(Department of Sports and Art,Zhejiang Ocean University,Zhoushan 316004,China) Abstract: From the perspective of culture, the author probed into the formation, transition and development of is-land village folk sports. The formation of island village folk sports is closely related to the oceanic geographical en-vironment, unique production manner, foreign invasion resistance, island folk customs, and holiday celebration. The development of island village folk sports culture is provided with such characteristics as ocean related, heritable, re-gional, labor related, venturous and exciting, entertaining, competitive, and communicative. The author put forward such measures as exert island village folk sports potential by fully utilizing oceanic culture. Key words: traditional national sports;oceanic folk sports;sports culture;Zhejiang |