/PRZWT/On September 12, 2024, Zhongshan - The golden wind is refreshing, the fruit is full of branches, and the country basketball craze is coming again. On September 8, the Dadi Liucai · 2024 National "Village BA" Guangdong Provincial Tournament kicked off in Shaxi Town, Zhongshan City. A down-to-earth basketball feast ignited the infinite vitality and enthusiasm of rural sports. This event will use basketball as a medium to integrate rural cuisine, trendy culture and local beauty. 23 rural basketball teams, specialty agricultural product brands and rural tourism projects from 21 cities across the province made wonderful appearances at the opening ceremony. Guangdong village broadcast vitality go LIVE, Guangdong country singers sing with love, showing the diverse charm and vitality of Guangdong countryside, making "Village BA" a big stage for discovering and creating rural value.
In the name of sports, let culture sing opera, promote economic development, and help rural revitalization. At the opening ceremony, the relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that Guangdong folk sports have a long tradition and bright spots, and rural events are in full swing, rhythmic and beautiful, especially rural basketball has a good mass base, and the level of the event is leading in the country. The "Village BA" event once again ignited the enthusiasm of the people in Guangdong for basketball, and empowered by "Sports +" to "end" the characteristic resources of agriculture and rural areas in Guangdong, "light up" the characteristic industries and cultural tourism resources, and unite people's hearts with culture, so that Hemei rural areas are really "fire".
During the opening and closing ceremonies of the event, Shaxi gongs and drums, Shaxi crane dance, Zhongshan drunk dragon dance, triangle unicorn dance and other performances with local characteristics were staged in turn, as well as basketball skills challenges and prize questions and answers interspersed throughout the competition. The four major competition areas also prepared a rich cultural and tourism experience such as markets and intangible cultural heritage exhibitions to welcome visitors from all over the world.
23 teams come together
Setting off a national movement
In the 2023 national "Village BA" finals, Guangdong Dongguan Dalang and Guangdong Zhongshan Shaxi staged a wonderful championship and runner-up battle in Guizhou, and finally Guangdong Zhongshan Shaxi won the crown. This year, the national "Village BA" Guangdong Provincial Competition started from this champion town to start a carnival of national sports.
The 2024 National "Village BA" Guangdong Provincial Competition aims to strengthen the construction of rural spiritual civilization in Guangdong Province, enhance the fitness awareness of farmers, highlight the style of Guangdong farmers in the new era, show the rural style, lead the rural fashion, and create a strong atmosphere in which the whole society cares about livable and suitable industries and beautiful rural construction. At the same time, the "Village BA" is also actively exploring the integrated development path with rural tourism, cultural industries and other related industries, and contributing to the diversified development of the rural economy.
It is reported that the participating teams are composed of 21 municipal teams in the province, as well as the national "Village BA" champion and runner-up team in 2023 - Zhongshan Shaxi Team and Dongguan Dalang Team. The competitions were held in Longrui Village, Shaxi Town, Zhongshan City, Beitai Village, South District Street, Guzhen Town, and Yakou Village, Nanlang Street. 23 teams, 4 competition areas, and 8 competition days, 63 competitions were fascinating.
In addition, on September 16, the event will also invite a high-level and influential Hong Kong and Macao representative team to play a friendship exchange match with the championship and second place team decided in this event in the basketball court of Longrui Village, Shaxi Town, and visit the popular cultural tourism routes in Zhongshan to taste the taste of Zhongshan Bay Area.
Ouyang Jinquan, deputy mayor of Zhongshan Municipal People's Government, said that Zhongshan has a profound basketball culture and rural sports foundation. Since the first town-level men's basketball league was held in Shaxi Town in 1999, it has been successfully held for 22 sessions. "Villages form teams, and the whole people play" has long been deeply integrated into the lives of Zhongshan people.
The video of the team's style was played at the meeting, and then the representatives of the 6 teams, referee teams and village broadcasters in the Shaxi Division gathered on the spot, igniting the enthusiasm of the participants and the audience. At the scene of the event, the athlete representative Li Yanjun and the referee representative Ren Jiongfeng took the oath respectively.
After the official opening of the competition, the Zhongshan Shaxi representative team and the Yunfu Liantan representative team stepped onto the arena and opened the prelude to the "Village BA" competition of the national carnival with a wonderful opening match. In the next 8 days of the competition, the event will use group round-robin competitions, knockout competitions, play-offs and other competition systems to determine the top 3 in the 2024 national "Village BA" Guangdong Province competition.
"Village Broadcasting" "Village K" to help out
Culture empowers the competition
Using basketball as a medium, we will promote cultural revitalization together. At the opening ceremony, performances such as Shaxi gongs and drums with Zhongshan characteristics, "Drunk Dragon Dance", which integrates martial arts, Nanquan, drunken boxing, juggling and other skills, and the Triangle Kylin Dance, an intangible cultural heritage performance, ignited the audience, and the artistic performances helped the "Village BA" event to stand out.
As a unique rural basketball event, "Village BA" not only showcases the charm of rural sports culture, but also deeply reflects the integration of local culture and modern civilization, providing an important platform for the inheritance and innovation of rural culture. While enjoying the basketball feast, the audience can also feel the strong rural cultural atmosphere.
Gathering energy through culture and allowing the masses to share is the due meaning of the development of rural sports such as "Village BA". At the same time as the opening of the "Village BA" in Guangdong, as one of the important activities of the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Games, the second audition of the rural live streaming competition started simultaneously. Hundreds of rural live streaming hosts from across the province gathered in Zhongshan to record the wonders of Guangdong rural basketball with the camera, and use actions to speak for Guangdong's agricultural and rural areas, and jointly discover more beauty in the countryside. According to reports, the second audition will be from September 8th to September 15th. All villages will be invited to watch the "Village BA" on the clock. Finally, according to the quality of the submitted works, 10 players will be announced on the day of the "Village BA" finals to advance to the next round.
While inheriting the traditional rural culture, the "Village BA" Guangdong Provincial Competition has also injected new vitality and creativity. At the event site, the runner-up of the 2023 Guangdong Singer Competition and the players from the Zhongshan Division sang with love. Guangdong Village Broadcast went LIVE live, leading the audience to appreciate the infinite charm of country basketball and Zhongshan, a famous historical, cultural and food city, through the live broadcast lens.
At present, rural events such as "Village BA", "Village Super", "Village Broadcasting" and "Village K" are blooming everywhere, driving more people and resources to flow to the countryside, so that more Guangdong villages will be prosperous because of the competition, and gather more forces to accelerate the "Million Project".
Taking basketball events as a medium, Zhongshan has also created a number of "Village BA" tourist routes, focusing on the four competition areas, launching high-quality agricultural and cultural tourism routes, using the influence of the event to promote Zhongshan rural food and beautiful scenery, attracting more bloggers and citizens to come to play the clock in Zhongshan, so that football friends can not only watch the game, but also eat and drink well, and promote the event to break the circle.
4 competition areas + 8 exhibition areas
A series of activities ignite the rural fireworks atmosphere
Under the darkness, villagers and tourists flocked to the various basketball venues to witness this passionate "Village BA" feast. The holding of the "Village BA" event will not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of rural residents, but also effectively promote the development of rural tourism and night market economy.
In the main venue of Shaxi, not only the village basketball court gathered a sea of people, but also the exhibition and display carnival series activities were also very enthusiastic. The on-site agricultural products and food and beverage exhibition and sales area, agricultural tourism and intangible cultural heritage exhibition area, food tasting area, financial and insurance exhibition area, home appliance home improvement and sports products area, Zhongshan "million project" achievement exhibition area, Guangdong basketball culture exhibition area, Zhongshan intangible cultural heritage exhibition area, etc. became the clock in the audience.
In the South District, Ancient Town and Nanlang sub-competition areas, local specialty agricultural products and merchandise products were also displayed, and a good-looking and fun atmosphere lingered around the stadium. Shiqi squab pigeon, crispy meat and other delicacies exuded an attractive aroma, and wood carvings, stone carvings and other specialty merchandise attracted people to stop and take a closer look. In the on-site exhibition area, a variety of agricultural products and rural specialty merchandise products were dazzling. The audience stopped to watch, tasted and clocked in photos, and experienced the fun of eating, drinking and shopping in the countryside.
It is worth mentioning that the prizes of this competition are very Zhongshan characteristics, and will be composed of Zhongshan intangible cultural heritage merchandise and characteristic agricultural products. Among them, the champion is Dayong Dahong rosewood plain shadow engraving (deep middle channel) + crispy meat < unk > < unk > (2 pieces) + Shannon gift package + Shaxi gift package; the runner-up prize is Dayong sandalwood high relief (auspicious) + raw fish (2 strings) + Shannon gift package + Shaxi gift package; the third place prize is Dayong Burmese pear gall wood round sculpture (dancing Chinese lion) + Shiqi pigeon (2 pairs) + Shannon gift package + Shaxi gift package.
This event is sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Guangdong Provincial Rural Revitalization Bureau), Zhongshan Municipal People's Government, organized by the Guangdong Provincial Farmers' Sports Association, Zhongshan Agricultural and Rural Bureau, Zhongshan Education and Sports Bureau, Shaxi Town People's Government, Zhongshan South District Street Office, Guzhen Town People's Government, Nanlang Street Office, Zhongshan City Basketball Association, Shaxi Town Basketball Association.
