Watch bullfighting in a small Chinese mountain village that crushes the Spanish bullring!

What comes to mind the first time those two words leap to mind?

Is it a comedy movie starring Qingdao noblewoman Huang Bo?

Or the three-player basketball game sung by Zhou Dong?

Or is it the poker game played by relatives and friends on New Year's Day in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

The first image that comes to most people's minds should be of a man fighting a bull in a wide-open field, surrounded by packed stands, and a crowd that rises and falls to watch!

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

It originated from the ancient Spanish rituals, and it was not until the 18th century that it evolved into the bullfighting show that the general public is now familiar with.

Spain's bullfighting has a history of thousands of years, people involved in bullfighting, known as matadors, according to historical records, the ancient Roman Julius Caesar, who ruled Spain in the past, was extremely enthusiastic about bullfighting on a horse, and then, bullfighting developed into a standing on the ground with the bulls face to face. So far, the prototype of modern bullfighting is basically formed.

Julius Caesar was probably the earliest known bullfighter.

For more than six hundred years after this, the sport was recognized as a symbol of bravery and combat, and was popular among the Spanish nobility.

In 21st century China, the first time many people saw bullfighting was on a variety show called City to City.

The program was designed to promote sports and cities, and featured a variety of games and teams competing against each other, with bullfighting being one of the most exciting aspects.

In many people's impression, bullfighting should be an imported product, high nose and deep eyes of the Europeans, wearing exquisite costumes, hands shake a red cloth, and a bull against, in the thrilling dodging, in the scene set off again and again the fever of revelry, so that people's blood chilled.

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

Many Miao villages in the south of China hold bullfighting competitions on selected dates or during important festivals every year, and they have even built Asia's largest bullfighting arena with a capacity of 50,000 spectators in a mountain valley in Guizhou, China, 9,450.6 kilometers away from Spain!

The largest bullfighting ring in Spain, the Ventas Bullring in Madrid, can only hold 25,000 people!

Spanish bullfighting, is a man and bull fight, China's Eastern-style bullfighting, the protagonist is two buffalo fight.

Bullfighting is a traditional performance of the Miao people, commonly known as called bull fighting, in the Chinese New Year, or other important festivals, will carry out traditional bullfighting activities.

Many people believe that the ancient period of the tribal leader Chi You, is the ancestor of the Miao people, the legend of Chi You copper head and iron forehead, face such as the head of the bull, back with two wings, the Miao people see the bull as a symbol of health, strength, hard work, heroes, the bullfighting culture may have originated in the belief in the bull totem.

The cattle of the Miao bullfighting are specially and carefully bred, not engaged in plowing, pulling carts, pushing mills and other labor, all male buffaloes, divided into two levels of wide-horned, narrow-horned.

Cattle fighting and a very professional system, first for the elimination, the duel changed to a single round-robin tournament, the final winner for the annual cattle king.

Bullfighting, in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong ethnic groups have thousands of years of history. Miao bullfighting scale and influence is, in Kaili (Yutang Town Kamakawan and South Flower Village), Leishan (Xijiang Thousand Households Miaozhai), Taijiang (county and Shi hole town), Jianhe and other counties and cities held.

The standards and requirements of the Southeast Miao selection of bullfighting is very elaborate, they want to see from the cow's whole body, the front body, the back body, four shoulders, four feet, hooves and claws, fur, cow spin, head, eyes, horns, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, cheeks, neck, shoulders, waist, belly, umbilicus, feces door, tail and dozens of parts to see, the Miao people believe that the various parts of the body can be seen from the parts of the body, whether or not it can compete with the good fight.

China's bullfighting, mainly concentrated in Guizhou Province, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, the state has a thousand bullfighting ground, fed by tens of thousands of bullfighting bulls, interested readers, you can go in person, to find out, and have the opportunity to taste the authentic Miao cuisine.

The Hmong in most areas eat three meals a day, with rice as the main food. Deep-fried food is most common in the form of deep-fried poi. If you add some fresh meat and pickles as filling, the flavor is even more delicious. Meat is mostly raised from livestock and poultry. In addition to animal oil, the edible oil of the Miao family is mostly tea oil and vegetable oil.

Chili pepper as the main condiment, some areas even have "no spicy dishes" said. Miao dishes are varied, common vegetables are beans, melons and greens, radish, most of the Miao people are good at making soy products.

The Miao people around the world are generally happy to eat sour dishes, sour soup is a must for every family. Sour soup is made of rice soup or tofu water, put into the tile jar 3-5 days after fermentation, can be used to cook meat, fish, cooking vegetables. Sour food mainly includes sour soup, sour vegetables, pickled sour fish, beef sour, pork sour, sour chili, sour radish, green vegetable sour and bean sour.

The Hmong have a long history of eating pickles, related to the fact that they live deep in the mountains and lack salt, and it is usually difficult to buy vegetables and meat.

The food preservation of the Miao people, the general use of pickling method, vegetables, chickens, ducks, fish, meat like to pickle into sour flavor. Almost every Miao family has a jar for pickling food, collectively known as sour altar. Typical foods mainly include: blood dunking soup, chili bone, Miao Township turtle phoenix soup, sheep vegetable poi, bug tea, Wanhua tea, pounded fish, sour soup fish, etc..

Miao people like to eat wild vegetables, such as ferns, fish grass, horseshoe vegetable, prickly cauliflower, railroad timber flowers, prickly five plus, water coriander, moss, etc., more than washed and cooled to eat. Some of these wild vegetables are both vegetables and medicine, eating bitter, but it is cool, refreshing, sweet with heat, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, summer heat, food and other effects.