Fujian Jianou Culture and Folklore

Jianou folk sports activities are rich and colorful, often combined with annual festivals, temple fairs, festivals to carry out rowing dragon boats, dragon lantern dance, lion fight and other activities. Qing Guangxu thirty years (1904), abolition of the imperial examinations, the rise of the new school, the curriculum of each secondary and primary school are equipped with gymnastic subjects, teaching new track and field and ball sports, and to carry out organized sports competition. [18]

After the liberation of Jian'ou, the city sports committee was established in April 1956, and the government was equipped with full-time cadres to carry out sports activities in a planned and step-by-step manner, often taking advantage of the festivals, holidays, and agricultural seasons to organize individual competitions and comprehensive games, and to set up special sports teams for track and field, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, chess, etc., and to carry out amateur training to improve the technical level, and to participate in provincial, local competitions. [18]

According to 1992 statistics, the city has 212 comprehensive basketball courts, 575 table tennis tables, 4 roller skating rinks, and 980 chess rooms. [18]

In 2006, 25 municipal competitions were organized with 3,690 participants. The ratio of sports population reached 40.0%. Four sports seedlings were sent to the provincial sports team, the provincial and Nanping municipal juvenile sports schools, and 30 people achieved better rankings in the provincial and Nanping municipal competitions. [11]

In 2014, through the national cultural advanced county (city) review, the new 9 cultural information project *** enjoy service outlets, equipped to improve the 20 grass-roots cultural service centers. Mass cultural and sports activities are colorful and colorful, carrying out all kinds of cultural and sports activities 140. Was named Chinese printmaking, Chinese root carving folk art township, the completion of the repair of the Temple of Literature and was identified as a national key cultural relics protection units, Jian'ou picker was listed as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, the Beiyuan tea production technology (Fujian oolong tea production technology Beiyuan tea) inheritor Liu Chengwu, was announced by the provincial people's government as the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage project inheritors. [2]