The Historical Development of Traditional Ethnic Minority Sports Games

The development of traditional sports of ethnic minorities in China has a long history. Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the rulers in all historical stages ignored the development of minority sports culture and allowed it to develop. Zhu De, former Vice President of the State, pointed out at a sports work conference in 1949 that "many sports forms originally created by the masses should be widely used"; The importance of developing traditional folk sports is emphasized.

1953165438+10, the national sports performance and competition conference was held in Tianjin. 198 1 After the national symposium on traditional ethnic sports was held in September, the State Council approved that the national traditional ethnic sports games should be hosted by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the former State Sports Commission, and be held every four years. At the same time, the national national sports performance and competition conference held in Tianjin from 65438 to 0953 was designated as the first national traditional sports meeting of ethnic minorities.

From 65438 to 0986, the emblem, flag and emblem were used for the first time in the Third National Games, which marked the gradual normalization of the National Games. The National Games officially confirmed that the National Games can be divided into two categories: competition and performance, with 7 competition events and 5 performance events11. The Fourth National Games not only added standardized and scientific events such as dragon boat, but also formulated more scientific and systematic general rules, rules and regulations of competition events and evaluation methods of performance events, which made the National Games a big step towards the standardized track.

Up to now, the China Traditional Minority Sports Games have been held for 9 times (the 10th National Traditional Minority Sports Games will be held in Erdos, Inner Mongolia on August 20 15), covering all ethnic autonomous regions such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as economically developed areas such as Beijing, Tianjin and Guangzhou. There are 22 performances in five games from 1953 to 13 and 140 performances from 1999 to 17 and 140 performances from 20 15. The ethnic groups participating in the ethnic minority games cover 55 ethnic minorities in China.

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The National Games is moving in the direction of inheriting and innovating, carrying forward the past and opening up the future, and a large number of new events have been discovered. gratifying progress has been made in exploring the combination of popularization and improvement, the combination of mass and specialization, the combination of traditional sports and modern sports, and the combination of nationality and the world, which has made the traditional sports of ethnic minorities embark on the road of popularization, improvement, standardization and science.