Chishui Bamboo Rafting is spread in the Chishui River Basin in Chishui City, northern Guizhou, which is known as "China's Top Ten Bamboo Hometowns". In the past, the Chishui ancestors living on both sides of the Chishui River often used a single bamboo or a single wood as a convenient means of transportation on the water in order to travel between each other. In addition, when people were rafting in the river, in order to catch up with the bamboo and wood floating in the river, they practiced the skill of rowing a single pole. Later, the single wood rafting was replaced by the bamboo rafting, which has been passed down for nearly a thousand years. The drifter uses a large bamboo float on the water as a boat, holding a bamboo pole upright on the boat to paddle, or fight against rapids and dangerous shoals, or leisurely row the river. The shape is beautiful and generous, and the movements are coordinated and coherent. The content includes rowing, reverse rowing, turning rowing, turning, sliding, changing poles, etc. Singles, pairs, and teams can participate in performances or competitions. The team performance formation is varied and neat and coordinated. The single performance movements are free and beautiful, and the speed is as fast as flying. They all integrate participation, entertainment, mass, appreciation, and fitness. In the 1970s, bamboo rafting developed into a must-attend performance item in mass water sports activities commemorating "Mao Zedong's Swimming in the Yangtze River" and the Red Army's Long March "Four Crossings of the Chishui River". It became a folk sports activity carried out during major festivals and became a performance item on par with the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Race. In 1999, bamboo rafting won the team gold medal at the Sixth National Traditional Sports Games for Ethnic Minorities. In 2002, it won the gold medal for performance items again at the Guizhou Ethnic Minority Games and the 2007 National Ethnic Minority Games. In 2011, bamboo rafting was officially listed as a competition item at the Ninth National Traditional Sports Games for Ethnic Minorities held in Guiyang. On May 24, 2021, it was approved by the State Council to be included in the fifth batch of national representative items of intangible cultural heritage. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)