少数民族传统体育文化探源

The Root of Minorities’ Traditional Physical Culture in China

少数民族体育是少数民族同胞从长期的生产斗争实践中创造出来的。它反映了民族的历史、宗教信仰、风俗习惯、生产劳动、审美情趣等。在我国少数民族历史中,由于许多民族语言文字等文化形式发展不平衡,体育就成为用肢体语言反映历史文化的重要方法,是研究我国少数民族历史和文明的"活化石"。对少数民族传统体育文化的研究,不仅是对这些宝贵财富的挖掘与保护,也是促进民族地区物质文明和精神文明建设的重要手段。

Tracing the long tradition of the national physical culture makes it easy to fully understand and grasp its cultural value. This paper makes it clear that the formation of the minority P.E. in China is due to religious belief, warfare, hunting, folk customs, marriage and agricultural production .The conclusion is that the development of minority P.E. must accord with the characteristics of the nationality, science and our age.