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The archaeological(related to or dealing with or devoted to archaeology) discoveries proved that archery in China dates back about 20,000 years. Practical archery takes three conditions: a bow strong enough to propel arrows, arrows that are sharp enough to kill, and a technique to ensure the stability of arrows in fight. The bow and arrow in ancient China fully met the three conditions. Archaeologists have unearthed finely made arrowheads in a site of the Paleolithic Age in Shanxi Province, and could be mounted on a shaft. No bow was found at the site, since bows were usually made of wood, bamboo and perhaps tendon of animals and could not remain intact for so many years. But the arrowheads(an arrowhead is the sharp, pointed part of an arrow) were enough to prove the existence of bows.

The Bökh, meaning Mongolian wrestling(蒙古式摔跤Ménggǔ shì shuāijiāo), is a traditional sport for Mongolian ethnic group in the China. Local people living in grassland(grassland is land covered with wild grass) regions call wrestling “Bökh”. Wrestling is the most important sport of Mongolian people’s "Three Manly Skills" (along with horsemanship and archery). “Bökh” is an indispensable(if you say that someone or something is indispensable, you mean that they are absolutely essential and other people or things cannot function without them) activity for important occasions like sacrificial rituals and the Nadam Festival.