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Yurt structure and information should be short! The yurt is a Mongolian yurt, a kind of house where Mongolian herders live!

The yurt (Mongolianyurts) is a kind of house where Mongolian herders live. Construction and relocation are very convenient, suitable for pastoral production and nomadic life. Yurt is round, there are large and small, large, can accommodate more than 600 people; small can accommodate 20 people. It is easy to set up a yurt, which is usually built in the place where water and grass are suitable. According to the size of the yurt, a circle will be drawn first, and then the yurt can start to be built according to the size of the circle. The yurt looks small, but the area inside the yurt is very large, and the indoor air circulation, good lighting conditions, warm in winter and cool in summer, not afraid of the wind and rain, very suitable for the frequent transhumance and use of herding ethnic groups to live. Mongolia and other nomads traditional housing. Anciently known as the dome, also known as felt tents, tents, felt bags and so on. Mongolian language called ger, Manchu for yurt or Mongolia Bo. Nomadic people to adapt to the nomadic life and the creation of this residence, easy to dismantle, easy to nomadic. Since the Xiongnu era has appeared, has been used until now. Yurt was round, around the side walls into several pieces, each piece of 130 to 160 cm high, 230 cm long, with a strip of wood woven into a net, several pieces connected, surrounded by a round, long cover umbrella bone-shaped dome, and the side walls connected. The roof of the tent and the four walls were covered or surrounded by felt, fixed with ropes. A wooden frame is left on the southwestern wall to install the door board, and a round skylight is left on the roof of the tent to let in light, ventilation and smoke, and it is covered with felt at night or in rainy or snowy days. The smallest yurt is more than 300 centimeters in diameter, and the largest can accommodate hundreds of people. The tent of the Khan and the kings in the Mongol Khanate era could accommodate 2,000 people. There are two kinds of yurts: fixed and traveling. Semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral areas are mostly built in fixed style, surrounded by earth walls, covered with reeds and grasses; nomadic areas are mostly in mobile style. Traveling type is divided into detachable and non-detachable two kinds, the former to livestock transportation, the latter to oxcart or horse-drawn carriage. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Mongolian settlers increased, only in the nomadic areas are still retained yurts. In addition to the Mongols, Kazakhs, Tajiks and other nomadic herders also live in yurts. In the vast Mongolian plateau, the cold wind howling, the earth is dotted with many white tents. They are yurts, that is, the Mongolian people called "Gers". People have been using yurts since the beginning of the Mongolian race. It has been a long time. But no one knows exactly when they started to be used. Yurts became the daily residence of Mongolians. Most Mongolians are nomadic herders, searching for new pastures for their goats, sheep, yaks, horses and camels throughout the year. The yurts can be packed and carried by a couple of Bactrian camels to the next stopping point, where they can be re-tented.

The erection of the yurt is generally the first selected terrain, in the water and grass suitable place, according to the size of the package first draw a circle, and then along the drawn circle will be pre-prepared wooden bar square (Hanah) frame, the top of the package and then set up a fixed skylight (Oni) bracket, generally the top of the height of about 4m, the perimeter of the height of about 2m, most of the door to the east or southeast to open, the entire package of the exterior and the top of the lightweight salal is made from the Skeleton, the roof to Oni as the center, tied thin rafters (Unai), was movable umbrella cover type, fixed with camel rope tied, become a fixed round wall. Dome Tao Ao diameter of 1.5m, decorated with beautiful floral patterns. The shape of the top of the bag are conical, usually with one or two or even more layers of felt or canvas cover, and finally a rectangular piece of felt to cover the Tao Ao to overnight or prevent rain and snow. Hana and Unai are joined together in a circle and kidnapped, then the felt is put on and fastened with a woolen rope, and then it is finished. Two or three people can set up or take down a yurt in just an hour or two. For the interior arrangement, the interior of the yurt is flatly divided into nine directions. The center of the top circle is the fire place, where there is a stove for cooking and heating; the front of the fire place is the door of the bag, and the left side of the door is the place for saddle and milk pail, and the right side of the door is the place for table and cupboards. Fire around the five-five direction, along the wooden fence neatly placed painted with national characteristics of the pattern of the An analysis of wooden cabinets and wooden boxes. In front of the cabinet, thick blankets are laid, and the yurt looks very small in appearance, but the area inside the yurt is very large. And the indoor air circulation (in addition to the skylight, there is a layer of felt at the bottom of the wall, which can be lifted in summer to ventilate the room and put down in winter to keep warm), good lighting conditions, warm in winter and cool in summer, and not afraid of wind and rain. The semi-circular roof of the yurt, when the wind and snow come, the roof of the yurt does not accumulate snow, and the roof of the yurt does not store water when it rains heavily, and the rounded structure can also withstand the storm attack. The connection between each part of the yurt is exquisite, convenient, easy to build and dismantle, transportation is easy and not easy to damage.

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