A Study On The Inheritance Of Stilts Beasts In Jishan County From The Perspective Of Sports Anthropology

Folk sports is a characteristic culture of a place,We can deeply understand the local cultural features and potential social relations by researching folk sports,thereby promoting the revival and inheritance of traditional culture.This article takes Sports Anthropology as the research perspective and has an in-depth analyses for Stilts Beasts that is National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project,the writer also build the detailed sequence of the activity in terms of the origin of anthropic activity and physical sports culture,relationship with the natural environment,inheritance and development,diversifications of inheritors and inherited content and inherited system.This research mainly adopts field survey method,focus interview method,group interview method,documentation method,etc.The writer described the existent environment of Stilts Beasts and analyzed data had collected by Sports Anthropology theories and qualitative research methods,then revealed the interrelationship between the reconstruction of inheritance and the cultural space of the heritage area.Discovered inherited predicaments of Stilts Beasts:decline of traditional culture,the training of inheritors is difficult,Restrictions on the size of Stilts Beasts,the disputes between inherited villages,and so on.The author proposed corresponding countermeasures:conduct festival activities under the guiding of the government,merge inheritance with village system and villager relationship,improve the knowledge of inheritors,improve the procreative process of Stilts Beasts,build a cultural industry chain combining ancient village tourism with sports industry,build a more rational association management system to resolve the inside disputes between villages.And gotten the conclusions:(1)The distinctive rituals and festal culture of Stilts Beasts have been combined to form the cultural connotation of the New Year's blessings.(2)Diversifications in the village system and village layout have changed the neighbours' relations among villagers,and inheritance with neighbours' relations as its core has changed.In the new system of village,the inherited modality of the associational system has been formed.(3)Stilts Beasts needs young and promising inheritors to plan and build the inherited path.