Beikou

Beikou

Beikou is a game similar to field hockey or street hockey. It has been played for about 1,000 yearscite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/sports/olympics/23hockey.html|title=A Chinese Hinterland, Fertile With Field Hockey|last=McGrath|first=Charles|date=August 22, 2008 |publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2008-08-23] by the Daur people, an ethnic group from Inner Mongolia, China.

The game involves teams of men playing a ball-like knob of apricot root ("in lieu" of a ball) with long wooden branches ("in lieu" of sticks). At night, the game is played with a felt-covered ball that is set alight. A game is reported to last for two periods of roughly 15 minutes.

When Western field hockey was introduced to China, it was taken up enthusiastically by the Daurs, whose affinity for the game has helped China to improve its global standing in field hockey. At the 2008 Summer Olympics , a third of the Chinese men's field hockey team was from Molidawa, a city in the Daur region in Mongolia.

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