ABSTRACT
During its chronicle development, traditional ethnic sports have formed a distinctive cultural system on its own. There are various sports events featured in local cultures, for example, embroidered ball throwing, firework gabbing, archery race, pearl ball, and spinning top beating, adding some 150 events under exploitation and sorted. The events are rich in contents, varied in forms. However, in a time when western sports dominate, our traditional ethnic sports are confronted
with unprecedented challenges: either cater to western culture and become competitive, or struggle on the edge of extinction due to insucient participants. It is obliged that a nation should protect and inherit the unique national characteristics attached to its own traditional cultures; therefore, researching on establishing traditional ethnic sports courses in colleges and universities is of great importance to the optimization and reform in higher educational institutions courses and inheritance and transmission of traditional ethnic sports cultures.
