Abstract: Depending on the methods of literature data, questionnaire survey , mathematical statistics, the paper investigates and analyzes the sports behavior of the Miao farmers in West Hunan. It objectively reveals the characteristics and influencing factors of these people’s sports behaviors and suggests the corresponding countermeasures for the problems so as to provide theoretical basis for promoting the sustainable development of sports in minority nationality areas.

Key words: west Hunan, farmers, sports behavior, characteristics