Questions about ethnic minorities!

(1) Mongolians: Both men and women wear long robes with wide sleeves, belts, and knee-high leather boots. Men wear dark-colored hats, while women wrap their heads in red and blue cloth, and wear crowns embellished with gold and silver headdresses when they are in full makeup. Diet is based on beef, mutton and milk, supplemented by grain and vegetables, and they like to drink milk tea. After the liberation, most of the Mongols said goodbye to their yurts and changed to live in brick or wooden houses. In addition to the Spring Festival and other festivals, the Mongolian people in July and August each year to hold a grand sacrifice of Ovoo and Naadam activities, that is, sacrifices to the gods of the mountains, the gods of the road and recreational activities. Now this activity has evolved into the grasslands to celebrate the harvest, material exchanges and hold cultural and sports activities of all ethnic groups mass gatherings.

(2) The Korean People

The Korean people, both men and women, prefer to wear plain white clothing, showing their love of purity and simplicity. The women's national costume is a short, white, slanted bodice with hanging ribbons; the lower part is a skirt in several colors, including pink, light green, light blue and light purple, with a long skirt and a short skirt. Long skirt to the top of the foot, short skirt just above the knee, there are two kinds of tube skirt and wrap skirt. Men wear a short coat with a kanji, and fatter pants underneath, and then wear a long robe with a slanting lapel and buttons made of cloth bands when they go out.

The staple food of the Korean people is rice and millet, and they also love to eat rice cakes, cold noodles and miso soup. They are especially fond of eating dog meat and a kind of kimchi called "kyimchi," which is made of cabbage and radish, accompanied by garlic, chili and ginger, and pickled in brine, giving it a unique flavor.

There are many Korean festivals. In addition to the same as the Han Chinese Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Ching Ming Festival, etc., there are some unique festivals. Such as the old man 60 years old birthday called "back to A Festival"), the 60th anniversary of the wedding (you for "back to the wedding festival"), etc., are to invite friends and relatives, guests to celebrate. At the time of the festival, the Korean people, who are good at singing and dancing, beat the long drum, play the tube Xiao, and dance and sing to the accompaniment of the Gayeqin. They sing about festivals, harvests and the new life of their people.

(3) Tibetans

The most basic features of the traditional Tibetan costumes are fat waist, long sleeves, big lapels, right overlapping, long skirts, long boots, plaited hair, and exaggerated gold, silver, beads and jade ornaments. Thick and heavy insulation, wide and warm fat waist and long sleeves and long skirts, naturally adapted to the specific environment and climate of the Tibetan people's residence. Such as the Tibetan plateau herdsmen's serge robe chest left a prominent gap (like a bag), so that when you go out can be stored tsampa, tea and rice bowls, etc., when the day is hot or labor, according to the need to bare the right arm or both arms, will be the sleeve tied to the waist to regulate the temperature of the body, and then put on the need to wear; sleep at night, unbuckle the waistband, take off the double-sleeved, laying half covered with a half, a warm big sleeping bag, can be said to be a coat for multiple uses.

Most Tibetans eat three meals a day, but in the busy or labor intensity is greater when there are four meals, five meals, six meals a day. The vast majority of Tibetans to tsampa as the main food, that is, the barley fried and ground into fine powder. Especially in pastoral areas, in addition to tsampa, rarely eat other food products. When consuming tsampa, to mix with strong tea or milk tea, ghee, milk residue, sugar and so on together; tsampa is both easy to store and easy to carry, when consumed is also very convenient. In the Tibetan area, can be seen at any time with sheepskin tsampa pockets, hungry at any time can be eaten.

The Tibetans used to eat very few vegetables, beef and mutton as the main side dishes, followed by pork. Tibetans eat beef, mutton, pay attention to fresh, folk eat meat without chopsticks, but will be a large piece of meat into the plate, with a knife to cut food. Beef and mutton blood is added to crushed beef and mutton into the small intestines of cows and sheep made of blood sausage. Meat is mostly stored by air-drying method. Generally in the winter after the slaughter of beef, mutton a moment to eat, more cut into strips, hanging in the ventilation, so that it air-dried. Winter production of air-dried meat can be antiseptic, but also can make the blood in the meat of the frozen attached, can maintain the air-dried meat fresh color and flavor.

The most common is ghee extracted from cow and sheep's milk, in addition to ghee for meals, but also used in large quantities to make ghee tea. Yogurt, cheese, milk lumps and milk residue is also often made dairy products,

Tibetans generally like to drink barley made of barley wine. In festivals or days of celebration especially. Tibetan cooking and eating stoves are self-contained. In Tibetan areas, every family is equipped with ghee tea cones and milk tea pots. Tibetans in most areas use dried cow dung as fuel and iron tripods as stoves. Yunnan Tibetan tea set, wine set, cutlery like to use copper. Other areas of Tibetans prefer wooden bowls and painted red, yellow, orange paint. The more elaborate also in the bowl on the silver. Tibetan pastoral areas should be accompanied by a refined Tibetan knife, mainly used to cut food, but also for slaughtering sheep, skinning, peeling tent folio and other labor, the production of Tibetan knives have a long history, exquisite craftsmanship.

Typical food: the typical food of Tibetans in addition to tsampa, barley wine, ghee tea, there are many, for example: foot horse rice, traditional Tibetan feast food, with foot horse, rice, ghee and other cooked. Blood sausage, traditional Tibetan dishes, made of cow (sheep) blood as the main raw material. Cheese, traditional Tibetan cuisine, made from fermented cow and sheep milk.

Festivals

The Tibetans generally practice Tibetan Buddhism, or Lamaism. In the past, many traditional days were related to religious activities. Tibetan calendar for the yin and yang calendar, to "five elements" (refers to wood, fire, earth, gold, water) yin and yang with the twelve genera of the Department of the year, every 60 years a week, to the yin and fire rabbit year (dingmao) for the beginning of the year, the month of the big, small build, generally three years to set the intercalary; the Tibetan New Year's Day is the most important festival. The first month of the Tibetan calendar, the local people have to watch the custom of ghee lanterns. April 15 to commemorate the Buddha's birthday and Tang Wencheng Princess of Tibet's auspicious day, folk celebrations. Tibetan festivals and Saga Dawa Festival, Snowdon Festival, Lantern Festival and Wang Guo Festival.

Tibetan year Every year on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar. The Tibetan New Year usually begins in December of the Tibetan calendar to prepare and buy New Year's goods, and every family should use ghee to fry fruits. New Year's Eve cleaning, painted on the door with lime powder to symbolize eternity symbols, expressed congratulations on auspiciousness. Tibetans in Yunnan eat dough (similar to dumplings) for dinner on New Year's Eve, with stones, chili peppers, charcoal, and wool wrapped in the dough, each of which has a different saying; for example, eating dough wrapped in stones indicates that he has a hard heart in the new year; while those who eat dough wrapped in wool indicate that he has a soft heart. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, religious puja activities are held in most Tibetan areas.

"Snowdon Festival" every year on the first day of the seventh month of the Tibetan calendar, the original meaning of the "yogurt feast", when families have to make a lot of yogurt to eat, and later added the content of Tibetan opera. Xuedong Festival many people have to carry ghee tube, teapot, thermos flask, bring food to the beautiful scenery of the place to drink tea and wine.

"Wang Guo Festival" in the annual fall harvest before the Wang Guo Festival to feast each other and a variety of picnic activities to meet the fall harvest. There are also traditional festivals such as the "Bath Festival" and the "Winter Festival".