A Sports Study Of ZhanQi Village, A Typical Village In Huizhou District, Anhui Province

Huizhou district,an area with typical traditional local culture, enjoys the reputation of being "Southeast Zou LU" and "Culture Capital",covers villages with colorful traditional folk sports events, which are parts of villager' s social life.Under such circumstance that modern sports are not well developed in villages,a development of traditional fold sports events in villages may well become a major driving force promoting the development of physical education in rural areas in Huizhou district.Based on a case study of ZhanQi village,the study hereof explores the background,historical transformation of sports in ZhanQi village in Huizhou district,the conflicts and combination between the modern village sports and the traditional physical education,the problems that village sports faces during its development and its countermeasures.An analysis in a theoretical and micro perspective of sports in ZhanQi is made to reach following conclusions:1 The traditional folk sports in the village,which is forged with specific historical features in social transformational period,is largely affected by society and politics.Many traditional folk sports are constrained and abandoned.Only the fishing lantern activities are maintained,the ceremony of which were once for honoring ancestors,making sacrifice and prays and are now changed into forms of festival entertainments in people' s life and losing popularity by each passing day.The modern sports is under the influence of politics,economy,culture and people' s education and infiltrates into villagers' life.2,Present sports situation in ZhanQi village:First,villagers' activities are mainly on roads and in their own yards.Second,they exercise mainly in the mornings(elders)or the evenings(children) mostly in winter and summer seasons.Third,the sports activities are usually easy and simple ones that are interesting and entertaining and don' t need any facilities or appliance.Fourth,those activities are spontaneous ones in loose forms for the purpose of entertainment.Fifth,the subjects in the activities are limited by the contents of such activities,which means people of varied ages take part in different activities.3.ZhanQi village possesses both modern and traditional sports, two different forms of sports under the impact of policies,school PE education and traditional conceptions of improving fitness through physical exercise,It' s hoped that a combination of the two contents through school education and local tourism can help promote the development of sports in villages.4.We should start from raising awareness of the village leaders, improving organizing mechanism,arranging specific management personnels,attaching importance to and putting into further play the role of the traditional sports.With the support of government,society and families,etc.we should actively promote physical education and economic prosperity in ZhanQi village through multiple channels at a time when the tourism at the ancient village is now embracing a fast development.