Introduce a traditional festival of ethnic minorities

Introduce a traditional festival of ethnic minorities: Mongolian Spring Festival.

Mongolian New Year's Day is also called "White Festival" or "Bai Yue", which is closely related to the whiteness of milk, and "White" means "Kaiyuan" in Mongolian mind. There are different legends about Mongolian New Year. According to historical records, since the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolians have accepted the calendar of the Han nationality. Therefore, Bai Yue of Mongolia coincides with the first month of the Spring Festival of Han nationality.

This is the origin of Mongolian "Spring Festival". Although the Mongolian New Year coincides with the Spring Festival of the Han nationality, it absorbs some customs of the Han nationality, such as eating jiaozi and setting off firecrackers in the fifth watch, but it also retains many traditional customs of the Mongolian nationality. In agricultural and pastoral areas, Mongolians usually eat hand-grabbed meat and light bonfires on New Year's Eve to show family reunion, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

In the early morning of the first day, the younger generation saluted their elders with "welcome wine", and relatives and friends offered Hada to each other to congratulate them on the auspicious New Year. Throughout Bai Yue (in the first month), herders dressed in festive costumes can often be seen on the grassland, accompanied by horseshoes or cars and motorcycles, with wine songs, visiting relatives and friends together.

Introduction to Mongolian

It is a traditional nomadic people mainly distributed in East Asia, one of the ethnic minorities in China, and the main ethnic group in Mongolia. In addition, Mongolians are also distributed in Russia and other Asian and European countries, and Ewenki and Tu are sometimes considered as branches of Mongolians.