Players compete during a village soccer tournament in Rongjiang County, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on Sunday. The village “super league,” or “Cun Chao” in Chinese, is a soccer game among different villages in Rongjiang County. Rongjiang soccer has a history of more than 80 years. Today, more and more grassroots sports events are held in the mountains and are using sports as a medium to showcase the unique charm of the local area, reflecting a vibrant lifestyle filled with agricultural activities and rural fun.

Liu Xudong