![A group of youths take part in a whistling archery race at a family hotel in Menling County of Nyingchi Prefecture in southeast Tibet Autonomous Region on March 23, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]](./W020120328503437558580.jpg)
A group of youths take part in a whistling archery race at a family hotel in Menling County of Nyingchi Prefecture in southeast Tibet Autonomous Region on March 23, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]
With a history of over 2,000 years, the whistling archery enjoys high popularity and embraces booming development in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, according to Xinhua.
The whistling archery is a popular recreational activity in the Gongbo area of Nyingchi Prefecture in the southeastern part of Tibet.
The whistling arrow is a wooden cone with four small holes and it whistles in flight when the air goes through the holes.
The bull's eye, made of leather, takes the shape of three rings with an 18-centimeter diameter.
It's placed 50 meters away from the archer and the two inward rings are movable. Once the arrow hits the bull's eye, the two inward rings will fall off automatically.
In 1997, the whistling archery association was set up in Nyingchi to standardize and promote the whistling archery.
In 2007, the Gongbo whistling archery was inscribed into Tibet's intangible cultural heritage list.
