Symbolic Anthropology Interpretation of the Ethnic Traditional Sports Apparatus in China

Using theory and perspective of symbolic anthropology,the paper researched the concrete and specific culture phenomenon of the ethnic traditional sports apparatus.The result showed that the ethnic traditional sports apparatus had limb function extension and symbolic meaning derivation,reproduction worship and life threshold symbol,totem worship and auspicious life symbol,ancestor worship and community recognition function symbol,divinity worship and secular power sanctification symbol and so on.Symbolic culture is the inheritance tie of the Chinese ethnic traditional sports spirit,and is the specific show of enhancing the group cohesiveness of ethnic traditional sports,strengthening correctional function of ethnic traditional sports,promoting diversification of ethnic traditional sports form,expressing value convergence to a better life.