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Why does Taiwan call playing basketball bullfighting?

Bullfighting is street basketball. It originated in the United States and has a history of 60 to 70 years. The game does not need to be played on an official basketball court, as long as there is half the size of the basketball court open space, erect a basketball hoop can be played. "Bullfighting" is not like the "big brother" five-man basketball so formal, it is everywhere through a relaxed and casual, each excellent street ball players have their own unique style and skills to win the audience's approval and respect, they make street basketball more ornamental and They make street basketball more ornamental and entertaining. The best streetballers are called "luchadores".

Although street basketball has not been introduced to China for a long time, its unique charm has quickly attracted young people who pursue fashion and love basketball in China.

The original meaning was: bullfighting, which is similar to cockfighting, is also a traditional game with strong wrestling. Two fighting bulls in the fight, each make the whole body strength and strokes, or head and legs pressed on the other side of the neck, or force violent shove to make the other side back, or neck against each other, or horns collision, and even their head to the other side of the abdomen, from below the other side of the top up ...... In short, the two sides of the fight is to try to find a way to defeat the other side of the fight. Bullfighting games used to be very popular in the area of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, where bullfighting competitions were held in the spring and fall seasons. The winner depends on the size of the bull's strength, the strength of the bull's technique, and the strength of his or her patience. If one side is physically exhausted or injured, the winner is already divided. Bullfighters immediately copied the horns of the bull, the two bulls separated from the master of the bull to take the bull out.