Dancing on horseback, urging horses to offer flowers, standing upright, and turning 180 degrees ......During the Spring Festival, in the 2024 National Traditional Equestrian Show and National Horse Racing Event held in Lhasa, the riders galloped and showed off their skills immediately, and the audience shouted and cheered.
This year, the Tibetan New Year coincides with the Lunar New Year, with plateau athletes galloping on horseback to celebrate the Sino-Tibetan New Year with traditional sports activities. The event includes an equestrian show and a national horse race. Among them, there are 18 major events and more than 20 small events in equestrian performances, and national horse racing includes 3 events of 3000 meters, 5000 meters and 8000 meters. ** Tashi Tajie, a traditional equestrian coach of the Autonomous Region Social and Ethnic Traditional Sports Guidance and Management Center, said: "In order to present an equestrian visual feast to the audience, we have carefully prepared for more than one month. In particular, combining the characteristics of horseback riding and traditional archery sports, the horse archery (five-in-a-row) project was innovated to make it more ornamental. ”
After fierce competition, the 15-year-old rider Danda won the first place in the 3000 meters, the second place in the 5000 meters, and the third place in the 8000 meters. Danda and his beloved horse cooperated tacitly on the field, and their wonderful performance attracted warm applause from the audience. "I grew up on horseback and loved the feeling of running in the wind," Danda said. ”
Compared with Danda, Bai Ma Deji is a more senior rider, and at the age of 26, she has been practicing equestrianism for 13 years in the national traditional equestrian team of the ** Autonomous Region Social and Ethnic Traditional Sports Guidance and Management Center. She participated in four performances, including dancing on horseback, and "although I usually train hard, I am very satisfied to hear the enthusiastic shouts and cheers of the audience during the equestrian performance."
At the race site, the rider's performance was praised by the audience. "Wonderful, exciting, shocking! Fu Wenliang, a tourist from Liaoning, expressed his feelings in 6 words. Ke Cheng, a 15-year-old tourist from Sichuan, said: "The uncles and aunts are so good, and the little riders are also very good, and I want to ride horses with them." ”
Equestrian sports are a symbol of auspiciousness, courage and wisdom, and are an important part of the plateau's characteristic sports. In order to inherit and protect the best traditional equestrian sports, over the years, equestrian athletes have traveled in the fields and pasture farmers, and have performed hundreds of voluntary performances for farmers and herdsmen. Equestrian grassroots performances have become the most popular activity among the masses. "Last year, we went to the countryside to carry out 11 equestrian performances, and delivered wonderful equestrian performances to the people's doorsteps, which were warmly welcomed by everyone. (Economic ** reporter He Jianming).