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The Value and Significance of Folk Sports Games

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. 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, the formation of national traditional sports is the product of a specific historical period, which is not only the result of human practice, 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.