Participates paint their buffalo. More than 30 teams from China, Laos and Vietnam attended this year’s event. (Photo provided to CGTN)
But how exactly did this art form came to exist? Legend has it, the buffalo of a local villager was once attacked by a tiger. As animals rolled around and warned each other in the field, mud and blood spattered the buffalo’s body, which made it look terrifying. The tiger was scared and ran away. Inspired by this, local villagers then began to paint on their cattle as a way of driving the predators away.
