Reserch On The Amdo Tibetan Folk Sports

The Amdo Tibetan folk sports being rich and colorful, of long history, is our country folk culture’ organic component. Amdo Tibetan folk sports culture is extracted essence from our national culture history. It comes from the Amdo Tibetans’ most common production life, which is the soil of self-sufficient natural economy. Under the influence of the traditional culture of Tibetan Buddhism, and after several generations of efforts and accumulation, it has followed so far and spread in the community. Now it continues to enrich the content toward to the folk sports development in many aspects. The Amdo Tibetan folk sports have strong ethnic characteristics, multi-fusion and regional and heredity. The folk sports activities of Amdo Tibet are now being given the connotation of the era. People show some folk sports’ expression not just in the folk entertainment and the competitive game, but to enhance its social function characteristics, especially in the cultural communication function, the education function, the economic function, the fitness and entertainment function. Many unique folk sports activities had come into being in its long history development of The Amdo Tibetan. characteristic projects are: Horse Racing, Horse Race’s Shooting, Equestrian, Yaks Riding, Wrestling, Archery, Mountain Climbing, Beiga, and Yajia (the tug-of-war of elephant), DingNiu, Getun, Race, Throw Domino, Tibet Chess, Holding Stone and so on. The occurrence and formation of these distinctive Tibetan folk sports cannot be separated from the environment factors, labor factors, religion and sacrifice factors, military factors, and to a great extent are influenced by these factors.This paper attempts to focus on the occurrence and formation of Amdo Tibetan folk sports, the social function of the Tibetan folk sports and so on. A more systematic, comprehensive research and analysis had been necessary. And the development of Tibetan folk sports should discuss. From the development of characteristics tourism projects, the introduction of school sports education, the national fitness, put forward a series of measures of protection and inheritance. Make the Amdo Tibetan folk sports could be better known by more people, promote the Tibetan folk sports to more areas of Amdo Tibet, and for the development of the Tibetan folk sports do more reference.