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The amusement in Qingdao


There are three traditional Mongolia tournament activities which are horse-racing, toxophily and rassle.
Horse-racing: The Mongol think horses as their good friends. The horse-racing is held every festival. There are two kinds of horse-racing. They are the walk-horse and the horse-race. The match of walk-horse is to compete the horse to walk quickly, steady and beautiful. The match of run-horse is to compete the speed and stamina of horse. The straight line is about 20 or 30 kilometers on the steppe. The people who take part in the match are youngers, sometimes are boys and men contend for the champion once. Before the match, riders choose their horses seriously, feed carefully and ask experienced person to teach with meticulous care.
Toxophily: Bow and arrow is the clan hunt of tool and the important military weapon of Mongolia in the ancient times. It changed into the athletics movable device gradually, formed the toxophily and spread up to now. It is one of the key item of the steppe grand occasion which is called the Nadamu. Toxophily not only can do exercises, but also develop the people's calm, steady and resolute spirit. Mongolia use an ox horn bow, Pijinxuan, the wood arrows, and Tiecu in the past. The artillery range is 15-20 meters. A target is five kinds of color, the bull's-eye is live, the arrows drops down after shooting mediumly. There is still a kind of game which don't establish a target for archery, shoot the heap in the target on the ground far from several ten meters. That target is piled up of, presenting the tower form. The arrows shoot medium and tumble down all, you will win.
Rassle: It is the favorite sport item in Mongol and has long history. It is called Boke in Mongolian. It had the very big military, the athletics property before Yuan Dynasty. The soldiers practiced the power and the technique by doing it. The number of nelson is 8,16,32,64,128 and 256 etc. , the total amount can't appear the odd numbers. Arrange sainted umpire is responsible for opponent. He doesn't ask for the opinion of the wrestlers.
Half of people are washed out every game. Boke is very famous in the world. There is also the Women Boke Game.


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