Development Situation Diagnosis And Countermeasures Of The Rural Chinese Square Dance, Guide Town?Jinan City

Square dance played an important role in citizens' cultural and sporting lives, and is now growing rapidly in the countryside. It is very popular because it strengths the consciousness of daily exercise and also facilitate the culture development. But the lacking of academic research on the development situation of square dance in the countryside,especially the shortage of real examples, will be adverse to find out problems and come up with solutions on the development of square dance in the countryside.This article summarized the problems and also came up with solutions on the square dance in the countryside by survey on the development situation of villages in Guide town,Jinan city. We surveyed 106 administrative villages, and selected 200 people as study object by random sampling. And the results showed(1) the 70.5% of square dancers were female,(2) 40% were farmers or Self-employed,(3) the dancing space 35.5% were in squares, 48% in parks, and 16.5% in car-lacking grounds.(4) 59.5% of the dancing time were in the night after dinner,(5) 27% of square dancers participated 2-3 times, and 26.5%more than 3 times,(6) each time 42% of square dancers would attend 30-60 min;(8)50.5% farmers favored this activities, and 19% liked it very much.Depended on the research above, we proposed several suggestions:(1) The government increase financial support, perfect entertainment facilities(2) more dancing spaces should be discovered,(3) more indoor spaces should be created,(4) more competition games should be organized;(5) providing professional guide;(6) building the square dancers' organization.