Skilled bow-maker preserves traditions and helps disabled

Bows handmade by local craftsman Osung Dorje were welcomed by athletes at the third biennial Five Colorful Holy Arrows International Ethnic Archery Invitational Tournament in Jainca county in Qinghai province.

Jainca is known as an archery town, where in the past every family had bows and taught their children to shoot. Making bows with buffalo horns was popular in the county but the skill nearly died out.

The art of making the bows is now an intangible cultural heritage of Huangnan Tibetan autonomous prefecture in the province. The skill survived thanks to the efforts of Osung Dorje.