Plastic stool, trestle ladder, wearing a raincoat, waving a mobile phone…… In the past two days, Taipan village is on fire again. This small mountain village, located in Taijiang county, Qiandongnan prefecture, Guizhou province, has been popular all over the Internet due to the holding of country Basketball competitions in recent years. Netizens vividly call the competition there “village BA”.
As we all know, NBA and CBA are a kind of sports events growing in modern metropolis. They need professional stadiums and top stars, however, the countryside is a completely different cultural ecology from the city. When the two are mixed together, there will be a strange freshness. Here, basketball and countryside seem to be different from their original appearance at once. After the stereotype is broken, they inspire each other and each has a brand-new charm.
On the afternoon of 27th, the finals of the first “beautiful countryside” basketball league in Guizhou province came to a successful conclusion in Taiwan village, which can also be called the finals of “village BA, finally, the host Qiandongnan State team won the championship by defeating Zunyi team 68-65. Frankly speaking, from the topic of hot search and manufacturing caused by it on the Internet, it is no less than a CBA and NBA Finals.
Why is “village BA” popular?
From the photos taken by the on-site unmanned aerial vehicle, the stands on both sides of the stadium are as tall as cliffs, the top is crowded with people, and the atmosphere on the scene is no less than NBA. Not far from the stadium, you can also see the winding and rugged hilly landscape, with ponds, farmland and hills, and Taban village spreads gracefully in the valley along the terrain.
From the perspective of a social landscape, “village BA” undoubtedly has great communication value. The impact of events around the experience of watching games will certainly attract commercial development. People outside this village are willing to watch and discuss such a new, daily and visual impact “village BA” through various platforms “. However, we should pay more attention to and think about “village BA” as a kind of life and how to protect, nourish and spread this kind of life.
In fact, folk sports activities similar to “village BA” existed in ancient times. When Yuanzhang, a great poet of Tang Dynasty, once exiled Wuchang, he wrote a long poem on the road, which recorded a strange sight. Compared with the prosperity of Luoyang in Chang’an at that time, Wuchang was a remote township. From the first-tier cities, Yuanzhang was surprised to find that people here especially liked dragon boat rowing. Every April and May, the strong men in the countryside will organize training at the edge of the village head and River for more than ten days in a row.
According to the records of Yuanzhang, the sense of ritual of dragon boat race is very strong, and it is as grand as ancestor worship. When people train, they work hard like ploughing fields. At the time of the competition, dragon boats will gather in the Yangtze River from all directions. There are countless viewers and there is a trend of “tens of thousands of people empty fields. It can be seen that there were spontaneous country sports clubs in the Yangtze River basin during the Tang Dynasty. From the perspective of landscape, this is very similar to Guizhou’s “village BA”.
We can say that “village BA” has inspired a new vitality of modern countryside, and it can also be said that it is awakening a remote rural tradition. Through “village BA”, we have seen another possibility of sports and another idea of rural construction.
As a social identity, farmers have always been given too many stereotypes. We often marvel at the appearance of such figures as peasant poets, peasant painters and peasant singers, while peasant activities like “village BA” are extremely rare. But don’t forget, a large part of the origin of sports comes from agricultural labor, and people’s earliest sports place is in the field.
Farmers have their stable and restrained side, as well as their flying and free side, but this side is covered.
Sports activities in the countryside are usually national and festive, so as to drive the countryside into a happy and happy whole. Compared with modern cities, the countryside should be a place of abundance, growth and emotion. “Village BA” has found or found this feeling for us. It is not only a kind of landscape, but also a kind of life.
Why is it rising in Guizhou
Guizhou is a place where ethnic minorities live together. Especially Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, according to the data of the seventh census, the resident population of the state was 3758622, and 33 ethnic groups lived in the territory. Among them, the Miao population accounts for more than 40%, and the Dong nationality accounts for about 30%. Specifically, in Taijiang county, the Miao population accounts for more than 98%, which is called “The first Miao county in the world.
No matter from the perspective of rugged topography or ethnic integration, this place is full of vitality, which is the original ecological passion of people, people and land. Although the mountains block the vast world away, in the quiet village, they need to organize their own world and a life echoing their hearts. Basketball just provides such an exit.
The “village BA” event was developed from the “June 6” basketball game in Taiwan village. It has been held in southeast Guizhou for decades. Eating New Festival is a traditional national festival Hmong village. Local villagers will hold various activities to wish a good harvest of food. Basketball match is the most lively one, and many tourists will come here, which is very lively. In this final, one of the prizes of the champion was the national intangible cultural heritage-Miao silver hood.
In regular basketball matches, there are often some performance programs, such as cheerleading dance, before and during the break, so what is “village BA?
Jumping Miao Di “.
Just listening to this name will make people excited: what kind of scene will the traditional, modern, national and fashionable blend of them be?
It is reported that the music and action creativity of “Miao Di” are integrated by many non-heritage cultures in Taijiang county, including the anti-platoon wood encouragement known as Oriental disco, Miao Lusheng, non-heritage ancient songs, etc, it also integrates the modern cutting-edge electroacoustic combination of fashion and dynamic, with lively rhythm and explosive scenes. Moreover, ordinary people are not only easy to “top”, but also easy to “get started” and can participate at any time.
These cultural elements full of national and regional characteristics undoubtedly add a unique “out-of-competition” style to “village BA.
“The more national, the more world.” Sure enough, we saw it.
Why is it born in the contemporary era?
According to the records of Guizhou provincial sports records, as early as 1906, a primary school in Dushan county, which is located in southwest Guizhou, “built basketball courts and carried out basketball activities”; In the 1970 s, the “Hmong village women’s basketball” active in Qiandongnan prefecture has been famous both inside and outside the province. However, the information dissemination in that era was not as developed as it is now.
In 2020, Taijiang county was lifted out of poverty, and the economic society and infrastructure had undergone qualitative changes. Today, it takes 10 minutes to get on the high-speed railway and more than 20 minutes to get on the high-speed railway. It also covers the 5G network. The development of economy and society and the convenience of technological progress have further narrowed the distance between the local Hmong village and the outside world, and also enabled “village BA” to get out of the village and be seen more.
Especially in the past two years, with the rise of social media and short videos, “village BA” has been discovered by the public in a panoramic way with a great sense of presence, life and impact on facial features, in a trance, I was shocked by Tian Jing “.
However, after a wave of popularity last year, the local people did not take pride in the glory for a while and were satisfied with the flowers and applause in front of them. Instead, they took advantage of the trend and took advantage of the trend. In order to expand the influence of the event and enhance the experience of watching the event, taitabou village launched the stadium reconstruction and expansion project, adding many new facilities and increasing the audience seats to more than 20,000; it opened the first “village BA” offline experience store, which was collectively invested by the village. Mascot doll, basketball, team uniforms and other characteristic cultural and creative products were sold well.
“Village BA” is not just a basketball game. The local government put forward the concept of “promoting health by competition, promoting culture by competition, promoting travel by competition, promoting production by competition, promoting elimination by competition, and promoting prosperity by competition. According to the statistics of Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau, up to now, the first “beautiful countryside” basketball league in Guizhou province has carried out more than 5,000 games, effectively driving the development of tourism, culture, economy and so on.
It can be said that “village BA” is a classic case of the rise of local culture in the Network Era. The word “place” usually represents intolerance, isolation, limitations and barriers. However, in any small piece of land, as long as it is serious enough and careful enough, it can acquire the world. Take basketball as an example, what plays a decisive role is not breadth or technology, but the depth of root.
We were moved by the depth presented by “village BA.
Nowadays, “village BA” has become a new business card in Guizhou. Combing the history of “village BA” and exploring its reasons for going to Longsheng and its rooted soil, we can find that it is the result of the collision of multiple cultural elements and opportunities of the times. However, this kind of “fruit” may also be used as a “cause”. Under the background of rural revitalization in the new era, we should sum up, diverge, and go to the wider countryside to produce more fruitful, sweeter fruit, including physical and spiritual.