Bamboo pole jumping is a traditional sport of that ethnic group in China.

Wa people live across borders, distributed in China, Myanmar and Thailand. There are nearly 300,000 Wa people in China, which are distributed in Cangyuan, Ximeng, Gengma, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang, Yongde and Lancang counties, Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in the west and southwest of Yunnan Province. Among them, Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County and Ximeng Wa Autonomous County are the main inhabited areas of Wa people, and the population of Wa people in these two counties accounts for about 58% of the total population of Wa people in China. Wa people in China are located between Lancang River and salween, and distributed in the southern section of Nushan Mountain. The mountains in this area overlap and there are few flat dams, so it is also called Awa Mountain.

Wa nationality is a nation that can sing and dance well. Bamboo dance, once a kind of dance to bless the elderly after their death, has now become an entertaining dance.

The dance form is the same as that of the Li nationality in Qinghai. That is, two big bamboo poles are flat on the ground. Outside the two big bamboo poles, people hold the small bamboo pole face to face and slide back and forth along the big bamboo pole, and the dancers jump in the gap between the two bamboo poles. The dance moves are lively and cheerful, imitating the shapes of ants, turtledoves, leopards and thrushes.

Bamboo dance is usually held after the death of famous and influential old people in the village. It beats the bamboo pole with a pestle and dances, and all men, women and children in the village can participate. The local old man said: "Although a man is dead, his soul will not die, and he can't live in another world without singing and dancing, so people will sing and dance to see him off." It is this broad-minded view of life and death that has created many funeral dances of the Wa people.