[Explanation] Located at the northern foot of Leigong Mountain, the main peak of Miaoling Mountain, and on the south bank of Qingshui River, Taijiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, has 23 ethnic groups including Miao, Dong, Shui, and Buyi.

It is a local tradition to rely on festivals to hold basketball games. Taipan Village, which is only one kilometer from one end of the village to the other, will hold hundreds of basketball games in 2022. The largest one is nearly 20,000 people offline and online. Hundreds of millions of people watch it.

　　[Explanation] In Taipan Village, the villagers' love for basketball is engraved in their bones, and the elderly Lu Dajiang is one of them.

Lu Dajiang, who is over eighty years old, is full of energy. When it comes to basketball, he always has endless stories to tell. When he was young, he was the "ace" player in the village. He faced the challenges of players from other counties, and often represented The village went to other counties to play the stadium.

In the words of Lu Dajiang, the basketball game in Taipan Village has been very popular since its inception.

　　[Same period] Lu Dajiang, a villager in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

　　Every year, there are 50 or 60 teams that come from everywhere. (Previously) when we played, they came from everywhere. (Previously) they were divided into two courts to play, and the two courts could not hold people. Now they play basketball ( people) than we (then).

　　[Explanation] For Lu Dajiang, winning the ranking in the game is his goal, and being able to make close friends on the court and exchange skills is what he wants to get every time he participates in the game.

Today, although the players of the same era are all elderly, Lu Dajiang will still keep in touch with them and visit each other to recall the "situation" of the stadium when they were young.

　　[Same period] Lu Dajiang, a villager in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

　　To talk about one on the court, you have to be polite and civilized.

Whichever team is better, our teams will communicate with each other.

Without a coach, your team is playing well, tell us how you played, pass on (techniques), and teach one by one.

(Meeting) a lot of friends, they are all in their 70s now, I am 80, they are in their 70s, they are all old players, and we often see each other.

(Because of playing) we have too many friends, (now our friends) a lot.

Every year to eat a new festival, every village, every village comes, and they all come to play with us.

　　[Explanation] Wu Xiaolong, a "post-90s" PE teacher who went out from Taipan Village, is not only a basketball lover, but also a basketball coach and referee in Taipan Village.

Since he was an adult, he has participated in almost every basketball game held in the village every year. Because of the basketball game in the village, he and the villagers have made many friends who love basketball, and some even gained love.

　　[Concurrent] Wu Xiaolong, a villager in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

　　Because we have a lot of festivals here, whenever there is a festival, a village will hold a basketball game, and the surrounding villages will form a team to go to that village to play the game. The villagers went to eat and sat down together to exchange basketball culture. Some young people even went to this village to play basketball and found a daughter-in-law because of this game. This is also very good, and it has also increased the number of relatives between each village. The more, the better the relationship.

　　[Explanation] As a native Taipan person, what makes Wu Xiaolong quite happy is that the "Village BA", which has become popular this summer, has not only made the audience at home and abroad see the positive spirit of all ethnic groups and dare to fight, but also the Taijiang River. The national cultural charm and development achievements.

　　[Concurrent] Wu Xiaolong, a villager in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province

　　From the beginning to the present, we have been watching foreign NBA, football and other games every year, but now foreign friends have also seen us, my own hometown, and the games we personally organized. I feel this. I am very happy, and at the same time, very proud that more foreign and domestic people have seen the football game in our hometown.

　　[Explanation] In the opinion of Xu Feng, a researcher at the high-end think tank for the modernization of national governance at the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences, the basketball game itself is an event that pays attention to unity and cooperation. The "Village BA" event has turned a small number of villagers into players, and most of them into spectators and fans. The cheerleaders, the "carnival" of nearly 20,000 people, reflects the cohesion, centripetal force, and solidarity force that is self-evident.

　　[Concurrent] Xu Feng, a researcher at the high-end think tank for the local practice of national governance modernization, Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences

　　"Village BA" is not a basketball event in a village. It started in Taipan Village, and then expanded from Guizhou to the whole country, and even attracted global attention, allowing them to understand the multi-ethnic culture of our Guizhou, so that Many people are embedded in the same cultural magnetic field. From the case of "Village BA" in Taipan Village, it can be seen that there is a saying: what belongs to the nation is what belongs to the world. I think this sentence is well explained.

　　[Explanation] Now, the reconstruction and expansion project of the "Village BA" basketball court in Taipan Village has come to an end, and a brand-new and fully functional basketball court is about to be put into use.

Xu Feng believes that this is a window for the local ethnic minority compatriots to get rid of poverty and show their cultural self-confidence.

　　[Concurrent] Xu Feng, a researcher at the high-end think tank for the local practice of national governance modernization, Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences

　　Cultural traditions have blossomed in this decade.

(The basketball game in Taipan Village) has been handed down from the 1940s to today. This means that the basketball game has become a (local) cultural and sports event, a tradition.

From the observation of "Village BA", we ordinary people truly and truly feel the achievements brought about by poverty alleviation and enjoy these achievements.

The needs of the villagers for spiritual culture are getting higher and higher. Recently, they are improving the basketball court, which is to provide a better platform for our villagers to play this event better.

　　Yuan Chao, Zhou Yanling, Tang Zhe, reporting from Qiandongnan, Guizhou

Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]