Developmental Trend and Function of Sports in Chinese Traditional Festival

Traditional festivals play a great role in Chinese culture.Sports are the main content of the festival activities.Sports of our national traditional festival not only includs sports of Chinese commen traditional festival,but also charatical sports of minstity ethnical traditional festival.Our traditional sports can inherit the culture of our national and folk sports,and can develop good tradition and improve cognition of our national culture,as a result enhance cohesion of our nation.They can lead to discovery of folk tourism resources,development of regional economy,enrichment of community cultural life,and establishment of the new countryside so on.With the social development,their developmental trends are to combine with tourism industry,sport competition,and conservation of cultural relics.