National traditional sports

National traditional sports is an important part of human sports culture, which is not only the embodiment of a cultural form with national characteristics, but also a cultural form with traditional colors. It is not only an integral part of human sports culture, but also an important part of national traditional history and culture. As a kind of sports culture, it should be an objective material activity that different nationalities purposefully and actively transform human society and human beings themselves; As a national traditional culture, as a cultural form, it should have its own historical process of formation, development and survival, its own outstanding and rich scientific connotation and cultural constraints that blend with other related cultural forms.

Connotation of National Traditional Sports

As an important part of national culture, national traditional sports is a kind of national traditional culture with independent cultural form, solitary history and rich cultural connotation. Its connotation is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

First of all, the formation of national traditional sports is the product of a specific historical period. It is not only the result of human's own practical activities, but also deeply influenced by traditional customs, traditional morality, traditional education and other related traditional cultural forms in its development and formation.

Secondly, it is precisely because of its own "nationality" and "tradition" that national traditional sports become a special form of sports activities. This is a physical training centered on competition and a psychological reproduction centered on expressing emotions. However, these two ways of value expression often exist in the same sports behavior, which has become an important basis for the existence of national traditional sports as a cultural form.

Thirdly, as a comprehensive form of national culture, national traditional sports has always been closely related to other cultural systems in the surrounding environment, and has become a cultural open system that freely exchanges materials and information with the outside world. This not only provides conditions for traditional national sports with different sports modes and characteristics to be displayed to the world, but also lays a foundation for different forms of traditional national sports to draw "nutrition" from different ethnic groups and modern sports.

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.