Mongolian Wrestling Rules

Wrestling, known as "wrestling" in Mongolian, is a traditional Mongolian sport. The wrestler is the Bak-Bayil Dehu. As early as the thirteenth century has been prevalent in the northern grasslands. It is both a sport and a recreational activity. Belongs to the sacrifice of Ovoo and Naadam Assembly. Modern Fangzhi records: "since ancient times, for Mongolia's most addicted to the game, now is prevalent in northern Mongolia, if the Eerbo festival day, will be held in this technique, the corner of the leather of the singlet, across the boots, east and west of a person, on the field and fight to knock down the other side for the win. Patriarchs and princes to watch, awarded the winner with prizes, usually the Department of juveniles, set two, three people and the line." This shows that the Mongolians not only in the Naadam and sacrifice Ovoo, and in ordinary times also three or five get together, wrestling for fun.

Mongolian wrestling has a unique national style. Wrestling match, wearing a copper studded cowhide shoulder "Zhaodag", head wrapped in red, yellow, blue turban, foot Mongolia flower leather boots, waist tie flower belt, wearing pants underneath, hanging on the neck with a colorful ribbon. When they appear, both wrestlers wave their arms, and then wrestle with each other. Mongolian wrestling is not graded, take the way of elimination, the final out of the champion hand, runner-up hand and the third place, respectively, awarded honorary titles and prizes.

Mongolian wrestling is historically recorded in the thirteenth century. At that time, the popular form of wrestling was not different from the later Mongolian wrestling, which was prevalent at that time was the so-called freestyle wrestling. This form of wrestling stipulated that a wrestler could still wrestle while lying down, and the winner would be the one who landed on both shoulders of his opponent. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, participants could use various means to subdue each other, and accidents involving injuries and deaths were common.

The number of participants in wrestling is not limited, but must be an even number, less than two to four people, more than a thousand people, the game winners and losers to take a single-elimination method, the Mongolian people have a lot of wrestling skills, you can catch, pull, pull, push, pressure and other basic skills of thirteen evolved out of more than one hundred actions, you can catch the wrestling clothes, belts, trouser belts, but not allowed to hold the legs, are not allowed to hit the face, are not allowed to suddenly pull people down from the back, touch the eyes and ears, not allowed to pull hair, kick the stomach. ears, no hair pulling, kicking in the stomach or anywhere above the knee.

In the beginning of wrestling, wrestlers should be wrestling suit, wearing cowhide or canvas made of tight short-sleeved undershirt, nailed with several lines of copper and silver nails, the back of the round glasses or "auspicious" and other words. In Mongolian, it is called Zhaodag. Wearing a fat pants embroidered with a variety of animal and floral patterns, with 15 or 16 feet long white silk and various colors of silk material made of red, blue and yellow silk around the waist to do the skirt, the Mongolian language, said Hili Bug, the waist is also tied with a flower belt, Kuhai money face double knee for the embroidery of chic patterns. There are peacock feather-shaped, fire-shaped and other auspicious patterns. Feet mounted Mongolian boots and riding boots, head wrapped in red, blue, yellow turban, neck with colorful ribbons.

Mongolian wrestling is different from both Chinese wrestling and Japanese sumo wrestling. It has its own characteristics in rules, methods, costumes and venues. Mongolian wrestling comes up to grab each other, and any part of the ground above the knee is a failure. The number of wrestlers is eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and fifty-six and other even numbers, and the total number cannot be odd. Entries are made without regard to nationality, region, or weight. Arranging opponents is the responsibility of highly respected plant judges, without consulting the wrestlers. The tournament is based on a single elimination system, i.e., half of each round is eliminated.

The wrestler's clothing is more elaborate, wearing fat white pants underneath, and then outside a set of embroidered with a variety of animal and floral patterns of the pants, the top is made of cowhide, nailed to the upper side of the bank or copper nails, the back of the middle of the round mirror or "auspicious" and other words, the waist tied with a red, blue, yellow silk made of apron, feet in Mongolian boots or riding boots. Foot Mongolian boots or riding boots. Famous wrestlers wear colorful cloth collars around their necks - Ganga, looks very powerful. It is a symbol of victory at a certain level of competition.

The venue is simple, as long as there is a piece of grass or a soft open space with spectators seated around it, the wrestlers can compete in the center. Before the match, both sides have to sing a challenge song to rib the momentum, sung three times, the two wrestlers jumped out, doing the eagle wings dance into the venue.

The match began, wrestling the two sides greet each other and salute to the audience, began to compete. In a moment, the fight pounced on each other, circling each other, legs and knees hit each other. Mongolian wrestling to win by trickery, a wrestle to determine the winner, as long as the body has a place on the ground is considered to have lost. However, it is not allowed to hold the leg, anti-joint action, and pants pulling. Mongolian wrestling is divided into more than 30 kinds of kicks, trips, entanglements, picks, hooks and more than 300 actions. Where the winner, to the referee's platform hands out of the pre-prepared fruit, milk food, and then run while spreading in the crowd of onlookers, so that everyone can share his "fruits of victory".

In recent years, after the reform, the ancient Mongolian wrestling, with its translation - wrestling famous. In the major Naadam conference, there are women's wrestling competition. She is a delicate and colorful oddball on the Naadam sports arena, doubly favored by domestic and foreign guests. Women's wrestling unique charm of the ornamental value, for the Naadam conference weaving a bunch of colorful rings.

After the reform of wrestling, often with a separate project constitutes a competition, which not only has individual championships, but also has a team competition, performance and consolation, thus for the old Mongolian wrestling, injected unlimited vitality. As a result, wrestling has been on the hall of fame of national competitions.