Dragon and lion dance carries the profound Chinese traditional culture, which is the most vivid and vivid historical resources and cultural heritage that the Chinese people have contributed to the human society. Based on the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the dragon and lion dance physical education program, the article innovatively proposes a “four-dimensional integration” model for the dragon and lion dance physical education program. In order to verify the effectiveness of the model, 80 students from a provincial sports institute were selected to design a comparative teaching experiment, and the data were analyzed in terms of physical health, mental health and cooperative awareness. It was found that the “four-dimensional integration” model of dragon and lion dance physical education curriculum could significantly improve students’ physical and mental health (P<0.05), and students’ cooperation awareness and skills scores increased from 68.54 before the experiment to 88.85 after the experiment, and students’ motivation was clearer. The effective integration of dragon and lion dance and school physical education curriculum needs to strengthen the publicity and popularization efforts, combined with curriculum content innovation and talent training efforts, to provide a platform to support the inheritance and development of the traditional culture of dragon and lion dance.
