The first element of national fitness dance is fitness.
In order to further promote the fitness of the whole nation and carry forward the culture of ethnic minorities, ethnic fitness gymnastics has been added to the competition programs of the 10th National Minority Traditional Sports Games, and this program has become a new highlight of the National Minority Sports Games.
The national fitness gymnastics is a set of rules created by the State People's Committee for the 10th National Minority Traditional Sports Games. This set of exercises takes the typical dance elements of many ethnic groups as the action material, takes fitness as the first element, combines the softness of ethnic dance with the strength of fitness gymnastics naturally, smoothly and reasonably, highlights the health, strength and beauty of the action, and perfectly combines the traditional ethnic culture with modern fitness.
The whole set of ethnic fitness exercises is 3 minutes and 30 seconds long (± 10 seconds), **** there are 56 eight beats, meaning 56 nationalities. Although only a few minutes, the ethnic fitness exercise combines the dance elements of more than 20 ethnic groups such as Uyghurs, Mongols, Dai, Tujia, Tibetans, etc., which is a perfect fusion of the toughness of fitness exercise and ethnic dance.
The reason for launching the national fitness gymnastics, Wu Cuiying, director of the Culture and Publicity Department of the State People's Committee, once said in an interview, "National fitness has risen to a national strategy. To the national promotion of national fitness gymnastics (competition version), is also inspired by the square dance, mainly with the help of national fitness gymnastics, and strive to integrate scientific and entertainment, the use of energetic form, the traditional national culture to pass out."