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Mongolians use the summer calendar, and the most important festivals are New Year and New Year.

Off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month; Also known as "Nianhuo", a superstitious legend says that this day will send Vulcan to heaven, because Vulcan brings happiness and wealth to people, so Mongolians respect fire very much. Use fire carefully at ordinary times, don't let children play with fire, jump over the fire at will, sacrifice fire before going out for a long trip, and put some new firewood in the stove when going out and going home to show their piety to the fire. On the day of off-year, the whole family respectfully presented the "Kitchen God" with the wishbone, hada, incense sticks, milk food and so on. Eating barbecued pork with lamb breast, drinking and entertaining with the whole family, and eating "kitchen sacrifice" meals day and night for seven days.

New Year's Day (Spring Festival) is the most grand program. From New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month, men, women and children are immersed in the joy of the festival. Ordos Mongolians call the first month "Chagansari". Chagan is white and sari is the moon. They believe that white is the mother of all things, symbolizing purity and auspiciousness. This custom is widely spread on the grassland. According to Kyle Polo's Travels, "Mongolians, according to ancient customs, sweat and all Mongolian subjects on New Year's Day. On the first day of the first month, they all wear white clothes; Everyone wears white robes, and people give each other white things. White is a good gift, and white is an auspicious blessing. Therefore, the first month of the year is called "Bai Yue". On the New Year's Day of "Baiyue", Mongolian ministries in the Yuan Dynasty presented "Jiujiu" white camel to Mongolian Khan in succession, and neighboring countries also presented "Jiujiu" white elephant. Kyle Poirot wrote: "There are more than100000 white horses in several places in Japan, but there are 5000 elephants in Japan, wearing beautiful brocade and carrying two beautiful boxes on their backs. Among them, there are all the gold and silver utensils and armor used by the imperial court, as well as countless camels covered with brocade, full of daily necessities, all lined up in front of Khan, which is the most beautiful spectacle in the world. "

On New Year's Eve, a book fire was lit in the southeast of Manihong, and all kinds of food were taken and thrown into the fire to pay homage. Then, the family get together to eat sheep's head. Before eating, the elders at home should first uncover the sheep's mouth. According to superstition and legend, this ceremony probably has two purposes. One is to avoid the contradiction of tongue tip for a year, and the other is to open the teeth to ward off evil spirits. Because there is no god to preside over the world on the 30th, ghosts have to raise food for a year everywhere, and the sheep's mouth is wide open, which can scare away hungry ghosts. At midnight, the whole family sits around and eats jiaozi, which is called "Farewell". Those who go out (except married men and married women) will also be called by their parents for a bowl of chopsticks and a New Year's Eve dinner.

At the beginning of the new year, at dawn in the east, every household lights lanterns on the seat of Mani red pole (tied with 36/kloc-0 cotton-wrapped bamboo pole and lit with oil), and then sacrifices to heaven, earth, fire and ancestors respectively. After the memorial ceremony, it was time to have tea in the early years. At this time, the whole family should play some yogurt with their fingers for good luck. Old people sit in danger, children should bow down and pay tribute to Hada, and elders should also bless them one by one. Later, the whole family (except this couple) exchanged snuff bottles to express New Year greetings.

During the Spring Festival, young men and women rode horses one after another (in the old society, they didn't go out on the second, fifth and seventh days of the first month), brought Hada, snuff bottles and wine, and went to groups of three and five to pay New Year greetings to their relatives and friends one by one. The grassland is full of wine and meat, singing and dancing, and there is a strong festive atmosphere everywhere.