Editing Manchu people (section)

==== Manchu wrestling ====
[[File:Banquets-at-a-frontier-fortress.jpg|thumb|Manchu wrestlers competed in front of the Qianlong Emperor]]

Manchu wrestling ({{manchu|m={{ManchuSibeUnicode|lang=mnc|ᠪᡠᡴᡠ}}|v=buku|a=buku}})<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|118}} is also an important martial art of the Manchu people.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|142}} Buku, meaning "wrestling" or "man of unusual strength" in Manchu, was originally from a Mongolian word, "[[Mongolian wrestling|bökh]]".<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|118}} The history of Manchu wrestling can be traced back to Jurchen wrestling in the Jin dynasty which was originally from Khitan wrestling; it was very similar to Mongolian wrestling.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|120}} In the [[Yuan dynasty]], the Jurchens who lived in northeast China adopted Mongol culture including wrestling, bökh.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|119}} In the latter Jin and early Qing period, rulers encouraged the populace, including aristocrats, to practise buku as a feature of military training.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|121}} At the time, Mongol wrestlers were the most famous and powerful. By the Chongde period, Manchus had developed their own well-trained wrestlers<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|123}} and, a century later, in the Qianlong period, they surpassed Mongol wrestlers.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|137}} The Qing court established the "Shan Pu Battalion" and chose 200 fine wrestlers divided into three levels. Manchu wrestling moves can be found in today's Chinese wrestling, ''[[shuai jiao]]'', which is its most important part.<ref name=jinkaihe/>{{rp|153}} Among many branches, Beijing wrestling adopted most Manchu wrestling moves.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://epaper.qingdaonews.com/html/qdwb/20120306/qdwb386565.html|script-title=zh:摔跤历史挺悠久不同流派有讲究|trans-title=Wrestling has a long history and different genres are exquisite|publisher=Dynamic Weekly|date=2012-03-06|access-date=18 March 2015|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309081545/http://epaper.qingdaonews.com/html/qdwb/20120306/qdwb386565.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>