Research On Effects Of Rural Residents’Lifestyle On Their Health In Xiangxi Minority Area Since The Reform And Opening Up

The change of Xiangxi Minorities’ lifestyle is the most typical and representative research text. Taking Xiangxi minority rural residents as the research object, the dissertation mainly adopts methods like literature review, questionnaire, on-the-spot investigation, expert interview, case analysis, physical testing and statistics. An objective analysis on effects of rural residents’lifestyle over their Health in Xiangxi Minority is made to seek a conjunction between the unique cultural connotation carried in their lifestyle and their health. The research aims to provide inspiration and reference for the improvement of the minority people’s health, as well as theoretical and practical exploration on socialism construction of new rural area. The findings show that:(1)the sound ecological environment in Xiangxi minority area is conducive to the health of the human body; the Xiangxi minorities have religious belief, which can help satisfy their psychological needs. The limb movement involved in religious activities can serve as bodybuilding.(2) Smoking, heavy drinking and other bad habits of these residents become key factors influencing their health. After the reform and opening up, the ratio of smoking and drinking remains high due to their strong cultural inertia.(3) The residents haven’t broken away from the traditional farming mode. With low economic income, their economic consumption focuses on production. After the reform and opening up, they are paying more attention to food consumption in addition to production consumption while ignoring the health consumption.(4) Their spiritual pursuit is higher than material chase. After the reform and opening up, an upsurge of working immigrant occurs in Xiangxi minority rural area, resulting in spiritual loneliness of elderly residents and low sense of subjective happiness.(5) Few of them frequently participate in physical exercise. Sports activities, mainly running, walking and national traditional sports, are usually taken in their own courtyard, cropland, forest and open space.(6) After the reform and opening up, the living conditions of rural dwellers has improved and then-leisure time increased, which provides favorable prerequisites for the national fitness campaign. However, the government administrative ability and occupation consciousness of village officials remain low. What’s worse, financial input in rural sports facilities is insufficient and rural social elite’s sense of responsibility gets lost. All these factors form a "bottleneck" restricting national fitness campaign in rural areas.(7) The physical development level of the rural residents in aspects like height, weight and chest circumference is low. After the reform and opening up, their body shape tends to be in obesity, which is positively related to their age, education degree, housework and other factors. This is also the result of inheritance, natural and social environment factors.