The light stadium of Dongdian village in the night was very lively, and the three-storey Ocean building next to the stadium was already full of audiences.
This basketball court is located in Dongdian village, Jinshang town, Shishi city, Quanzhou city, Fujian province. It is only one kilometer away from the nearest seaside. Even in autumn, the night breeze can still bring some damp heat on the sea.
What they step on is one of the oldest local courts and has held basketball matches many times.
The third floor of the stadium was crowded with people. Surging journalist Hu jietu
However, in the past, no one shouted out the slogan “village BA” and was more accustomed to using “village match” or “wild ball” to call the various basketball matches held here. When “village BA” became a symbol, the local accepted the name naturally.
On September 16-17, Beijing time, in the “Country Basketball Champion Cup” village BA competition jointly created by Kuaishou and NBA China, the basketball team of Chi Dian village, Jinjiang city, Quanzhou city, Fujian province won the championship.
Similar to the southeast Guizhou area, the various “village BA” in Quanzhou area also has a hot atmosphere of watching the ball, the commentary and performance of regional characteristics, and the mass events with villagers as the main body……
But what is a little different is that the BA atmosphere in Quanzhou’s local village is not only hot, but also a normal life.
Basketball court in Dongdian village, Jinshang town, Shishi city, Quanzhou city.
General Operations
When basketball experts such as Huang Yujun, yaojinhong, Yang Zheng and Chang lechen came to Dongdian village lighting Stadium, the periphery of the stadium was full of teenagers who liked them.
Huang Wenzhen, 16, was one of them. He came from Nan’an City 60 kilometers away alone to see Yang Zheng, the player he liked.
He told the surging news reporter, “I bought a plane ticket last time, but I didn’t go to Beijing if I had something to do. This time I knew he came to Quanzhou, and I wanted to meet him at anything I said.”
Contrary to Huang Wenzhen, Fu Jiancheng, a villager in Dongdian village, left a lot of traces on his face. He didn’t know who these basketball talents were, but he had to talk about other players on the court, but he can be like a few families: “These are all our local village teams. Of course we are familiar with the players.”
Compared with the basketball talents invited by the players, the local older villagers are more familiar with the two teams-Gangtang village basketball team in Shishi city is the champion of the local village-level basketball league. The players used to be the main class base of the Fujian Provincial Games, another basketball team in Chi Dian village, Jinjiang, Fujian is the 5th consecutive league of local village-level basketball.
There is no doubt that the two teams belong to the battlefield ceiling of the local village-level league, and with the addition of basketball masters, such a configuration is rare in Amateurish League. But in Fu Jianjian’s eyes, such a competition is top, but it is not unique.
“There have been NBA and CBA players here before. Although I don’t remember their names, the level of matches with foreign aid may be higher.” He told the surging journalist.
Fu Jiancheng, who is not very good at speaking Mandarin, has not been too far away to watch the ball, but all kinds of “wild balls” held in the local area are enough for him to face all kinds of dunk still calmly.
The scene of the competition.
Compared with the “drawing a lively scene” of BA in many villages in Quanzhou, the fans in Quanzhou are the ones who have personally “seen the big wind and waves.
In the Chinese Wild World text circulated on the Internet, Quanzhou Shishi is a place that cannot be bypassed-in 2015, a village-level competition in Shishi city, zeng Hao threw a thousand dollars and invited four NBA stars represented by Jason Williams in white chocolate, 60 players from the Development League to participate in the competition, and even cheerleaders from the Thunder team to help the team.
“Liu Yudong, Fan Bin and Hu Weidong all played here around 2000.” Chen rongren, a member of Gangtang village basketball team, added.
Chen rongren was also a man of the hour in the basketball circle of Shishi city. He used to be the main force during the five consecutive championships of CUBA in Huaqiao University and was also called “Shishi ball king” by locals “.
When talking about the scale of this competition, Chen rongren explained: “Like these lighting and stage effects, they were only available in indoor competitions in the past, and this scale was counted outdoors for the first time. But the player level is quite close to other local games.”
Village BA is easy to give people the stereotype of the grassland team, but various village-level competitions in Shishi city not only have high-level confrontation, but also have a system of related event services, it even spawned an APP dedicated to live competitions.
Similar competition specifications, even though the grass-roots competitions in many first-tier cities seem luxurious, are just “routine operations” in Shishi city “.
On-site dunk performance.
There are competitions in 365 days
It is not easy to form such a “routine operation”, but it can be perfectly realized in Shishi city. There is no other secret, just because there are too many matches. According to Chen rongren, “as long as you want to play, there will be games 365 days.”
Since junior high school, Chen rongren has mingled in the local game of wild balls. In 1997, he was only in the second grade at that time, and he could earn 300 yuan to 500 yuan in a game.
Chen rongren introduced that Shishi city has two official competitions represented by villages every year, namely, Shishi city village-level league and Quanzhou City National Fitness village-level basketball league. In addition, there are countless Friendship Exchange competitions with bonus nature in each village, and Chen rongren is the beneficiary of such competitions.
Chen rongren.
After entering Huaqiao University, he took his team members to each field to polish their skills, “Let me take an example. We played five games every day from the first day to the seventh day of the Spring Festival, there are no less than three games a day from the eighth day to lunar January 15, and one or two games a day from lunar January 15 to 30.”
“In such a month, I can play an NBA season.” For this kind of mode of play similar to devil training, the effect is also immediate. “The first week can make people collapse, but when they fight with college students, they will not be afraid at all.”
Perhaps it was the edification of countless wild ball venues that made Huaqiao University in Quanzhou create glory in that era and become the five-Crown King of CUBA.
In the game, the buckle was staged.
Foreign aid is requested to balance strength.
It is worth mentioning that the competitions in Quanzhou do not exclude foreign aid, and several foreign aid competitions are stipulated. A similar situation has appeared in wild courts in many parts of the country. The Wild balls reported by GQ in 2019 are the product of this kind of competition.
However, in Chen rongren’s view, the style of inviting foreign aid in Quanzhou is slightly different from that in other regions, “there are 100 or 200 village competitions in some places, however, there may be only two or three teams that ask for foreign aid. They belong to the enemy and fight for face.”
“But our foreign aid here is to improve the overall level and increase the team thickness of the village team. After all, the size of each village is different, so the strength should be balanced, mainly to play well.” He told the surging journalist.
However, going south and north to play basketball everywhere also gave Chen rongren a more unique understanding of the local basketball atmosphere in Quanzhou. “If we say the atmosphere, many places are very similar, but the whole Quanzhou area is winning in continuity. The basketball game is a habitual state for the people here.”
“The basketball game in other places is a bit like the Spring Festival. It is also very lively during the competition. Every day, it sings and dances, but as soon as the competition is over, it will return to another state. However, no matter how big or small the competition is, Quanzhou will continue all the year round.”
This sentence was verified by Wei Qunchao who watched the game on the spot. His job is the product design of sports brands, and his hobby is playing basketball after work.
Wei Qun Chao’s mobile phone. Surging journalist Hu jietu
Talking about how popular the local basketball matches are, Wei Qun Chao directly took out his mobile phone, and the WeChat group named “Mei Ling Jintang basketball friendship battle group” popped up a message, it happens to be the recruitment information of a basketball match.
The registration method is also very simple, as long as you simply pay some registration fees, “like this 500-person event information sharing group, I have seven or eight on WeChat.”
Rich competitions have even influenced the local basketball style imperceptibly. Huang Wenzhen described it as follows: “We play all games here. As long as people are enough, they are basically the whole game. Everyone feels that half-time is meaningless.”
The player signed for the children.
Here, there are 100 reasons for playing basketball matches.
What exactly drives the popularity of BA in the local village? No one can give a standard answer, but some details seem to explain the problem.
If you search for the word “lighting Stadium” in Shishi city, a full screen of destination will pop up in the navigation.
“The lighting stadium had been there a decade or two years ago. Now basically every village has a lighting Stadium, and some courts have sheds.” Chen Ronghui, a local driver, explained, “because we have a strong basketball atmosphere and good infrastructure.”
If basketball atmosphere is a cultural accumulation, then infrastructure can only be determined by local economic conditions.
In the research results of high quality development index of small and medium-sized cities in China in 2021, Shishi climbed three “national top 100” in a row, among which Shishi ranked 15th in the list of top 100 counties and cities with national comprehensive economic strength.
If we expand our vision to the whole Quanzhou area, in the past 30 years, sports brands including Anta, peak, 361 ° and so on have all gone to the whole country in the song of “love to fight to win.
“We have a period of time to put five sets of CCTV, nicknamed Quanzhou TV station.” Chen rongren’s joke is the best representative of local prosperity.
Live lion dance performance.
At the same time, South Fujian province rich regional culture and strong family concept, which are also closely related to basketball in modern life.
In the documentary “Ask the village BA” launched by Kuaishou, Cai Shichuan, secretary of the Party branch of Xiqian village, Xijiang town, Shishi city, explained: “the custom here is that the more people celebrate the festival, the more it indicates prosperity, if you want to make people come more, you must have a basketball match, so folk activities are slowly integrated with the basketball match.”
As a result, the local area gradually formed a hot rural basketball atmosphere-whether it was the age of children, religious festivals or the completion of ancestral halls, all became the reasons for holding basketball matches.
There is a saying circulating in Quanzhou: “Here, there are 100 reasons for playing basketball matches.”
Find more genes for rural sports
I have to deny that the emergence of the word “village BA” has made the grassroots basketball culture accumulated for decades known to more people.
From a photo of Qiandongnan basketball match in the photographer’s hand, to the live broadcast watched by thousands of netizens, to the Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian forwarding likes, finally, “village BA” events all over the country have sprung up… country basketball has been in a state of “thick accumulation” until the promotion of short social videos ushered in the stage of “thin hair.
Such changes have also inspired relevant practitioners.
“We have been doing sports business for a long time, and we always showed more good-looking content to everyone from the perspective of competitive sports before.” When it comes to the original intention of holding the “Country Basketball Champions League”, Zhou Tianyi, the head of Kuaishou sports operation, explained, “but now we find that everyone’s needs are not limited to watching, but hope to participate more.”
Huang Yujun, Chang lechen and other basketball experts participated in it, making a local basketball feast become the onlookers of online fans. According to the data given by Kuaishou’s official platform, the total number of people watching the BA final in the village of “Country Basketball Champions League” exceeded 0.1 billion, and the reading volume of related topics exceeded 0.17 billion.
The village BA not only breaks people’s stereotype, but also opens up the vision of sports practitioners on the sports sector. In addition to the top professional league matches in the pyramid, there are also rural league matches rooted at the grassroots level, it is also full of vitality and vitality.
Zhou Tianyi said that “country Basketball Champions League” is not only an activity, but also a long-term project lasting 3-5 years. “We hope to do a longer and wider competition.”
In her opinion, there will be more interesting ways to unlock in the future: “There will be NBA stars coming to BA in the village in the future. If it is not allowed for a short time, we will also consider combining some CBA stars with village BA.”
Compared with the popular village BA in the whole country, it seems that there are still more rural sports culture in China.
“We observed on the platform that except for the village BA, Hainan has a large-scale volleyball culture, while Xinjiang is a particularly popular football. In fact, each region has a sports culture that conforms to its own characteristics, and these contents are also worth exploring.”
Indeed, the village BA is just a microcosm of China’s grassroots sports culture. It is just like a leaf bud that has just broken through the soil. In the future, more sports seeds may take root and sprout in this soil.