What are the traditional sports of the Nu people?

Traditional sports of the Nu ethnic group is a form of national sports culture developed along with the production and life practices of the Nu ethnic people. Its continuation and development are linked to the language and customs of the Nu people, the festivals of the year, living habits, ethics, religious beliefs, codes of conduct, values, ways of thinking, ideology, mentality and feelings. It is a platform for the Nu people to express their trust, friendship, harmony, reciprocity and other interpersonal fellowship, and it is also an important part of traditional Chinese sports.

After thousands of years of refinement and Nu generations of pioneers of hard work, the Nu people have created their own unique and distinctive national culture. The Nu people are fond of songs and dances, and they love traditional sports activities. Influenced by their living environment, the Nu compatriots, who are rich in pioneering spirit, have created many traditional sports activities with wisdom and bravery. Typical programs include wrestling, kicking (foot fight), Nu ball, jumping bamboo, zip line, rowing pig trough boat, tiger and bear hugging stone and festival dance, etc., most of them are closely related to production and life

Nu representative sports

Wrestling

Wrestling is a traditional sports activity of Nu ethnic folk.

Wrestling of the Nu ethnic group is mostly performed in the form of two people embracing each other's waist or grabbing the belt. Match first by a third person to start, the game to fall each other for the win, using three wrestling two win fingers. This kind of Nu wrestling, there is no fixed time and place, for the Nu children and teenagers love.

Kick (foot fight)

Kick, also known as the foot fight, is a Nu ethnic folk to the foot to the competitive sports form of strength.

The kicking match can be a two-player match or a multi-player match. When the game, the feet kick each other below the waist and abdomen, to be able to kick each other down for the win. But no hand push and pull. This activity is mostly for the Nu boys to participate.

Nu ball

Nu ball, is a common ball game of the Nu ethnic folk program. It is mostly found in the rural folk of the Nu ethnic group.

The ball is usually made of hemp rope wrapped around rags or grass, with a diameter of about 10 centimeters. Nu ball game, choose a flat land and in the center of a line, divided into two halves, the game both sides to the line as the boundary.

The opposing sides of each 3 to 5 people, living in the two halves. The way the game is the two teams across the border to throw each other, can not hit each other's people or the ball can not hit the center line will lose. When the ball is returned, it can be hit with the hand or kicked with the foot. It is a simple and interesting game of confrontation.

Jumping Bamboo

Jumping Bamboo is a unique folk sport of the Nu ethnic group, which is a method of practicing high jump.

Nu jumping bamboo, more in the Spring Festival leisure time held in the usual gatherings of the occasion also jump. Bamboo jumping place is generally in the village or field. Jumping bamboo, do not use the jumping frame, but to prepare a about 5 meters long green pole, the two ends into the ground, so that it naturally rises into a bow. The closer the two ends are, the higher the bow is. When competing and practicing, young men and women shout loudly and one by one jump from the high shelf.

Pig trough boat

Pig trough boat that canoe, pig trough boat is the Nu folk a traditional water sports activities.

Pig trough boat is the Nu ethnic weekdays in the Nu River in the slow current section of the use of a class of canoes, generally dug into a canoe. Usually for the river to the other side of the tool, but not to the Nu people's "immortal festival", people often use the pig trough boat race, celebrate the festival. This custom continues to this day, has become the Nu folk traditional form of competitive activities.

The traditional sports of the Nu people also have a zip line (flat slip, steep slip two ways). The dial waist, playing chicken brown gyro, shooting crossbows, melon chess, cow horn chess and so on.