Buyei Traditional Sports Programs

Buyi folk traditional sports are rich and colorful, according to rough statistics, there are about more than 40 programs. Mainly circulated in the Buyei settlement in Guizhou and Yunnan, Sichuan part of the Buyei area, and are more prevalent. These sports programs have a long history, the earliest origin has been more than 2000 years, and the most recent has been about 100 years. Items such as mountaineering, hill-climbing and tracing, horse-racing, horse-jumping and archery come from hunting activities, and items such as floating stones on the water and swimming and chasing ducks come from fishing labor. --quoted from the network

Buyi mainly live in the Guizhou region, where is second only to the number of Miao another large ethnic group, but also China's ethnic minorities in the number of a relatively large number of ethnic branches, now there are roughly 3 million people have been formed, Qiannan Buyei Autonomous Prefecture, where most of the people live, every year, will be held in a strong national characteristics of the sports activities, enriching people's spiritual world. The Buyi have their own cultural characteristics and language system, and still retain their dialect, and the locals are jealous of speaking Mandarin and also speak the local dialect, which has unique cultural characteristics and is an essential member of the Chinese nation.

Every year, February 2, the dragon raised its head this important festival, the Buyei people will also be the same as the Han, held a rowing dragon boat to eat rice dumplings and other traditional customs, can also be seen not Yi and Han close relationship between the scores of the same source, the same root and base.

Wrestling is the most common Buyei sports activities, can enhance people's physical fitness, but also to promote exchanges between each other, here is also able to witness their manhood of the best place to get, and finally the winner can also get the people's respect and rich rewards. Every day you can see the national flavor of the entertainment.