The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the General Administration of Sports issued a document to hold the National Hemei Village Basketball Competition “Village BA”. What information deserves attention? – Know almost

As soon as the problem came up, @河原师 told me:

you are interested.

In March, Zhihu asked a similar topic:

My first reaction was “Don’t promote for promotion’s sake“, the reason is also very simple:

All the folk competitions that seem to spring up overnight,Behind them are decades or even centuries of history of rooting in the countryside. Through centuries of precipitation,The villagers regard these sports as part of their lives, and these sports have also become a local social symbol, linking these families together。

This is not a “Learn from “Village BA”” slogan can be perfectly copied and pasted all over the country.

But this does not mean that if theadministrative orderMandatory national promotion, “village BA” can really start a prairie fire like a spark.

This is not in line with the development logic of folk competitions, and it will surely die of great success in the end。

result…

As expected, the file came down like this~

From the perspective of the spirit of the document, the core of promoting the “National Hemei Village Basketball Competition” is here:

The provinces use the slack season to organize grassroots rural basketball games on their own. The organizational form is self-determined and there is no rigid requirement. Encourage localities to combine competitions with farming seasons and folk festivals, with local culture displays, agricultural products exhibitions and rural tourism, and hold basketball games in rural areas to create agricultural fun and taste. Those who have already carried out provincial competitions may not repeat the competition.

There are two things to worry about:

• Do farmers really have time during the slack period?VolunteerParticipate in the competition
• Since the spirit of the document specifically mentions that it should be combined with agricultural product exhibitions and rural tourism, will it end up with the sheep’s head of the basketball game and the dog meat of the agricultural and sideline products exhibition in the end?

Incidentally, it must also be compulsory in a voluntary form, and the chaotic status quo after the influx of capital from various places.

In the final analysis, meat eaters need to understand a logic:

The reason why folk competitions are attractive is not whether the results are good or bad or whether the skills are exquisite, but because “Village BA” is a competition that is organized by the people spontaneously and rooted in the community (village). closely related。

Blindly combining “village BA” with local culture display, agricultural products exhibition and rural tourism out of the reality of each place, the final result is likely to be a feather in one place.

From the bottom of my heart, I like folk events like “Village BA” – because it reflects the “Sports for the people“The nature of mass sports also proves that theRivers and lakes farIt has self-growing soil.

In the long run, if the “National Hemei Village Basketball Competition” can create a regional or even national amateur league platform, and then try to open up the channel between amateur and professional leagues, and develop into a football system like England, even village teams have the opportunity to enter the CBA League, which is also of great benefit to the development of professional sports in our country.

However, summing up historical experience, the outcome of such an event held for the purpose is more likely to be like the “Chicken King Contest”:

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