"While the contestants were battling on the field, the people were placing their bets all around them." Competitions with animals were a common feature of our ancestors 'lives. In Yiwu of Zhejiang, and in the mountains of southwest China where the Miao, Yao and Li peoples lived, bull fighting was also very popular.
這種動物競賽在先民生活中屢見不鮮，秋天農閒時，浙江義烏、西南苗傜黎族盤據的山區等地也很盛行鬥牛，「凡是可比輸贏的就能賭。」