Folk sports are the links between history and modern times, and they play an important role in meeting people's growing cultural needs. By using the methods of literature, the field investigation and interview, this paper combs the historical development of "shrimp arch" in Yiyang folk sports, it expounds the cultural characteristics of "shrimp arch" : sacrificial, regional, group, affinity, inheritance and entertainment, and it probes into its deep value in five aspects: physical fitness, leisure and entertainment, tourism performance, ...