Shaanxi Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Fitness Exercise

Shanxi Province intangible cultural heritage fitness sport is pattern rope skipping.

Fancy Rope Skipping, a traditional sport in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, one of the fourth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list in Shaanxi Province. Pattern rope skipping is a sport in which participants jump over one or more ropes in various ways.

Figure rope skipping combines dance, skill, martial arts, street dance, music and other sports and art forms on the basis of traditional rope skipping, combining speed and power, difficulty and pattern, and gradually develops into a sport that combines fitness, recreation, competition and performance with various functions.

Figure rope skipping was included in the "Third Shaanxi Provincial People's Games" competition program in 2002.

In 2002, synchronized rope skipping was included in the "Shaanxi Third People's Games".

In 2009, pattern rope skipping was approved by the Bureau of Culture and Sports of Beilin District, Xi'an to be included in the first batch of representative list of intangible cultural heritage at district level of Beilin District.On December 26, 2014, pattern rope skipping, declared by the Cultural Center of Beilin District, Xi'an, was approved by the Xi'an Municipal People's Government to be included in the list of the fourth batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage of Xi'an.

Content Classification of Pattern Rope Skipping:

Pattern Rope Skipping contains 12 categories, more than 60 sets of rope routes, and more than 300 kinds of skipping methods, which are suitable for collective performances in squares. Generally common practitioners for the "primary eight sets of rope": that is, four basic skills, rope skipping eight exercises, rope skipping dance, marching rope skipping and rope formation, fitness rope skipping exercise, jumping rope, jumping rope, rope skipping and rope dance exercises. "Beginner eight sets of rope" is often accompanied by "jump rope song" music.

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