What are the Kazakh folk games?

There are a lot of recreational activities that the Kazakhs have enjoyed and passed down from generation to generation, among which the main ones with representative features are girl-chasing, goat-carrying, horse-racing and horse-wrestling, etc., which are usually carried out collectively on festive days.

Girls chasing, girls chasing is a traditional game that Kazakh young men and women love very much. All peers of similar age can participate in this game. The process of girl-chasing is to choose a designated point within sight of the crowd. During the journey to the designated point, men and women riders participating in the game are free to make wisecracks and jokes to the women, and according to custom, it is not a fault to tease the women at this point. After arriving at the designated point, the man should be smart enough to get rid of the woman and run back, at which point the girl will release her horse to catch up.

While chasing, the man in front will be whipped with a whip. Of course, this depends on the woman is not like the man, if the heart like, only a few false, or gently hit on the back. If you do not like, will also be heavily hit on a few whips, to punish just said over the head of the playful. Many Kazakh young people in this game to produce love, and eventually partner.

Gripper is a traditional sports activity of the Kazakh people. It originated in the Middle Ages. At that time, the nomadic tribes hated the wolf on the grassland, once captured the wolf, the herdsmen will pack the wolf on the horse running, scrambling to grab, in order to celebrate. Later gradually developed into a specialized recreational activities, and changed from Diao Wolf Diao sheep, more in the days of celebration. There are two forms of teams and not divided into teams, everyone on horseback to fight for a cut off the head of the sheep, sometimes for the convenience of a sheepskin instead of a sheepskin to the last sheep and put into the designated place for the winner.