Traditional Mongolian Sports: Horse Racing

Mongolian culture in the national sports have always been in the spotlight, and the valiant horse racing is even more striking. Mongolian horse racing has a long history, as a nomadic people, horseback running is also what they are good at. The process of horse racing is very thrilling, want to stand out to win the game is not an easy thing. Let me introduce the traditional Mongolian sport of horse racing.

1, horse racing introduction

Mongolian and Arabian horses were once the world's two most famous horse, Mongolian horse is the Mongolian people for a long time to cultivate the excellent horse breed. Mongolian people love horses, horse racing is also the favorite activities of men, women and children. Whenever the end of spring and the beginning of summer, to the horse playing mane, de-emphasis, printing number, many young people to help, in addition to work, horse racing has become a habit. Is a few people grazing together or on the road to meet also want to run a few thousand meters than who's riding high, to see who's horse fast. Whenever the grasslands held the Naadam Conference, near the fifty kilometers around. Hundreds of kilometers away from the herdsmen, have to drive by horse rushed to the party, to participate in the long-distance horse racing Phi Hong Zha color. Mongolian horse racing is one of the traditional sports and recreational activities of the Mongolian people. The old name of horse racing, archery, wrestling for men's three sports. Mongolian horse racing now more in the Naadam conference held. At that time in Inner Mongolia on the prairie, near and far hundreds of miles to hundreds of miles of herdsmen drove by horse rushed to the party, to participate in horse racing activities. On the racecourse, colorful flags, drums and horns long whine, lively and extraordinary.

2, horse racing requirements

Mongolian horse racing regardless of gender, young and old can participate. As few as dozens of people, more than hundreds of people, together on the front, straight-line race, its distance 40, 60, 80, varying from Hua Li. In order to reduce the load of the horse, young and old, most do not have a saddle, do not wear boots and socks, only wearing gorgeous colorful clothes, with long ribbons, look extraordinarily heroic.

3, the rules

The game is generally a red flag or whistle for the order. The race began, in the cheers of the crowd whip horse, racing to catch up, the viewers cheered and applauded stomping support, the first to reach the finish line for the winners. At the end of the horse race, generally want to hold awards ceremony, the winning horses and riders should be arranged side by side in front of the ceremony platform, first by the people on the stage singing praises of the horse words, and then to the top of the list of steeds sprinkled with milk wine or fresh milk and so on.