This article**: People's Daily Online-Inner Mongolia Channel.
People's Daily reporter Miao Yang.
At 9 a.m., after settling the family's sheep, Batu Zab drove 80 kilometers to participate in the winter volleyball tournament for farmers and herders.
The scene of the winter volleyball match of farmers and herdsmen. Photo by People's Daily reporter Miao Yang.
I have a volleyball passion myself, and my wife and children also play volleyball. In our Gacha, 1 out of 6 people are involved in volleyball. Today, I didn't even care about eating, so I made an appointment with volleyball fans in the WeChat group to play this game. Batu Zab had just finished the game, the sweat on his forehead had not yet dried, and he was excitedly communicating with his teammates on the sidelines. On the field, another battle kicked off.
Speaking of the changes since playing volleyball, Batu Zabu is very emotional: "In the past, in the village, everyone saw each other too rarely, and the leisure activity was to look at the mobile phone. Since we started playing volleyball, we have become more communicative, the atmosphere in the village has also improved, and we have become closer to each other by playing volleyball together during every event. ”
Batu Zabu is located in Erdos City, Etuoke Qianqi Angsu Town, with a permanent population of less than 8,000 people, but more than 5,000 people like to play volleyball, and there are as many as 49 volleyball teams organized by farmers and herdsmen, and many events such as "husband and wife match", "volleyball cultural festival" and "senior volleyball match" are held on a regular basis. Here, there are teams in the villages, football games in the month, and everyone is a fan.
One-pass group, two-pass group. There are a lot of volleyball WeChat groups like this in the villagers' mobile phones, and everyone makes an appointment to play volleyball together in the group, **volleyball skills. In the town of Angsu, from teenagers to seventies, basically everyone plays volleyball.
The scene of the winter volleyball match of farmers and herdsmen. Photo by People's Daily reporter Miao Yang.
The enthusiasm of the villagers for volleyball is really amazing, no, the volleyball hall is still brightly lit at one o'clock in the morning. Fan Rong, a member of the propaganda committee of Angsu Town, the former banner of Etuoke, took out his mobile phone, opened the circle of friends, and showed it to reporters.
In Angsu Town, you don't need to know professional skills to play volleyball, and there are no professional rules, as long as everyone discusses it, a game can be played. Here, each venue has its own "unique" rules of the event, and because of the "love of play", the villagers are closely integrated with the sport of volleyball.
Volleyball wall painting on the side of the road in Aung Su Town. Photo by People's Daily reporter Miao Yang.
Since 2021, a large-scale volleyball fever has been set off in Angsu Town, and the villagers' willingness to participate is also very strong. "Meeting friends with ball" is the expression of the enthusiasm of farmers and herdsmen in Angsu Town, "national volleyball" is a unique cultural symbol of Angsu Town, and the grassland "VA" has become a beautiful business card of Angsu Town.