Feature: “Auntie Basketball” brings Chinese culture to Utah high school-Xinhua
by Xinhua Writer Gao Shan WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Forget the traveling call, just run with the ball. Forget about winning or losing, just enjoy the game. Cheers, applause and laughter filled the gym at Crimson Cliffs High School in Washington, Utah, on Friday as a women's basketball team from Guizhou Province in southwestern China took on the school's team in a highly unusual game that brought together two groups of young people - and two cultures - on the same court. The visiting team, known as "Auntie Basketball," comes from a grassroots sporting tradition that originated in the Miao villages of Leishan County in southeastern Guizhou. In the Miao community, women who have married and returned to their hometowns are affectionately called "Gu Ma," or "aunties." What began as...