| （1.School of Physical Education，Guangxi Normal University，Guilin 541004，China；2.Department of Physical Education，Guilin University of Technology，Guilin 541004，China；3.Guilin Institute of Tourism，Guilin 541006，China） Abstract: The authors conducted a field investigation at 6 firecracker festival holding places in Sanjiang county in northern Guangxi, where people of Dong nationality live, and revealed that ritual like minority national sport has important value in modern social life. From the perspective of rural culture, building an activity platform for other folk sport to reserve a space for inheritance and development, so ritual like minority national sport has become a good carrier for the inheritance of rural social cultures; from the perspective of humanistic construction, by building the recognition of local national groups and the national recognition of people, mobilizing community participation, forming a healthy competition relationship, and strengthening the understanding and communication between peo-ple of different nationalities, ritual like minority national sport has become an important activity that promotes na-tional stability and harmony; from the perspective of rural governing, ritual like minority national sport forms “competitive inhibition” on bad entertainment forms with its healthy cultural and sports activities, therefore, ritual like minority national sport will become an effective tool for rural governing.
Key words: minority national sports；ritual；firecracker-snatching；villages of Dong nationality |
