Essay on how to celebrate the New Year in Inner Mongolia

Folk customs of Oroqen

The Spring Festival is the grandest festival of the Oroqen people, held on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, usually four to five days, mainly popular in Inner Mongolia Autonomous

Area and the northeastern Oroqen region.

The Spring Festival of Oroqen originated from Han customs. Before the festival, people are busy shopping for New Year's goods and cleaning the courtyard; people who go to the mountains to hunt or work outside are

to rush back home to prepare for the New Year. On New Year's Eve, families worship their ancestors and the Big Dipper, have a reunion dinner and keep vigil.

Early in the morning on the first day of the year, people are busy cooking freshly wrapped "Xenawin" (dumplings) and firing firecrackers or shots into the sky to signal the arrival of the new year. The whole family

goes out of the house, facing east or south, and burns nine joss sticks, bowing down to worship the gods of the sky and the mountains, praying that the gods will grant them prey and bless the family with freedom from disaster and

good fortune.

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Cuisine of Inner Mongolia

Roasted leg of mutton is a famous dish for entertaining guests. Roasted leg of lamb evolved from roasted whole sheep. According to legend, the hunting and nomadic peoples living in the vast land of northern China

used to roast the whole prey and whole sheep to eat by the campfire. People gradually realized that the most delicious part of the whole sheep was the back

leg, so they often cut off the back leg and roasted it. Individually baked sheep's hind legs not only faster than baking the whole sheep, and more flavorful, easy to eat,

roasted sheep legs gradually replaced the roasted whole sheep. After a long period of development, in the leg of lamb baking process gradually increased a variety of ingredients and seasonings, so that its

shape, color, taste, freshness in one, color, meat, outside the burnt, tender, dry crisp not greasy, was praised as "the eye did not see the thing, the smell has been pounced

nose".