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Chinese college hosts Naadam fair to pass on ethnic sports treasure

Xinhua, May 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

A two-day Naadam fair featuring ethnic Mongolian sports items kicked off Wednesday in a college located in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The organizer, Hohhot Minzu College, was to hold a series of traditional Monglian sports items including Mongolian wrestling, archery, Mongolian chess and others.

On the opening day of the fair, the college students and teachers, comprising mainly ethnic Mongolians, had attended a fire worship ritual, a Mongolian costume show as well as singing and dancing activities.

"The campus Naadam fair, the sixth of its kind up to now, aimed to preserve and pass on ethnic Mongolian sports treasure," said the college headmaster Gerletu.

More than 1,000 students and teachers had applied to participate in the sports items, he added.

Naadam fair is a major holiday for ethnic Mongolians featuring Mongolian sports that dates back to the time of Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Endit