The Study on Function of Folk Sports

Because folk sports has long been recognized as a popular culture, so it is lack of the necessary deeply research. This research attempts to take the function of folk sports as a point, takes deep exploration on function and value of which plays in social life. The research begins from enlightenment function, education function, function of maintaining social stability, entertainment function, function of promoting body health and function of promoting national belonging seven aspects to study folk sports, which focuses on linguistic expression skills training, logical thinking training and basic life knowledge training of the educational function, and adjusting function and competitive function of entertainment function. This research illustrates social values in current Chinese society of folk sports in details, tries to make people aware of folk sports playing a greater role in society transformation, so as to serve society and people better.