Competitive performance projects highlight the evolution of ethnic customs in China.
On November 12th, Guangdong team players performed "Red Cotton Snow Lotus" in the performance project of the 8th National Minority Traditional Sports Games. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Quanlong photo
Xinhuanet Guangzhou Electric (Reporter Chen Peng) The competitive performances of the 8th National National Games profoundly reflect the charming traditional sports culture of ethnic minorities, and some projects even reflect the evolution of ethnic minorities’ folk customs.
The competitive performances of this National Games are dazzling, and many of them are entirely from the living customs and traditional skills of ethnic minorities in the fields. Dao Jianxin of Xinping County, Yunnan Province told the reporter that "picking flowers and carrots" is one of the favorite forms of entertainment of Huayao Dai people who live by the Gaza River in red river valley, Yunnan Province, and it depends on who picks the most and fastest seedlings and carrots. Of course, the scene in which the boy picks up the girl upside down with a pole in the performance is rare, which is an exaggeration of art. However, after the "exaggeration" of professional song and dance teams in recent years, it has become a new folk custom, quietly popular in Xinping County, showing its super charm.
The "flower competition" of the Bulang nationality is also very exciting. Two teams of young men compete on the spot to see who can pick the most beautiful flowers for their sweetheart. Many obstacles such as crossing the bridge, "climbing the mountain" and hanging upside down were set up at the scene to test the young man’s determination to woo. "This is also an exaggeration of art," said Yang Xukang, the choreographer of the dance. There is indeed a custom of picking flowers for my sweetheart in Brown Mountain Township, Yunnan Province, but the scene is much lower-key. Usually, the young man quietly finds his sweetheart’s home while it is dark, and inserts flowers in the hat she deliberately left behind; The next day, the girl decided her love according to the number of flowers and the style of flower arrangement. The competition is invisible, and the girl’s heart is the real stage. With the change of life concept, "blatant" competition is now common in Brown Shanzhai.
On November 12th, Guangdong team players performed "Dancing Fire Dogs" in the performance project of the 8th National Minority Traditional Sports Games. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Dawei photo
Tibetan Qiongmo is more life-oriented, and Tibetan compatriots from Yunnan and Sichuan are excited after watching the performance of the Sichuan delegation, thinking that this accurately restores the daily life of the Tibetan people. Seqiongmo means jumping on the laundry list in Tibetan. On the stage, young men with shovels and girls with laundry lists on their shoulders set the laundry list as "vaulting horse" after work, and they competed with each other to see who jumped highest and fastest. "That’s how we Tibetans play," said Zhuo Ma Lachu, a Tibetan compatriot from Zhongdian, Yunnan. The laundry list is usually a dung basket. When you are tired of work, you will leave the basket and have a lively and intense "basket jumping contest". At present, this kind of jumping method is becoming less and less with the improvement of living standards of Tibetan compatriots, but it profoundly reflects the unique optimism and open-mindedness of Tibetan compatriots.
In addition, the Yao people’s competition to celebrate the harvest with hanging grains has lasted for a long time. The Miao people are more and more emphasis on speed than Adapei, who tries to grab new people. The rolling grass pier of the Yi people in Wenshan, Yunnan Province has also moved from the stage to the square … "Every competitive performance project is deeply rooted in the traditional life of ethnic minorities. While we show it, it also positively affects traditional activities." Gesang Dunzhu, head of the Yunnan delegation, believes that folk customs are not static. Art has refined folk customs in its unique way, which not only makes ethnic minorities get more health and happiness, but also makes more people understand and fall in love with ethnic minorities who have these folk customs.
The National Games will "open a window" for the minority people in the remote areas of China.
Danzhi Tashi, who lives on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, probably hasn’t seen a train so far if he hadn’t participated in the National Ethnic Games. Today, this burly Tibetan man not only took the train, but also lived in Guangzhou, one of the most prosperous cities in China, for several days.
With the help of the Tibetan people’s usual entertainment and sports event-Yajia, it is known that Zhaxi, an ordinary Tibetan herder in Diebu County on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, came to the forefront of Guangzhou-China reform and opening up for the first time in his life and is also one of the richest areas in China. This unknown shepherd thus entered the vast world outside the mountain.
A total of 6,381 ethnic minority athletes participated in 15 competitions and 149 performances, including fireworks and ethnic wrestling, in the National Ethnic Games, which opened on the 10th. It is known that Tashi participated in the tug-of-war competition, which is a traditional Tibetan tug-of-war. Although he was eliminated in the second round, the Tibetan man still looked very excited. Although it’s a 36-hour train ride from Lanzhou to Guangzhou, it’s the farthest time for him to go out. Previously, he had only been to Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, which was about 200 kilometers away from home. Usually, he didn’t go anywhere, and he grazed more than 80 yaks on his own grass hill.
Editor: Liu Li