Study On Folk Custom Physical Activities During Traditional Festival Participated By Local Inhabitants At Small Towns

Chinese traditional festivals, such as Spring festival, Qinming festival, Duanwu festival and Mid-autumn festival, are legal festival since 2008. Folk custum physical activites are one important part of these festivals, as has been attractive and appealing, also valued by local people, especially at small town .Folk Custom Physical Activities(FCPA) during Traditional festival, as usually, reflect local inhabitants cultural and psychological situation. To some degree, FCPA has been always reflect some nation cutural attributions, such as "value human relationship, respect ancestors, take virture seriously and worship Confucian Orthodoxy", as well as philosophical notion of the unity of Heaven and Humanity .Development level of physical education at small towns is the key step to improve physical education in rural area. This study is to explore the present situation of FCPA during traditional festival in order to appeal the people's attention.Objective:Under the background of national policy-small town community as center to improve physical education in rural area, FCPA during traditional festival has become important part of physical education in rual area, which is significant to impove intercourse of local people, enhance cohesive force, and enrich cultural connontation.At present, it is still hard to find some literatures on FCPA, and also have no clear definition of physical activities during festival. This study investigate FCPA during traditional festival at Yangkou town, a small town at guangfeng county, base on field research. This study explore the behaviors of the people who participate in FCPA, as well as the effect of FCPA on people's life.Main results:1. The population of women is more than that of men among participants; The older people are , the more activly to parcipate in FCPA except for more 70 years old; The number of participants does not increase with the development of the economics, as is different trend compared with other sports population.2. The contents of FCPA is different from that of the past, at presen.3. The number of participants is much more than that of other towns, with the development of economics, most people realize the function of physical education, and with high motivation.4. Main obstacles of FCPA in rural area is lack of govermental surport, advertisement, and fund, also short of couches, field and related orgnization.Main Suggestions:1. All level of government should attach importance to FCPA to change spontaneous, random activites into planed, orgnised and institutionalized activities.2. Train and cultivate human resource in FCPA, especially train young and middle aged people, and to set HR data, enhance research on FCPA.3. To carry on traditionary FCPA as well as create new and convenient content and form while paying attention to value conception.