Manchu wrestling Manchu people
manchu wrestlers competed in front of qianlong emperor
manchu wrestling (manchu: ᠪᡠᡴᡠ; möllendorff: buku; abkai: buku) important martial art of manchu people. buku, meaning wrestling or man of unusual strength in manchu, mongolian word, bökh . history of manchu wrestling can traced jurchen wrestling in jin dynasty khitan wrestling; similar mongolian wrestling. in yuan dynasty, jurchens lived in northeast china adopted mongol culture including wrestling, bökh. in latter jin , qing period, rulers encouraged populace, including aristocrats, practise buku feature of military training. @ time, mongol wrestlers famous , powerful. chongde period, manchus had developed own well-trained wrestlers and, century later, in qianlong period, surpassed mongol wreslers. qing court established shan pu battalion , chose 200 fine wrestlers divided 3 levels. manchu wrestling moves can found in today s chinese wrestling, shuai jiao, important part. among many branches, beijing wrestling adopted manchu wrestling moves.
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