Editing Naadam (section)

{{Short description|Traditional Mongolian festival}}
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[[Image:Naadam Festival 2024 Opening Ceremony.jpg|thumb|270px|2024 Ulaanbaatar Naadam ceremony at the [[National Sports Stadium (Mongolia)|National Sports Stadium]] in 2024]]

'''Naadam''' (Mongolian Naadam Festival) ({{langx|mn|Наадам}}, classical Mongolian: {{MongolUnicode|ᠨᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤᠮ}}''Naɣadum'', {{IPA|mn|ˈnaːdəm|}}, ''literally "games"'') is a traditional festival celebrated in [[Mongolia]], [[Inner Mongolia]] and [[Tuva]]. The festival is also locally termed "eriin gurvan naadam" ({{lang|mn|эрийн гурван наадам}}), "the three games of men".

The games are [[Mongolian wrestling]], [[horse racing]], and [[archery]], and are held throughout the country during midsummer. Women have started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but not in Mongolian wrestling.

In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the [[UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists|Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity]] of [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]].<ref name="airag">{{cite web |title=Airag: Mongolia's Popular Milk Beverage |url=https://www.cheese.com/airag/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102010707/https://www.cheese.com/blog/airag-mongolias-popular-milk-beverage/ |archive-date=Nov 2, 2023 |access-date=22 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="khuushuur">{{cite web |title=Khuushuur |url=http://www.mongolfood.info/en/recipes/khuushuur.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117075841/https://www.mongolfood.info/en/recipes/khuushuur.html |archive-date=Jan 17, 2024 |access-date=22 February 2018 |website=mongolfood.info}}</ref><ref name="Biyelgee dance">{{cite web |date=13 May 2013 |title=The Biyelgee – Mongolian Folk Dance or Modern Dance Form? |url=https://dancehistorydevelopment.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-biyelgee-mongolian-folk-dance-or-modern-dance-form/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510175220/https://dancehistorydevelopment.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-biyelgee-mongolian-folk-dance-or-modern-dance-form/ |archive-date=May 10, 2023 |access-date=22 February 2018}}</ref>