Going with the flow

A view of the Chishui Bamboo National Forest Park. "Peng was very responsible, he taught us how to stand on the bamboo, how to make it move, and how to balance our attitude toward the sport," he says. "It takes a lot of time to learn if you really want to be good at standing on a bamboo stem, so you need to be very patient." Thanks to its plentiful supply of bamboo, it is also famous for bamboo weaving, which is a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage in Guizhou. "We do not earn much from performing for tourists, we do it because we love it, and we want to demonstrate our intangible cultural heritage to the outside world," Luo says.