S festival time
Three times each year, respectively, after spring before in honan, the autumn harvest held after.
S popular areas
HouCang where
S festival source
The jockey club activities where it has the thousands of years of history, it is with farming and of generation, so the jockey club is not as a sports activities, but as a prayer ceremony of farming.
S celebration
Where HouCang is located in the region, and the economy based on agriculture, it and other Tibetan areas horse racing festival basic same, but not in the county and even more mass for the game and exchange of goods comprehensive activity, but in one village township for units for simple racing activities. It not only "every year once, but three times. Every year spring sowing eve, folk and villages hold a horse race game, Tibetan called "add camp", this is for morale, smooth sow; After spring, and to hold a horse racing, called "the event," the good is prayer, I wish the harvest; The autumn harvest later, to hold a larger horse racing activities, called the "real camp", the common people PiGong DaiCai every family, to celebrate the harvest, so it is not only as the slack pastime, but also with some religious color.
The horse racing to the drawee for a family a unit, whose overcome, and indicates the this year for a bumper harvest. So every household the horse racing see very sacred. The influence among the husband or brother reverence QuanJiu, old people is tightening saddle or help from time to time before strapping. The match began, riders one by one from the audience, Mercedes, armed with bows and arrows, while running, while doing many complex breathtaking action immediately, won the first place not only won the honor of the family, but also for this year's harvest that good omen.