Wrestling is a custom of which ethnic group?

Wrestling is a Mongolian custom.

Wrestling first originated in primitive societies and was practiced in the form of one-on-one wrestling. In 708 B.C., the 18th Ancient Olympic Games included wrestling as an event.

In 1896, the 1st Modern Olympic Games listed classical wrestling as an official event; in 1908, the 4th Olympic Games listed freestyle wrestling as an official event; in 1989, the 1st Women's Wrestling Championships were held in Martigny, Switzerland; and in 2004, women's wrestling was listed as an official event of the Olympic Games.

The highest organization of wrestling is the International Wrestling Federation (IWF), which was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912, and the highest organization in China is the Chinese Wrestling Association (CWA), which was founded in Beijing in 1956.

Extended information:

China's wrestling has a long history, it is a national form of sports, but also one of China's cultural heritage, according to the relevant historical materials and cultural relics, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, China already had wrestling.

When the development to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese wrestling has reached a high level. At that time, the salary-eating Buku was called official wrestling, also known as the official leg; private recreational individuals called private wrestling or private practice. At this time, the activity was known by a variety of names, such as guandan wrestling, scramble wrestling, wrestling, wrestling angle, rate angle, while the most common was called wrestling.

After the Xinhai Revolution, wrestling declined and was only circulated among the people, and the more famous ones were Bao Shanlin, Wei Dehai, Chen Delu, Zhang Wenshan, Shen Yousan, Xiong Deshan, Zhang Baozhong, and Shan Shijun in Beijing; Zhang Kuiyuan, Zhang Liansheng, Zhang Hongyu, Zhang Dali, Yan Shifeng, and Wang Haizhao in Tianjin; Xu Junqing in Shenyang; Song Zhenpu and Tian Yurong in Shanghai and Nanjing; Tong Shunlu and Hong Lihou in Jinan; and Hong Lixu and Hong Lihou in Zhangjiakou, among others. Hong Lihou and others.