Customs in Erdos, Inner Mongolia

The main foods of Mongolian in Ordos are milk, meat and grain.

Milk food, made by Mongolian people in Ordos, can be divided into food and drink.

Foods include cream, cream eggs, milk tofu, milk skin and so on.

Drinks include milk tea, nest milk, yogurt and milk wine; Meat, Ordos Mongolians like to eat livestock meat, mainly cattle, camels and mutton, followed by pigs and chickens, and also eat wild animal meat.

Horse meat is considered the best meat.

Ordos only pays homage to the whole horse in Genghis Khan Mausoleum, and seldom eats it at ordinary times. Mares (mares) cannot be slaughtered.

Inner Mongolia people think that mutton and horse meat are warm, while beef, camel meat and goat meat are cold, so they generally eat more mutton in winter.

Eat beef and goat meat in summer and autumn.

There is a saying: "Mutton becomes poison in a hundred days, and beef becomes medicine in a hundred days.

"So mutton generally eats fresh meat, which is now slaughtered and eaten, while beef can be stored for later use; Grain, besides milk, meat and other staple foods, Mongolians in Inner Mongolia also eat grain. The general cereal is fried rice, and there are also pasta.

2. Hada

Hada is an essential item in the daily salute of Mongolian people in Ordos.

Hada is made of fine satin and silk cotton, and its colors are silver gray, white, yellow and blue. Hada varies in length and width, generally 1 ~ 2 meters, and the longest is more than 3.3 meters. This is a big hada for special occasions.

Offering Hada is a etiquette used by Mongolian people in Ordos to greet guests, give gifts, celebrate festivals and communicate in daily life.

When offering Hada, you should be solemn and generous, and sometimes you can sing all kinds of auspicious greetings and hymns to enhance the atmosphere of respect.

The way to present Hada is to put Hada's folded mouth towards the recipient and respectfully open his hands and hand it over.

Under normal circumstances, the person who receives Hada should turn the folded mouth of Hada over and return it to the owner.

3. Language

(1) Mongolian

The official languages of Ordos are Mandarin Chinese and Mongolian Ordos dialect, which are used in formal occasions.

There are about 15% Mongolians in Erdos, most of whom use Mongolian, with a large proportion in pastoral areas. The Mongolian dialect in Ordos is the Ordos dialect of Inner Mongolia dialect.

Compared with other Mongolian dialects, it is characterized by φ vowels and masculine vowels. Phonetically, it is manifested in polyphony, pre-vowel and employment consonant, stress, etc. Grammatically, it is manifested in the category of noun case and some morphological changes in animal feeding; In terms of vocabulary, it is manifested in the composition of dialect words and the changes of some lexical meanings.

(2) Chinese

The language used by the Han people in Erdos is Jin dialect, which belongs to Erdos dialect.

Ordos Chinese dialect belongs to Jin dialect, which belongs to Inner Mongolia Jin dialect, and has deep roots with Shanxi northern Jin dialect, Shaanxi northern Jin dialect and Hebei western Jin dialect.

Ordos Chinese dialect is roughly divided into three small pieces, which are similar as a whole.

Zhungeer Banner, Dalat Banner and Hangjinqi along the river (along the south bank of the Yellow River) are all saying "Tan dialect"; Liangwai dialect is spoken in Liangwai area of the above three banners, the northern part of Otok Banner and Dongsheng District, most of kangbashi district and most of Yijinhuoluo Banner. A few neighboring flag areas, such as the south of Otog Banner, the front of Otog Banner and Wushen Banner, pass the "Western dialect".

There are abundant dynamic auxiliary words in Ordos dialect, and the frequent use of "ge" and "LAN" is its greatest feature.

This not only enables Ordos dialect to accurately express the time period referred by the speaker, but also makes the daily communication language more vivid and friendly, which is in line with the simple and generous character of the people in Ordos, a region where Mongolian and Chinese cultures are intertwined.

Extended data

Ordos native products:

1, milk tofu

Boil the yogurt and leave it 1 day. Put it in a coarse cloth bag and control it.

Control it for a while, then pour it on the board, press the yellow water with stones, and make concentrated milk food.

Put this milk food on the straw mat, and then put it on a high place to dry, which is milk tofu.

Some hold it in their hands and squeeze it hard. The milk powder flowing down the fingers is called Asahi hemp, and the one pressed out with a wooden mold is called cooked mule. Milk tofu can be sour and sweet, sweet with sugar, and sour without sugar.

2. Milk tea

Fresh milk is cooked and mixed with boiled brick tea water to make milk tea.

Mongolian people all over Ordos like to drink milk tea, and twice in three meals a day is dietary milk tea.

Step 3: yogurt

Put fresh milk in a wooden bucket or jar, add mushy seeds, and ferment at 25 ~ 30℃ for two to three days to get a delicious yogurt drink.

Yogurt after cream extraction is still drinkable.

4. Milk wine

Pour yogurt into the pot and cover it with a round curtain covered with wicker. There is a round hole in the middle of the curtain for placing the pan. After the yogurt is boiled, put the pot on the round hole and hang a bottle under the pot.

There is cold water in the pot. When yogurt steam meets cold water, it turns into water drops and flows into the bottle, which is mellow milk wine.

The quality of milk wine in the first pot and the second pot is the best, but the quality of milk wine is poor after changing water many times.

5. cashmere

In Ordos Plateau, there is a kind of goat with both wool and meat & Alba White Goat, which is called Alba White Goat for short because it grows in Alba Sumu, Otog Banner.

White goat is listed as one of the 20 excellent breeds in China.

Because Abai goat has 22 ~ 28 cm long coarse hair on its body surface, it has a good protective effect on the down of native sheep, so it has high net wool rate, large carding amount, good luster and soft hand feel.

Abai cashmere is the best cashmere with good luster, white and soft, long fiber and high pure cashmere rate.

China is the largest cashmere producer in the world, with an annual output of 8000 ~ 1 10,000 tons, accounting for 3/4 of the world's total output. Among them, Inner Mongolia produces 5342 tons of cashmere, accounting for 1/2 of the total cashmere production in China, and its quality ranks first in the country.