What is the meaning of white tent in Mongolia

The white tent is the equivalent of a Tibetan girl's boudoir or embroidery building.

There is a Tibetan tradition that when a girl reaches the age of fourteen or fifteen, she will set up a white tent outside, which is specially built to wait for the man of her choice.

The yurt is a rounded pointed roof, the top and around one to two layers of thick felt cover. Ordinary yurt, the top is 10-15 feet high, the wall is about 50 feet high or so, and the door of the bag opens towards the south or southeast. Inside the yurt, there are four main structures: the hana (i.e. yurt wall bracket), skylight (Mongolian word for "set of brains"), rafters, and the door.

Objects furnishings

The basis of furnishings in the yurt, mainly inherited from the old ancestors worship incense, God and Buddha's legend, but also with the different division of labor between men and women. In addition, the fixed rules formed by this kind of furnishings can remain unchanged, but also lies in the shape of the yurt has not changed for thousands of years.

The space of yurt is divided into three circles, and the arrangement of things is divided into eight seats. Not only is there a place to put things in all eight directions, there is also a place to arrange incense (stove fire) in the center, so it can be said that there are nine seats. But the south side has a door, can not put things, if you do not count the number of seats, or eight seats.