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What are the sports programs of Wa people

Playing the chicken palm gyro is a traditional sport of the Wa people in Yunnan, and it is usually a competition in which villages and cottages invite each other to play in groups. Boys from six or seven years old to middle-aged men in their forties and fifties are very fond of playing the gyro. During the competition, a thin rope is wrapped around the gyro, and then the rope is quickly jerked and the gyro is put on the ground to make it spin. Playing chicken brown gyro is a kind of punching race. First, two lines are drawn on the ground, divided into three fields: front, middle and back. The front field is large and is the spinning gyro area, the middle field is the beating gyro area, and the back field is the flinging gyro area. Participants take turns to rotate the gyro and hit the gyro. Competition, a person first put the gyro in the front of the rotation, playing gyro in the back of the center field, throwing their own spinning gyro to combat the front of the rotating gyro to smash it out of bounds, their own to maintain the rotation of the winner. Failure to hit, the second person then hit, such as hit, but did not jump out of bounds, then hit the person has to retreat to the gyro flinging gyro area to hit the gyro.