Mongolian Funeral Customs

Before the founding of New China, Mongolian burials included cremation, earth burials and wild burials (also called sky burials). The western pastoral area is common wild burial. After a person's death, the body was put on a wooden wheelbarrow and pulled along until it fell off. The body is placed in the wilderness and eaten by wolves or wild eagles, and the soul of the deceased can ascend to heaven.

Seven days later, if the body of the deceased is still there, is considered inauspicious, must continue to ask the lama chanting ﹑ to the lama alms, pray for the deceased to eliminate disasters. Cremation is mainly the upper lamas, burial is mostly for the princes and nobles, as well as agricultural areas or semi-agricultural and pastoral areas of the Mongols.

After the founding of New China, the Mongolian wild burials disappeared and were completely replaced by earth burials and cremations, and the choice of their burials mainly depended on the habits of their own families.

Expanded

Mongolian customs:

1, before the founding of new China, the Mongolian region had a lot of backward marriage customs, such as polygamy, arranged marriages, marriage by the lama before reciting the scriptures or ask the gods for advice, the heavy bride-price, robbing the marriage, the collection of marriage practices and other customs.

After the founding of New China, they strictly monogamous, young men and women are free to love, independent choice of spouse, the vast majority of parents accept and agree with the child's choice, the parents went to the woman's home, "to obtain consent" is only a necessary procedure.

2, the horse-head qin is the Mongolian people's favorite national musical instrument, because the upper end of the qin pole carved a delicate horse head and named. The earliest horse-head qin called "Xiqin" or "Huqin", originated in the East Hu "Xi" (i.e., Kumo Xi), the end of the Qing Dynasty called the "Chaoer". It was called "Chaoer" at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The form of performance is mostly solo, or self-singing.

3, the Mongolian dance has long been famous, traditional dance saber dance, chopsticks, and generation, horse taming hand, small green horse and so on. Through the grassland life on the horse refined from the horse dance, modeling upright and bold, the pace of free and light.

China.gov.cn-Mongolia