(School of Physical Education,Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences,Chongqing 402160,China) Abstract: In order to further clarify the issue about the origin and development of folk sports, based on the survival cultural physiognomies of folk sports, the authors dissected the symbol changing of its survival cultural physiognomies by using methods such as literature data, example analysis and history comparison etc, and put forward the following opinions: folk sports showed such a survival cultural physiognomy as surviving, working, communicating and courting, such a survival cultural physiognomy as national and race strengthening, sympathetic witchcraft, praying to Gods and religious belief, and such a survival cultural physiognomy as making things competitive, commercialization, making things entertaining, and coexistence of custom expansion and simplification, respectively in the originating, developing and modern periods; however, the classification of the survival cultural physiognomies shown by folk sports in various periods is not absolute, the symbol expression forms of various survival cultural physiognomies may be in a concurrent condition in the same period or different periods. Key words: sports culture;folk sports;survival culture;concurrent phase;symbol changing |