Also known as
Mongolian wrestling · Bokh · Buku
Description
Bökh is the folk wrestling tradition of the Mongols, practised across
Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Mongol-descended communities such as the Buryat
and Kalmyk. It is one of the "three manly games" (naadam) alongside
horse racing and archery, with regional variants including Khalkha bökh, Buryat
wrestling, Oirat wrestling, and the Tuvan Khuresh. Depictions of grappling on
Xiongnu-era bronzes suggest antiquity of over two millennia. Under the Qing
dynasty, the Manchu adopted Mongol bökh, terming it buku (布庫), and formed the
Shan Pu Ying (善撲營), an elite imperial wrestling battalion of Manchu and Mongol
bannermen based in Beijing; that lineage is cited as a direct ancestor of the
modern Chinese jacket-wrestling tradition, shuai jiao.
Tags
mongolian-wrestling · naadam · folk-wrestling
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Bökh. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage
Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0TQQ4D975QSE0N8QCTF2K9Z - CC BY-SA 4.0.
Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M0TQQ4D975QSE0N8QCTF2K9Z, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Bökh}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year =
{YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M0TQQ4D975QSE0N8QCTF2K9Z}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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