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What do Mongolians eat? What do they drink? Live what?

Mongolian diet:

1, pastoral cattle, mutton and milk-based diet, supplemented by grain, vegetables. Milk products are milk tofu, milk lumps, dried milk, cheese, cream, yogurt and so on. Eat fried rice in the morning and drink milk tea, tea with ghee and a little green salt, delicious flavor. At noon and night more like to eat beef, mutton. Brick tea is an indispensable necessity for herdsmen, after cooking less fresh milk. Herdsmen burn rice, cooking tea is the main fuel cow dung, the flame is just right.

2, rural grain-based, dairy food as a supplement. Now, the economic development, people's diet structure has improved a lot, in addition to meat, all over the winter and summer can eat fresh vegetables.

Mongolian residence:

1, round yurt is the traditional Mongolian herders living tools, with easy to carry, easy to dismantle, resistance to wind and cold and other characteristics, suitable for nomadic life. General yurt seven, eight feet high, more than ten feet in diameter, with a round wall "Ha Na" and umbrella-shaped roof frame "Wuni" composition. Around and on top of the thick felt, with woolen rope from all sides of the binding up. In the center of the roof, there is a patio for ventilation and sunlight.

2, part of the pastoral areas and semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas use the yurts of the earth and wood structure, the shape of the yurts and the felt yurts are generally the same. Some in the sunny place with windows, inside the kang, in the Yimeng (Ordos City) area called "Dugui", meaning round.

3, there are also a few Han-style brick houses, mostly princely mansions and living Buddha, lamas, officials' homes.

Expanded information:

Mongolian other customs:

1, the Mongolian people are a very warm, hospitable, straightforward ethnic groups, the vast steppe there is no inn, but every yurt in the master will happily entertain those who have never known guests. Unknown guests, they bring out the milk tea, pouring milk wine, boiled mutton, or song to persuade the wine, or offer hatha, warm hospitality. The whole family of men, women and children sat down around the guests and asked questions, just like their own family.

2, after the founding of new China, they strictly monogamous, young men and women are free to love, independent choice of spouse, the vast majority of parents accept and agree with their children's choices, parents go to the woman's home to "get consent" is only a necessary procedure.

Reference:

China.gov.cn-Mongolian