Traditional Miao Game Bullfighting

The first time these two words popped into your eyes, what would you think?

Is this a comedy movie starring Bo Huang, a Qingdao woman?

Or the three-person basketball match sung by Jay Chou?

Or is it a poker game played by relatives and friends in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces on holidays?

The first picture that appears in most people's minds should be in a wide field, surrounded by packed stands, crowded with people, watching a man-cow war!

Bullfighting, in the eyes of Spaniards, is regarded as an elegant art.

It originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods in ancient Spain until the18th century, and gradually evolved into a bullfighting performance that is now well known to the general public.

Spanish bullfighting has a history of thousands of years. People who take part in bullfighting are called matadors. According to historical records, Julius Caesar, the ancient Roman emperor who ruled Spain that year, was very keen on horse riding and bullfighting. Later, the bullfight developed to stand on the ground and confront the cows. At this point, the rudiment of modern bullfighting has basically taken shape.

Julius Caesar is probably the earliest known matador.

In the following 600 years, this sport has always been regarded as a symbol of bravery and good fighting, and it is quite popular among Spanish nobles.

2/kloc-in China in the 20th century, many people saw bullfighting for the first time, which should be on a variety show called Between Cities.

The purpose of this program is to promote sports, publicize the city, set up a variety of game links, team confrontation and competition. The most exciting part is bullfighting.

In many people's impression, bullfighting should be an exotic, deep-rooted European with a high nose. Wearing exquisite clothes and shaking a piece of red cloth in his hand, facing a bull, in the thrilling dodge, it set off a carnival craze again and again at the scene, which made people excited.

But few people know that China also has a tradition of bullfighting.

Many Miao villages in southeastern Guizhou hold bullfighting competitions every year or on important festivals. They even built the largest bullring in Asia, which can accommodate 50,000 spectators, in the ravine of Guizhou, China, 9450.6 kilometers away from Spain!

Spain's largest bullring, Ventas bullring in Madrid, can only accommodate 25,000 people!

Spanish bullfighting is a struggle between a person and a cow, while China Oriental bullfighting is characterized by two buffaloes fighting.

Bullfighting is a traditional performance of Miao nationality, commonly known as bullfighting. Traditional bullfighting activities will be held during the Spring Festival or other important festivals.

Many people believe that Chiyou, the ancient tribal leader, is the ancestor of the Miao nationality. According to legend, Chiyou has a bronze head and iron forehead, with a face like a bull's head and wings on his back. Miao people regard cattle as a symbol of health, strength, diligence and heroism. Bullfighting culture may originate from the belief in bull totem.

Cattle in Miao bullfighting are specially and carefully raised, and they are all male buffaloes, which are divided into two levels: wide angle and narrow angle.

There is also a very professional bullfighting system. The first is the knockout, and the duel is changed to a single round robin. The winner is the ox king of the year.

Bullfighting has a history of thousands of years among Miao and Dong people in southeastern Guizhou. The scale and influence of Miao bullfighting in Kaili (Lianfuwan, Nanhua Village, Tang Ya Town), Leishan (Qianhu Miao Village, Xijiang River), Taijiang (county town, Shidong Town), Jianhe and other counties and cities are great.

The standards and requirements for Miao people to choose bullfighting in Qiandongnan Prefecture are very particular. They should select dozens of parts, such as the whole body, forequarters, hindquarters, four shoulders, four feet, hoofs and claws, fur, head, eyes, horns, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, cheeks, neck, shoulders, waist, abdomen, umbilicus, fecal gate and tail.

Bullfighting in China is mainly concentrated in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. There are thousands of bullrings on the ground in the whole state, raising tens of thousands of bulls. Interested readers can go in person, find out, and have a chance to taste authentic Miao cuisine.

In most areas, Miao people have three meals a day, and rice is the staple food. Fried Baba is the most common fried food. If you add some fresh meat and sauerkraut as stuffing, the taste will be more delicious. Most meat comes from livestock and poultry farming. In addition to animal oil, Miao people's edible oils are mostly tea oil and vegetable oil.

Pepper is the main condiment, and in some areas there is even a saying that it is inseparable from pepper. There are many kinds of Miao vegetables. Common vegetables are beans, melons, greens and radishes. Most Miao people are good at making bean products.

Miao people everywhere generally like to eat sauerkraut, and sour soup is a must for every family. Sour soup is rice soup or tofu water, fermented in a crock for 3-5 days, and then used to cook fish and vegetables. Sour food mainly includes sour soup, pickled cabbage, pickled fish, beef acid, pork acid, sour and hot seeds, sour radish, vegetable acid, bean acid and so on.

Miao people have a long history of eating sauerkraut, which is related to their deep mountains and little salt. It is difficult to buy vegetables and meat at ordinary times.

The food preservation of Miao people generally adopts pickling method, and vegetables, chickens, ducks and fish like to be pickled into sour taste. Almost every Miao family has a jar for curing food, which is collectively called a sour jar. Typical foods mainly include: blood soup, Chili bone, Miaoxiang Guifeng soup, cotton vegetable cake, insect tea, scented tea, fish paste, sour soup fish and so on.

Miao people like to eat wild vegetables, such as bracken, houttuynia cordata, water chestnut, thorn flower, ironwood flower, acanthopanax senticosus, cress, moss and so on. Wash and eat cold. Some of these wild vegetables are both vegetables and medicines, which are bitter to eat, but cool and sweet, and have the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, diminishing inflammation, relieving summer heat and dissolving food.