Physical Activity in Folk Culture: An Anthropological Investigation of the "Dujie" Ceremony of the Yao Nationality in China

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           Physical activity plays an important role in the inheritance of folk culture. This paper uses the field investigation method and the literature research method to investigate the ritual of the Yao people in China. It deeply describes the physical activity in the ritual of abstinence, and analyzes the implication of physical activity from the perspective of sociological theory. In the local social environment, the ritual of discovery has the functions of cultural change, the construction of community consciousness, national cultural symbol and social governance.