanhe dance in Yuxi middle school. This article used the literature material methodology, expert interview, questionnaires, field research and mathematical statistic to analyze the present condition and influencing factors of Yanhe Dance in Yuxi middle school. Through the analysis and discussion, this provides the theoretical and practical basis promotion for Yanhe Dance in Yuxi middle school.The main results obtained are as follows:1. Through investigation and research, results show that some experts, school leaders and PE teachers of Yuxi have a high regard to Yanhe Dance of Yi People and have got support and affirmation to teach Yanhe Dance in middle school, which enrich the content of PE course.2. Yanhe Dance not only helps build up the body and offer enjoyment, but also plays a positive role in the way of improving the aesthetic standards of the participants. The actions are very easy to learn and good for youth development in body coordination and rhyme of music, also are easy among the students to form the physical exercise thinking and consciousness. This dance can arouse students' enthusiasm and improve students' physique, enabling them to experience the joy and success, and to the fewer demanding on the site, low cost and high safety, which is suitable to develop in middle school.3. Yanhe Dance has the broad geographical adaptability and accords with the reality of middle school sports health teaching content, enriching the Sunshine Sports Movements and making full use of the existing site resources. Therefore, carrying on Yanhe Dance in Yuxi middle school actively is very necessary.4. Students' motives and positive attitude to Yanhe dance have laid a good foundation to develop Yanhe Dance in middle school.5. PE teachers' limited knowledge on Yi's Yanhe dance and lack of relevant material are the main factors to develop Yi Yanhe dance, but through many ways to strengthen PE Teachers' cultivation and collect the data of Yi's Yanhe dance, increasing the development of teaching material of Yanhe Dance and carrying out this dance in Yuxi middle is feasible. |