What is the origin of Mongolian wrestling

In Mongolian, it is called "Wrestling", which is a traditional sports activity of the Mongolian people. Both sports and recreational activities. Mongolian wrestling in the history of recorded in about the thirteenth century.

At that time, the popular form of wrestling and later Mongolian wrestling is not different, the prevalence of the so-called free-style wrestling. In this form of wrestling, it was possible to wrestle while lying down, and the winner of the match was the one who landed on both shoulders. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, participants can use all kinds of means to subdue each other, and accidents with injuries and deaths are common. After the reform of wrestling sports, often with a separate program to constitute the competition, this kind of competition not only has individual championships, but also has a team competition, performance and consolation match and so on.