What are the traditional festivals of Mongolia What are the traditional festivals of Mongolia?

The traditional festivals of the Mongols include the Mongolian Spring Festival, Naadam Conference, Horse Milk Festival, Ovoot Festival, Ancestor Festival, Lantern Burning Festival and so on. The Mongols are a traditional nomadic people mainly distributed in East Asia, one of the ethnic minorities in China, and also the main ethnic group of Mongolia. In addition, the Mongols are also found in Russia and other Asian and European countries, and the Ewenki and the Turks are sometimes regarded as branches of the Mongols. The Mongols originated from the eastern bank of the Wangjian River in ancient times.

Mongolian Spring Festival is the same time as the traditional Spring Festival, and on New Year's Eve, they usually eat hand-steamed meat and light bonfires to show that they are reunited with their families and welcome the new year. The Naadam Conference is held in July and August every year when the livestock are fat and strong to show the joy of the harvest. Horse Milk Festival to praise the horses and drink horse milk wine, usually held in the second half of the eighth lunar month. Ancestor Festival is held on the 20th day of the 6th lunar month every year to commemorate Genghis Khan, the ancestor of the Mongols. The Lantern Festival is held on the 25th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar every year, when the night falls, every household lights ghee lamps to celebrate.

The early social economy of the Mongolian people was mainly hunting and nomadic herding, until the 13th century, the Mongolian people still had the custom of "hunting". For a long period of time, animal husbandry was the main social and economic sector of the Mongols. It was not until the 16th century that the Mongolian people developed a mixed farming economy of animal husbandry and agriculture on the plains on both sides of the rivers, where there were conditions for cultivation. By the beginning of the 20th century, the regional economy of the Mongols everywhere could be divided into livestock areas, agricultural areas, and semi-livestock and semi-agricultural areas.

Influenced by the Han culture in the central plains, the Mongols also worshiped dragons, and some tribes had tree totem worship, yak totem worship, and so on. A variety of totem myths reflect the Mongolian national characteristics and with the northern peoples, especially the Altaic language family of peoples myths of many **** common place, reflecting the close links between them intermingled.