Birthday Customs of Inner Mongolians

Birthday ceremonies are warm and peaceful. The child is carried by the parents to every participant to bow and salute, the participants also have gifts. In addition, there are two other important elements:

One is the "catching of the year". Inside a plate, there are food, clothes, books and pens. If the boy, to put into the small-shaped bronze Buddha, bronze bow, brass arrows, fire scythe, Mongolian knife, horse whip and so on. If it is a girl, then put needle and thread, gold, silver, jade, bracelets and so on. The child caught the thing, is his future favorite or best.

The second, "playing tripwire". In eastern Inner Mongolia, there is a custom of "hitting the trip wire", that is, using a single cotton thread to trip the child's legs, and then broken with a hat.

Happy birthday

The Mongolian people have a custom of respecting the elderly. Its proverb says: "Honor the virtuous and love the aged."" The experience of the elderly educates people, and the light of the sun warms them." Mongolian people's birthday rites and the celebration of the current year are held when they are old. Generally the birthday is celebrated at sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety. Over this year

Thirteen, twenty-five, thirty-seven, forty-nine is also less lively, over this year's generally do not celebrate life.

The birthday celebration and the date of the current year are usually in the first month. Some people also set another auspicious date. Guests are pouring wine for the elderly, offering hatha, offering gifts. Birthday gift is more expensive, mainly horses, cows, sheep or sheep Ucha, (sheep soft rib spine meat) and leather, cotton, folder a variety of robes and boots and so on. Birthday banquets are grand, warm, to frequent pouring of wine, frequent toasts, wishing the elderly happiness, longevity.

The birthday celebration is over, the birthday celebrant can not return empty-handed, the host family to return the towel, purse or give the child food, pocket money and so on.

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Mongolian blue hada not only symbolizes the purity and sacredness, freshness and eternity of the dome of the nature and power, but also means simplicity and goodness, good luck and other The colorful emotional symbolism. The same hata on different occasions, reflecting different emotional value. In the past, all adult men and women have to carry Hadar, ready to use at any time, guests, meet, birthday wishes, wedding banquets, sacrifices, gifts and many other life scenes are inseparable from the Hadar. The blue khata, which signifies good luck and good fortune, is prized as "the first of the rituals"

The whole sheep and cattle, also known as the whole sheep and cattle, are the traditional rituals of Mongolian hospitality for honored guests. The grandest of all, there are three kinds of whole cow, pearl horse, whole sheep, mainly to take the meaning of its integrity, complete. Ritual offerings whole cow, in addition to sacrificial offerings, generally only take a part of the cow, for example, for the elderly over 65 years old to celebrate his birthday, only symbolic offerings of cattle Ucha (Mongolian called Ugucha, that is, cattle and sheep soft rib spine meat). Juma, which is also divided into vertical Juma, or the most elaborate whole sheep, is characterized by fading, skinning and roasting. Whole sheep seat is not as refined as the bead horse, which is characterized by the skin, boiled. Ceremonial offerings of whole sheep are also like offerings of whole cattle, and are done in different ways according to different needs and objects. Sometimes offer a complete lamb, sometimes offer a certain part of the sheep.