标题: Bullfighting in Yunnan [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-28-2012 08:51 标题: Bullfighting in Yunnan (1) Bob Davis, Chinese Bullfighting: Too Cruel, Too? China Real Time Report, Aug 28, 2012 (video). http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... fighting-too-cruel/
("Yunnan province – where the [bullfinghting] tradition was born")
My comment:
(a) These are water buffaloes (the plural form can be buffaloes or buffalos), the only cattle Taiwan has--and now about four thousand heads are preserved under 台灣水牛保種計畫 by 行政院農業委員會 畜產試驗所花蓮種畜繁殖場.
They (in Taiwan) are tame--and certainly not as strongly built as the ones in this report (which are well fed).
(b) water buffalo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_buffalo
(native to the eastern half of Asia from India to Taiwan)
(2) Bob Davis, In Chinese Bullfighting Circles, He's a Bit Like Mike Tyson; Optimus Prime is a transforming figure who humbles rival, when he feels like it. Wall Street Journal, Aug 23, 2012 (front page). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 93062173053248.html
(b) The report syas, "The Yi people, an ethnic minority of eight million spread over southwestern China, have been fighting bulls for more than a century as a way to celebrate a harvest ceremony called Torch Festival, which fell this year on Aug 11, and, in more recent years, Lunar New Year."
(i) Yi people 彝族 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_people
(ii) Torch Festival 火把节 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Festival
(celebrated on the 24th or 25th day of the sixth month of the Yi calendar, corresponding to August in the Gregorian calendar; commemorates the legendary wrestler Atilaba, who drove away a plague of locusts using torches made from pine trees)
(c) The report mentions "the tiny farming village of Damogu has built a new bullfighting arena."