Xuelin Essays | "Village Super League", "Village BA", "Village Platoon" Tournaments are Hot and Popular, with Multiple Meanings in Sports | Countryside | Events
In recent years, from "Village Super" to "Village BA" and "Village Platoon", and then to various forms of rural dragon boat races in various regions, "Village Head" competitions have become popular and popular. This is not just luck, but the result of accumulation and innovative exploration. The material life of the villagers has become prosperous, transportation has become convenient, and the internet has become smooth. The combination of various factors has fermented, making the "village head" competition more visible to more people.
The "Village Head" competition has become popular and vividly demonstrated the beautiful vision of grassroots governance, which is "one more stadium, one less card table; one more character, one less card; one more performance, one less dispute". Behind it, the people are the masters of their own affairs in front of the stage, while the local government provides good service guarantees behind the scenes. Practice has repeatedly proven that only by truly responding to the wishes and voices of the people, and realizing the functional transformation from a management oriented to a service-oriented one, can we foster a passionate transformation from "I want to do it" to "I want to do it", and then run out of the "new track" of rural revitalization and accelerate the "overtaking on the bend".
The "Village Head" competition has become a hot topic, and it also reminds people of "global localization". American sociologist Roland Robertson extended this concept as an academic term to emphasize the complex relationship between globalization and local responses, which is intertwined, contradictory, and integrated. Homogeneity and heterogeneity, as well as universality and individuality coexist. The "Village Head" competition effectively embodies the characteristics of "localization+globalization+informatization".
Why is fire in football, basketball, volleyball? Because sports communication is accessible. As a sports language that transcends nationalities and cultures, and as a collective project that can participate and interact, the three balls not only connect all ethnic groups closely, but also become an important way to tell about Chinese path to modernization. On the field and on the track, the trend of "sports+" is not limited to basketball and football, but also not just on and off the field.
Furthermore, the "Village Head" competition is not only a microcosm of global localization, but also involves the transformation of time, space, and personal experience. It must be acknowledged that under the influence of globalization, humanity is facing issues such as homogenization of local knowledge and the dissolution of local emotions. By localizing the accumulated local knowledge and projecting it into a common field, homogeneous social mobilization within villages and heterogeneous social mobilization between villages can be achieved, which helps to reshape collective consciousness and reconstruct moral order.
The traditional label of Chinese farmers is to work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Under the transformation of time and space, Chinese farmers have a broader spiritual world and more diverse spiritual pursuits. The popularity of the "Village Head" competition not only reflects new developments, trends, and demands, but also gives young people who used to have nowhere to place their bodies and minds in their hometowns more reasons and expectations to return home. The deep local sentiment in my heart has been fully released, allowing talents to return and participate in grassroots governance with more initiative and creativity.
Sports originated from human productive labor and social practice, and have continuously developed and improved with the evolution of society. Sports are a manifestation of each individual's creativity, an appropriate carrier for humanity to unleash vitality, a passionate pursuit of unity, cooperation, and tenacious struggle, and a profound interpretation of a sense of belonging and responsibility. Various characteristics make sports an adaptive product for grassroots governance, unlocking more new possibilities of "sports can be more vibrant, life can be more beautiful, and grassroots can be better".
Aristotle once said, "The state originates from life and exists for a better life." With a sense of belonging, grassroots governance and rural revitalization will have more abundant momentum; With a sense of responsibility, people's longing for a better life can gradually become a reality.
Nowadays, nearly 500 million people in China still reside in rural areas. It can be said that without the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, Chinese path to modernization is not comprehensive. Rural revitalization not only requires the comprehensive upgrading of agriculture, but also the comprehensive progress of rural areas and the comprehensive development of farmers. Sports, as a healthy, open-minded, positive, and open lifestyle, can help implement the "Healthy China" strategy, improve neighborhood and community relationships, and cultivate a good soil for grassroots governance.
At the same time, sports competitions can also improve the level of public service facilities, effectively gather villagers and residents, and use sports events as a carrier to enhance people's common values and sense of identity, including rule awareness and collective consciousness. It also helps to enhance the relationship between cadres and the masses, promote the realization of village harmony and effective governance. It can be said that the development of sports and the promotion of rural revitalization are complementary. The "Village Head" competition is a joy, an introduction, and even a way forward.
In the new situation, it is necessary to further release the important logical position and multifunctional value of sports events. One is to use sports to assist rural construction and make rural areas more prosperous; The second is to empower agricultural development with sports, making agriculture more prosperous; Thirdly, promoting the health of farmers through sports and making them happier; The fourth is to enrich rural culture with sports and make the rural atmosphere more civilized.
On this basis, in the name of sports, let culture play a role, promote economic development, and assist rural revitalization, truly transforming "flow" into "retention" and "variable" into "increment".
