Recreational therapy (Recreationaltherapy) refers to a psychotherapeutic method to cultivate temperament and enhance physical and mental health through a variety of recreational activities (such as listening to music, learning to sing, watching movies, watching TV, watching theater performances, dancing, playing games, playing chess, and touring the garden, etc.). Recreation therapy has a long history. The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle and the ancient Chinese “Music Records” have discussed the therapeutic effects of music and other recreational activities. There are also many records of recreational therapy in ancient medical cases in China. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, there is a magistrate, all day long worried, depressed, food tasteless, sleepless, day by day thinning down, although many seek medical treatment, still no effect. Then I heard that there is a famous doctor, medical skill, they went to seek treatment. The old man asked about the condition and after the pulse, a serious said to him: you are “irregular menstruation”. The magistrate heard this and laughed and laughed, pointing his sleeve and leaving. Afterwards, people will tell this strange story, every time I say a time, will laugh a time. I did not expect a short time later, the disease was cured. At this time, the magistrate realized, door to thank the doctor. Bone-setter told him: “You are suffering from depression of the heart, to cure your heart disease, what better heart than laughing ‘medicine’ it?” This has also been reported abroad. For example, the famous British chemist Faraday, due to long-term intense research work, was haunted by the demon of headache and insomnia. He had to go to the doctor, the doctor gave him such a prescription: “A clown in town, better than a dozen doctors.” Faraday understood this, and from then on frequented the theater, watching comedies, burlesques, and circuses, and his health soon improved. Some medical and research institutions have set up recreational therapy organizations, recreational therapy for systematic research, such as the Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, set up a “music therapy research society”, with beautiful and beautiful classical music for the treatment of patients seeking treatment. The Oral Treatment Unit of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has used music instead of anesthetics to successfully operate on 200 dental patients. Studies have also been conducted to determine the therapeutic effects of different music by examining the emotional changes it produces. The reason why music can play a role in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases is that it not only reflects and uplifts the human spirit, but also its different rhythms, melodies, tones, timbres, etc., can have different effects on the human mind and body. Recreational therapy has 10 major benefits: ① enhance the respiratory function of the lungs; ② clean airways; ③ make the muscle relaxation; ④ help to dissipate excess energy; ⑤ helpful to express healthy emotions; ⑥ eliminate nervous tension; ⑦ help dispel sadness; ⑧ to reduce the “sense of social constraints”; ⑨ help to overcome the shyness of the mood; ⑩ help to optimistically to deal with reality. The first four items belong to physiological functions, and the last six items belong to psychological functions, which indicates that recreational therapy has more obvious therapeutic value. In the implementation of recreational therapy, we must pay attention to several issues: first of all, should be based on the principle of voluntary participation, if the patient is not interested in participating in recreational activities or even aversion, it will only be counterproductive, but also lost the meaning of recreational therapy itself; secondly, it must be different from one person to another, due to the patient has a different experience, different personality characteristics, different recreational hobbies and cultivation, the organization of recreational activities, must take into account these factors, choose a more suitable recreational activities, and then choose a more suitable recreational activities. When organizing recreational activities for them, these factors must be taken into consideration and more appropriate recreational methods must be chosen. Once again, the principle of nature must be followed. Recreation itself is a relaxing and natural activity, and its curative effect is mainly realized through subtle influence. Therefore, it should not be carried out in a forceful, dogmatic and pretentious way, but should make the treatment harmoniously and naturally integrated in the recreation. Work and recreation therapy is the abbreviation of work and recreation therapy, that is, the organization of patients to carry out appropriate productive labor and recreational sports activities to promote disease recovery, is a clinical means of adjunctive treatment, especially in chronic mental patients, personality disorders, mental retardation patients, work and recreation therapy is often an important therapeutic method. (1) Work therapy: Let the patient participate in some work and labor. According to the different conditions and diagnoses, combined with the patient’s specialties, different labor can be arranged. Common labor includes indoor cleaning and sanitation, such as making beds, mopping floors, sweeping floors, and taking care of other seriously ill people. There is also technical labor, such as weaving bamboo utensils, straw bales, knitting sweaters, sewing, embroidery, painting, writing, making toys, gluing envelopes, bookbinding and so on. There is also a kind of labor, such as intensive cultivation of the garden, or assisting gardeners in planting grass and flowers, raising livestock and poultry, and so on. For the purpose of curing the disease, it is necessary to make the patient adhere to these labors. (2) Recreational therapy: Let the patient participate in some recreational and sports activities. It can be arranged in a planned way, such as enjoying music, listening to records, dancing, playing chess, playing cards, playing ball games, playing tai chi, practicing qigong, etc. It can also organize collective games for the patients, participate in various competitions, read newspapers and magazines, or take a walk. The daily life in the ward is rich and colorful. Recreational therapy through the work of the patient has many benefits: ① the fruits of labor can make the patient produce a sense of value, a sense of responsibility; recreational sports activities can exercise the body, cultivate sentiment. ② recreational activities can make the patient’s mind focus, emotional relaxation, to avoid the patient immersed in the disease all day long, to lift the fear, sadness, anxiety, nervousness and other negative emotions. ③Participating in collective activities can enable patients to contact real life, improve interpersonal relationships, and promote the recovery of social adaptability. ④Performing normal physical and mental functions, preventing intellectual and physical disuse decline, preserving or learning part of the production skills, reducing the occurrence of complications and shortening the hospitalization time.