Research on the Function of Dragon and Lion Dance under the Background of the National Fitness

Abstract

Chinese dragon and lion dance has experienced thousands of years of history from traditional folk dragon and lion dance activity to the modern athletics project, is a ``living fossil{''} of the Chinese traditional sports culture. It is a Han national traditional style entertainment with spontaneous, recreational and optional features, gradually has developed into a kind of sports of a fitness function, combined with martial arts, dance, music. It is one of the most excellent national traditional sports. Integrating physical healthy heart, dragon and lion dance is not only a physical fitness, but a moral education and cultivates one's morality. The forms of dragon and lion dance are flexible and not affected by the venues, equipment, especially suitable for the development in the squares of rural areas.