0235 - Traditional Gathering At Grasslands In China's Inner Mongolia. The I...Back

Traditional Gathering At Grasslands In China's Inner Mongolia. The Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region is one of China's major horse producers. It exported 300 tons of horse mane and tail hair last year. Early summer is the season for the herdsmen in Inner Mongolia to hold their horse-lassoing gathering, a productive activity and mass gathering that has been passed on from generation to generation. Herdsmen perform all kinds of equestrian skills on horse back as well as cutting horse mane and branding horses. They take the gathering as a good chance to display their horsemanship. Attending the gathering is a good treat. People from all parts of the region get together to drink tea with milk and wine and watch wrestling following the lassoing ... Cavaliers from all parts of the ragion on there ... attending the traditional gathering of lassoing horses.