The traditional folk sports of Jingpo people mainly include "Tang Dish" (i.e., "standard target"), "Knife Skill" and climbing slippery pole, etc.
"Tang Dish": Tang Dish is one of the favorite sports of adult men and women of Jingpo people.
Soup Dish: Soup Dish is one of the most popular sports for adult men and women in Jingpo. The specific practice and playing method of "soup plate" is to put a about 10 cm thick, more than 20 meters long bamboo, cut off the excess bamboo tip branches, retain the bamboo tip, and then a thin bamboo gimlet to the ready items tied to the bamboo tip, and then planted the bamboo pole in the open space (you can also hang the items on the top of the tree). After the bamboo pole is well established, the boys in their respective barrel guns loaded with ammunition, aiming at the target "bang bang" to play a non-stop. When playing, only allowed to hit the thin gabion or thin rope tied items. Whoever breaks the rope to make the item fall, wins and the prize is the item that he knocked down.
"Tang Disk Avalanche": another shooting activity for Jingpo men to show off their marksmanship, mostly during the Spring Festival. Generally before the festival the young men and women in the walled village negotiated and prepared. Bamboo tips are often hung with items bought with money donated by young men and women in the village, such as handkerchiefs, necklaces and a small amount of money, tied with a new and beautiful tube-pa (backpack) woven with colorful fine woolen threads. At the edge of the field, young men and women also have rice wine for everyone to enjoy. If a man hits a dish, the girls will pay for the rice wine and water; if a man fails to hit a "dish," he will pay for the rice wine and water.
Sometimes a girl will put beef in a hanging tube or put her own token and convey the message to her sweetheart in advance, but this must be a sharpshooter, otherwise, the girl's token will fall into the hands of other young men.
"Saucer Avalanche" activities, but also in the funeral, this occasion "Saucer Avalanche". It is called "Shirui Bun," which is a meat weight that is hit on the tip of a bamboo stick. The family of the deceased to hang the meat weight of the bamboo planted in front of the home, meat weight with banana leaves wrapped, and enough gunpowder and bullets, please come to participate in the funeral people to play, in order to win more gunfire, the more gunfire, the family of the deceased, the more happy, because in the traditional custom of the Jingpo people, the deceased home gunfire more, it means that the deceased's relatives and friends more.
Knife fighting: Jingpo men wear long knives for the beauty of the Jingpo language called "Ri Ntou", meaning "life force". The long knife is not only a kind of decoration for men, but also a necessary tool for production, and as the most valuable gift for friends, some even as a token of love for men and women.
So, when a boy is born, grandparents first present a long knife. As the child's elders in the child's growth process, first of all all will be able to children make the knife. The village has a boxer, but also specifically ask the boxer to teach. Knife length of nearly 1 meter, flush, sheath, handle are each carved with patterns, patterns, exquisite also with gold, silver wire winding. As the long knife is carried by men, it is essential for Jingpo men in various grand festivals and ceremonial activities. The Jingpo Knife Dance, which is famous all over the world, is the most representative cultural and sports activity.
Jingpo knife art of the knife, footwork, action is endless. There are single knife, double knife, cross jump, five-step jump, seven-step jump and three-step chopping leopard, etc., the footwork is light, rugged and robust changes in many ways, the action is mainly to imitate the production of labor in the harvest, planting, chopping and other actions, to show the rich content of the labor and harvest revelry, but also showed the war scene, with a rich flavor of life and distinctive national characteristics, showing the Jingpo people primitive courage, toughness, tenacity and perseverance of the national character.
Climbing the slippery pole: this is a traditional sports program of the Jingpo people. It is usually initiated by the girls, first set up a 10-meter-high bamboo pole in the middle of the square, the bamboo pole most end of the section of the bamboo tube filled with oil, a little shaking, the oil will overflow, so that the bamboo pole is smooth and incomparable. Bamboo poles to hang on the girls carefully embroidered tube Pa (satchel), tube Pa is also equipped with coins and other small items. Climbing the pole of the boys, racking their brains, struggling to climb, exhausting the nine oxen and two tigers and finally reached the pole item, a handful of people.
The gyro: Jingpo people are also good at playing the gyro, and the gyro is very big. The basic operation is not easy, playing a high level is even more difficult, is the king of all the gyro.