AKIPRESS.COM - A two-day Naadam fair featuring ethnic Mongolian sports items kicked off Wednesday in a college located in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinhua reports.

The organizer, Hohhot Minzu College, was to hold a series of traditional Mongolian sports items, including Mongolian wrestling, archery, Mongolian chess and others.

On the opening day of the fair, the college students and teachers, comprising mainly ethnic Mongolians, attended a fire worship ritual, a Mongolian costume show, as well as singing and dancing activities.

"The campus Naadam fair, the sixth of its kind up to now, aimed to preserve and pass on ethnic Mongolian sports treasure," said the college headmaster Gerletu.