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What is the yurt like?

The long-term nomadic life has made Mongolian herders choose the most suitable shelter - yurt. The yurt is wide and comfortable inside, and is made of special wood as "hana" (fence support of the yurt), surrounded by two to three layers of wool felt, and then tied with horsehair or camel's hair twisted into a rope, and the top of the yurt is made of "uunai" as a support and covered with "bulehs" to present a canopy. The top is supported by the "Unai" and covered with "boules" to give it the shape of a canopy. Its round spire with a skylight "Tao brain", covered with a quadrilateral block of wool felt "Uri Ho", ventilation, light, easy to set up, but also easy to dismantle and move, suitable for rotating herd to go to the field to live. The package door opens towards the south, the package is directly north of the center is the position of the elders or VIPs, the west is the position of the guests, the east is the family seated and cooking place, the southeast is the stove. Nowadays, most herdsmen have two yurts, one to people, one for storage or cooking and tea making milk food. With the development of production and the progress of herders' living standard, nowadays many herdsmen have moved into brick houses and realized settled nomadic herding. Mongolian farmers and herders in the agricultural and semi-agricultural areas have been generally living in brick and wood structure of the premises.

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