Picking up the Silver Coins on the Running Horse
1 min readPicking up the Silver Coins on the Running Horse
The game of “picking up the silver coins on the running horse is a traditional sport which is to exercise young people’s skills on horse in many ethnic groups such as Kazak, Kirgiz and Tajik. Before the race, a lot of silver coins enclosed by the red or green cloths have been laid on the flat grassland in advance.
When the race begins, horsemen run at full speed and pick up thesilver coins sideways when they pass the place where the silver coins are In order to test young horsemen’s skills on the horse, people sometimes will bury the coins and only leave a corner of the cloth outside sometimes people also can install rails as obstacles and the horsemen must surmount the rails before they pick up the coins.
No matter who participate in the race, the coins will belong to the player as long as he can pick up the coins. during the race, the person who picks up the most silver coins is the winner. Then the game of picking up the silver coins on the running horse”gradually becomes”picking up the handkerchief on the running horse”.
There are some articles including the money in the handkerchief and whoever picks it up can possess it. Some girls throw their embroidered handkerchiefs deliberately on the grassland in order to let the boys who they like pick up.
