What are the traditional Kyoto sports?

Traditional sports of the Jing people are a form of national sports culture developed along with the production and life practices of the Jing people. In the long-term production struggle, the Jing people have created a colorful sports culture, popular traditional sports such as "dog fighting", wrestling feet (on stilts), jumping bamboo poles, top bamboo poles and swimming to catch ducks and other poles. Now we will come together to understand the culture of the Jing people it.

Jumping Bamboo Pole

Jumping Bamboo Pole is a kind of instrumental dance popularized in the folk of the Jing people, using bamboo poles as instruments.

In the Jing dance, eight bamboo poles are placed horizontally on two long logs placed parallel to each other on the ground, and the participants are divided into four pairs of eight men or women sitting in two rows. Jumping bamboo poles after the start of the hands of each bamboo pole end, in accordance with the rhythmic drum beat knocking wooden poles, and bamboo poles, making a rhythmic and staccato sound. And the young girls will do all kinds of movements on it skillfully with the beat and the opening and closing of the bamboo poles. When a single person jumps, they jump step by step in the four spaces, dancing while jumping and traveling back and forth. Double jump or multi-person jump, movement coordination and neat, before and after each other, stretching and beautiful.

Top Bamboo Pole

Top Bamboo Pole is an athletic program of the Jing people.

The top of the bamboo pole competition, you must prepare a bamboo pole about 3 meters long. After the start of the game, the confrontation between the two sides of the bamboo pole end, the hand stretched out flat, hard to push. This form of competition, both to have the strength to promote, but also need to have the skill of the gas, is a class of both the fight and the fight clever athletic activities. The one whose arm is bent loses the match. Both men and women of the Kyung ethnic group can participate.

Swimming to catch ducks

The area inhabited by the Kyung ethnic group, year-round with the water as a companion, everyone practiced a variety of water sports skills, and swimming to catch ducks is the Kyung ethnic folk a traditional water sports program.

The riverside where the Jing people live, many ducks are domesticated all year round. Good at swimming, diving young men and women of the Jing people, often in the summer and fall rainy season to catch ducks competition. The competition is generally divided into two forms: individual and collective. At that time, people first put the ducks into the river ponds, beaches, participants in the competition to catch in the water. In the midst of the ducks flying around and diving to escape, whoever catches the most ducks is the winner. This form of competition requires skilled swimming techniques and strong physical strength, especially popular among young men of the Jing ethnic group.