What are the traditional Mongolian festivals?

"Nadam" conference is a traditional festival with a long history in Mongolia, which occupies an important position in the material life of the Mongolian people. This is a cultural and entertainment conference held by people to celebrate the bumper harvest. "Nadam" means entertainment or games in Mongolian, so there are thrilling horse racing, wrestling, admirable archery, competitive chess, fascinating songs and dances and so on.

2. Horse Milk Festival

The mare's milk festival is mainly about drinking mare's milk, which is popular in Xilin Gol League in Inner Mongolia and some pastoral areas in Ordos. It is usually held in the late August of the lunar calendar and lasts for one day. In order to celebrate the bumper harvest and bless each other, besides preparing enough kumiss, we also treat guests with "hand-grilled meat", hold horse racing activities, invite folk singers to sing greetings, and present gifts to the elderly of Mongolian medicine.

3. Spring Festival

Ancient Mongolians called the Lunar New Year "Happy Engel", that is, the New Year, or "White Festival" or "Bai Yue", which was closely related to the whiteness of milk. On New Year's Eve, a small altar will be set up in front of the Buddha, with large pieces of cooked mutton for dairy products and fruits made of flour. On New Year's Eve, an ancestor worship ceremony will be held. In the past, ancestor worship ceremonies were held, and iron-clad activities were also held. Some also invited Mongolian folk artists to rap "Wuligeer" (Mongolian version), young people got together to sing and dance, and girls who didn't participate in singing and dancing got together to play "Shaha".

4. Lantern Festival

Every year on the 25th day of the Lunar New Year 10, as night falls, every household lights butter lamps to celebrate. However, nowadays, the Lantern Festival is not bright for more than one day, and it is replaced by various forms of entertainment. Mongolian traditional entertainment activities include horse racing, camel racing, wrestling, archery and shooting, tug-of-war, folk singers playing and singing, Ma Touqin playing "Jiangge" and folk dances.

5. Sacrifice Aobao

This is also an important festival activity. On this day, herders went to Aobao in droves to offer sacrifices. They put Buddha statues on Aobao, erected prayer flags, and offered sacrifices to cattle, mutton and milk together in front of Aobao. Then the lamas burned incense and lights, chanted prayers, and the masses turned around Aobao three times from left to right, hoping to usher in a bumper harvest year for animal husbandry.

Step 6 make a horse print

Ma Yin is usually held in Tomb-Sweeping Day or around the Dragon Boat Festival. In this festival, every time riders trap a fierce horse, a signer will mark the center of the horse's left hip bone. At that time, Mongolians will light bonfires on designated grasslands and choose shepherds who are highly respected, skilled in riding and branding, and familiar with horse nature for printing; Mongolian riders who took part in harness lined up in a row, and then someone presented Hada to them to express their blessings.