The paper,taking the hand-waving dance of Tujia as a study case,analyzes its direct or indirect educational effect on the Tujia people.

Tujia hand-waving dance is a traditional sport which is popular among Tujia nationality in western Hunan and Hubei,and southeast Chongqing.

By analyzing the stylistic features of its naturalness,sacrifice functions,and crusade,this paper attempts to explore the relationships between hand-waving dance and the traditional culture,living environment,and religious belief of Tujia nationality.

This article analyses and discusses today s scholar s three standpoints of the origin of Tujia people s Baishou Dance, and it goes on verifying a point of historic development and the origin of Tujia people s Baishou dance once more.

According to “The Programme of Body_building of the Whole People”,the relevant data and her experience,the author probes into the value of Tujia s Baishou dance in body_building of the whole people and gives some constructive suggestions in this article in order to promote its development.

The Baishou dance of Tujia nationality has a long sport culture history,with deep and rich cultural connotations,after the passage of time and evolved into modern form of a variety of sports.

It is necessary to protect the cultural ecology of waving dance and salvage and passing on it so that it can further develop.

This paper revises the history of the discovering and inheritance of waving dance in Laifeng county,and points out the predicament about waving dance inheritance: no enough attention from government,external cultural influence,lack of economy support and professional help.

A great deal of work has been done in the aspect of protecting non-material cultural heritages by Tujia nationality and great achievement has been made,but the protection of cultural ecology of Tujia nationality’s hand-swinging folk dance has been facing great challenge.

The hand-shaking dance of Tujia, which is not only a kind of folk art form that appreciated by Tujia people, but also has been one of the outstanding culture forms of Tujia.

This essay studies initially the cultural ecological context involving hand-swinging dance of Tujia ethnic people and analyzes deeply the dance itself by analytical methods of dance movements in an attempt to give a complete picture of pattern characteristics of hand-swinging dance from Tujia ethnic groups.

The non-material heritage "hand-swinging dance",a traditional national sports culture,has been created and accumulated during the long history,which is characterized by its strong national and geographical styles.