The Study On The Actions Of Health Keeping And Body Building In The Activities Of Minority Folk-custom In Gansu Province

Improving people's health mainly relies on forming healthy life habits.U.S.A once put forward the slogans "Lengthen the span of healthy life and reduce the harmful factors" in its major aim "the year 2000's health plan".It also points out that the unhealthy way of life is as follows:excessive drinking,smoking,irregular life,unbalanced diet, lack of exercises and so on".In order to keep healthy,people must participate in physical exercises,balance the diet,give up smoking and drinking,use medicines carefully,maintain the psychological health and lower the factors influencing the people's health to the minimum.Gansu Province issituatedin the west undeveloped area and is without the developing Conditions owned by developed areas.The investment for the physical health is so limited.However,it has the rich cultural resources of folk traditional sports.Thus,based on the condition of respecting the national religious belief,we must fully explore the religious factors of how to improve the qualities of national population and the body- building ingredients inherited from the folk customs.At the same time we should spread its Spirit in order to contribute a little to the culture and economy of the northwest areas.Meanwhile,Gansu is a province of many nationalities.Our research on the health-keeping and body-building behavior of Gansu minorities in the folk activities will be of some help to the same research in the other minority areas of the whole country.The research results will play an active part in the development of these areas.It will have the theoretical significance and extensive practice significance in improving the population quality in minority areas and it also can improve the health levels of minority as a whole.Using the approaches of document materials,field practical proof, expert consultations,questionnaire and data statistics,this essay has made a study of the health-keeping and body-building behavior of Gansu minorities in the folk activities.The results and analysis:1.Their health behavior mainly exists in the race games,religion taboo and diet life,the content of which is quite rich.2.The feature analysis of body-building behavior of Gansu minorities.3.The culture research of health-keeping and body-building behavior of Gansu minorities.4.Its development trend in the global background:1) The national traditional sports pattern is to promote the health of the whole nation.2) The national cultural life pattern is to enrich cultural construction 3) The national cultural contest pattern is to strengthen national culture.4) The national cultural education pattern is to explore school-based teaching materials;5.The strategy research of their behavior development:1) its exploring value,2) its development thought,3) its exploring pattern.We have drawn the following conclusions based on the above research and analysis:1) The exploration and arrangement of the health-keeping and body-building culture is good to the spread and inherit of our national culture.2) It is possible to put the suitable behavior available to the schools into the school-based teaching materials in the national areas.3) It is beneficial to the development of the whole nation exercises in the nationalareas soas to improve the health levels of minorities.