Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage--Hongyuan Horsemanship

Tibetan nomads on the plateau of northwest Sichuan, known as "the nation on horseback", has a long and colorful horseback culture, and the core and essence of horseback culture is equestrian. Hongyuan equestrian, known as the provincial intangible cultural heritage, is a rare national light. This equestrian team has a unique traditional sports characteristics of the Tibetan people and the deep heritage of horseback culture, through their outstanding performances and excellent results, heritage and carry forward the horseback culture, has become the red county, Aba Prefecture and even Sichuan Province, a beautiful sports card.

Hongyuan equestrian has a long history, the old days more for the summer tribal gatherings, religious ceremonies held, equestrian sports in the red plains folk and herdsmen have an extremely broad mass base. Now the equestrian movement has been the red plains county mass enjoyable a sports, to now **** there are 36 performances.

In 1995, the Hongyuan folk equestrian team on behalf of Sichuan Province for the first time to participate in the Fifth National Minority Traditional Sports Games held in Kunming, the first day of the silver medal on horseback shooting, the second day of the gold medal in horseback archery, to achieve the Sichuan equestrian project in the National Minority Traditional Sports Games medals, gold medals, the breakthrough of the zero. 2003, the Aba Prefecture in the Red Plains County Town In 2003, Aba Prefecture in Hongyuan County, invested in the construction of the standard international racecourse. 2005 Sichuan Province, the twelfth session of the traditional sports games of ethnic minorities on horse project held in Hongyuan. Hongyuan folk equestrian team lived up to expectations, won the speed horse racing 4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze, horse project 3 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze results.

Today's Hongyuan equestrian sports is no longer a single folk traditional activities, but has become the interpretation of the development of the concept of national traditional culture of the social platform, is to promote the development of ethnic areas, the construction of the national folk traditional sports programs effective carrier.