The concept of national traditional sports

As a national traditional sports culture, on the basis of its connotation and traditional cultural characteristics, its concept can be expressed as follows: national traditional sports is a comprehensive cultural form created by all ethnic groups for competitive entertainment and education in order to acquire physical fitness skills, a synthesis of dynamic processes based on physical exercise of all ethnic groups, and a traditional cultural lifestyle formed by the progress of national civilization, which has its own characteristics.

To understand the concept of national traditional sports, we should grasp the following four principles:

National traditional sports is a system and a whole. Any concept that separates or isolates the traditional national sports system is not a scientific and complete concept.

Traditional national sports are dynamic, not static. From a static point of view, it is easy to make the connotation and extension of the concept of national traditional sports too wide or too narrow. Only by understanding it from a dynamic perspective can the concept of national traditional sports be more specific, accurate and realistic.

National traditional sports is the humanization of national sports, that is, the traditional sports culture in national culture. The center of the concept of national traditional sports is "people", that is, participants as the main body of traditional sports.

National traditional sports is an important part of traditional culture of all ethnic groups. It is not only the understanding of the human body by all ethnic groups and fitness and entertainment activities with physical exercise as the main content, but also a special educational method adopted by people to seek to strengthen physical skills training.