In July 2024, the Ordos Grassland Village Volleyball and Farmers and Herdsmen Volleyball Invitational Tournament along the Huangjiu Province ended successfully in Etok Qianqi, Inner Mongolia. Different from the previous sports competition model, the "grassland village volleyball" integrates agricultural and animal husbandry production, national culture, mass sports, and rural revitalization, implements the main line requirements of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation, and promotes the sustainable development of rural sports events under the dual role of emotional edification and sports practice, and sets up a big stage for exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups.
With sincere love, continue the feeling of national unity
The "grassland village platoon" originated from a 58-year-old herdsman, Ma · Hugjilatu. More than 40 years ago, Ma · Hugejiratu went to primary school, and there was a campus volleyball team in the school, and he often went to watch games, and since then, he has planted a volleyball dream in his heart. In 2018, Ma · Hugejiratu picked up volleyball again at the Naadam Conference, but when he went to the sidelines, he found that it was all young people who were playing, and it was not his turn. So a volleyball net was set up in the ballast field in front of their house, and nine members of six herdsmen formed the original "Good Neighbor" volleyball team. At the end of the year, electric lights were set up on the volleyball court, and in the spring of 2019, the volleyball court was paved with artificial turf, so that you no longer have to worry about falling and getting injured when you play. The "Good Neighbor" volleyball team has also expanded to 14 people in 11 households, and Ma · Hugjiratu has also become a "captain", "coach" and "referee".
In 2020, Hugejiratu built the first indoor volleyball hall on the grassland with self-raised funds · Ma, not only organizing the volleyball match for farmers and herdsmen, but also setting up an organizing committee and setting up a WeChat group to announce the results of the competition in real time. After the indoor volleyball hall was built, it was full almost every night, and unconsciously, it set off a "volleyball fever" on the grassland. A small ball has leveraged grassroots governance, resolved neighborhood contradictions, promoted exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups, and made the feelings of national unity continue to heat up in the countryside. According to statistics, by holding volleyball matches, the number of conflicts and disputes in Angsu Town has dropped by more than 15%.
With the participation of the whole people, draw a circle of national unity
In order to better meet the ardent needs of farmers and herdsmen to play volleyball, Angsu Town included the construction of volleyball sports venues in the Huimin project, and built a number of color steel indoor volleyball venues through the method of "collective investment + self-financing". Up to now, there are 24 volleyball courts in the town, with a coverage rate of 90%. In this town with a permanent population of less than 8,000 people, more than 400 volleyball games of various sizes are held every year. In August 2023, the first "Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningjin" five provinces and regions of the "Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningjin" five provinces and regions of the volleyball "village VA" invitational tournament was held, attracting 46 teams and 415 volleyball enthusiasts from the whole banner, 87 teams from the five surrounding provinces and regions, and 851 farmers and herdsmen actively participated. In Etuoke Qianqi, the "Grassland Village Platoon" has become an event with a wide base of people.
"Prairie Village Platoon" has always adhered to the concept of national participation and sharing of sports events. During the event, Etuoke Qianqi launched the "Grassland Village Volleyball is about to start!" What can I do for the village? A series of activities such as "How to Protect the Village Platoon", "What I Do to Create the Atmosphere of the Village Platoon", and guide the whole people to participate. In terms of volunteer service, the volunteers of the "Grassland Village Platoon" uphold the volunteer spirit of "dedication, friendship, mutual assistance and progress", and sprinkle their sweat in every corner of the "Prairie Village Platoon". In terms of catering and accommodation, the dishes are set up according to the tastes of the guests, and local foods such as "Huqian Banner Mutton", "Angsu Grassland Red Steak", whey, and sour mare's milk are selected, so that food has become a carrier of culture. At the same time, farmers and herdsmen are encouraged to vacate their own rooms for tourists to live, so as to ensure the catering and accommodation needs of tourists. In terms of traditional culture, Suwadi, the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, took advantage of this opportunity to show and explain the unique charm of horse culture to friends from all over the world, which stimulated tourists' interest in the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. "Prairie Village Platoon" is not only a grand event of national unity, but also a collision of national cultures, and a vivid embodiment of the participation of the whole people in the Etuoke Qianqi and the strong joint force.
Use cultural blending to build a bridge of national unity
Etuoke Qianqi is located in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the junction of Mongolia, Shaanxi and Ningbo provinces, where 12 ethnic minorities coexist and are embedded and integrated. During the halftime break of the "Village Volleyball" event, the Wulan herdsmen of the former banner of Etuoke attended in full costume, bringing wonderful singing and dancing performances and ushering in bursts of cheers. In the programs that appear in turn, people of different nationalities wear their own national costumes to cheer for the teams from different regions, and at the same time show their own national characteristic programs.
The two thousand-mile appointments between the "grassland village platoon" in Ordos and the "village super" in Guizhou, spanning more than 1,800 kilometers, are not only a friendly match in both directions, but also a big gathering of national unity. In Guizhou, the hospitable Etuoke Qianqi people brought more than 20 kinds of special delicacies such as roasted whole sheep, stewed mutton, mutton skewers, cheese, etc., so that fans from all over the world could taste the food from the grassland. In the Etuoke Qianqi, the "Super Saturday" friendship arena, the people of Guizhou with the intangible cultural heritage of the Dong nationality song "Happy Song", the original ecological performance song, the Miao reed dance "The Joy of Harvest" and other wonderful programs were staged one after another, this sports event with the sense of community of the Chinese nation as the main line, enhance the exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups, and vividly interpret the rich connotation of "national unity and family".
Use common prosperity to water the flower of national unity
The road of "grassland village platoon" is the road of opening up, the road to prosperity, and the road of the masses. Etuoke Qianqi seized the opportunity of "grassland village platoon" out of the circle, based on the development goal of "red cultural heritage area", opened a column of "travel with the village platoon", launched 5 classic tourism routes to tourists, built a "1+6" red education and training base with the Chengchuan Memorial Hall of Yan'an University for Nationalities as the core, and built a unique red education and training position and tourism route for the whole country. Because of the popularity of the "grassland village platoon", the company took the initiative to negotiate and sign cooperation. Song Jian, the product selector of Taiyi Agricultural Group, was attracted by the online publicity of the grassland village row, and specially brought funds from Xi'an to send grassland specialties to big cities to help rural revitalization and development, and realize the income increase of farmers and herdsmen.
Relying on the east wind of holding the "grassland village volleyball" event, small markets, farming, animal husbandry and other small shops were set up around the volleyball venue, and special catering, local specialties, and customs were "implanted" into the event, effectively broadening the ways for local people to increase their income. It is understood that on July 18 alone, the scenic spot, agriculture and animal husbandry received more than 6,500 tourists, generating more than 297,000 yuan. The three star-rated hotels received more than 3,700 tourists, with an occupancy rate of 95% and an income of more than 200,000 yuan. More than 10 kinds of intangible cultural heritage exhibition products, such as cultural and creative, paper-cutting, enamel skills, horse harness making, lacquer fans, dairy food, etc., have generated a total income of more than 50,000 yuan. "Prairie Village Volleyball" is not only a hot volleyball game, but also a platform for common prosperity, and a new practice of national unity jointly written by the people of all ethnic groups.