Probably you’ve heard fighting of
several animals, but this story is something unique and unusual. There are a
number of pictures in which you see two stallions fight during a traditional
Chinese New Year horse fighting competition for the Year of the Horse in
Tiantou Miao village in Rongshui, China. It’s a traditional festival which is carried
out a grisly 500-year-old tradition. The two stallions fight by the presence of
female horse to ring the Chinese New Year, who is kept meters away from the
clashing pairs by a villager armed with little more than a stick and when it’s
the Year of the Horse, the fights are considered to be even more substantial. The
horse which successfully defends its position close to the female is declared
the winner.
Animals Asia has said the female
horses are sometimes "induced into season through the injection of
hormones. They’re nourishes the horses in a small village across southern China
and have been condemned by animal rights groups; including Hong-Kong based
Animals Asia. But those who participate in the events defend the fights and
insist they take care of the animals. Members of the Miao ethnic group encourage
the animals fight and betting on the winner. The tournaments can earn the
winner 10,000 yuan (around $1,650) and are happening more frequently now, as
the Year of the Horse begins. The inhabitants of this area argue that
horse-fighting is steeped in tradition and without horse fighting it wouldn't
feel like a new year and also referring to horse’s bloody bites, We have adequate
medicine to treat his injuries, and after some times he will gradually get
better. As most of people know horses are not naturally aggressive and wouldn’t
normally engage in their behavior like this. Moreover; Horse-fighting has been
outlawed in many countries but not here in China. The animal activists from the
non-profit organization Animals Asia called the tradition a “horrific spectacle"
and says that local government officials now actively boost this cruel event in
order to entice tourists to this area.