Characteristics of Inner Mongolian clothing, food, and residential areas

I. Inner Mongolian dress:

It is roughly divided into four parts: jewelry, robes, belts and boots. Women's heads are decorated with agate, pearls, precious stones, gold and silver. Men mostly wear sheepskin hats with pointed tops and big ears in winter and forward hats or bowler hats in summer. Mongolian men, women and children like to wear robes, wearing robes when the belt is necessary, the tip of the boots slightly upward.

Two, diet:

1, the traditional diet of the Mongolians is more rugged, with mutton, milk, wild vegetables and pasta as the main raw material. Cooking methods are relatively simple, with baking being the most famous. They advocate the richness of the real, focusing on the original flavor of the raw materials. Specialties include roasted leg of lamb, whole sheep, hand-held mutton, cheese, horse milk wine, oat noodles, Zishan smoked chicken, dried meat, Hada cake, Mongolian pies, honey hemp leaves, Dexingyuan siu mai and so on.

2, the traditional food is divided into two kinds of white food and red food. White food is called Chagan Yid in Mongolian, and it is the milk products of cows, horses, sheep and camels. Red food is called Ulaanid in Mongolian, which is the meat products of cattle, sheep and other livestock. White food is the Mongolian food for honoring guests. According to Mongolian custom, white color indicates purity, auspiciousness and sublimity, so white food is the highest courtesy for Mongolian people to treat guests.

3, Mongolian toast: Mongolian pouring wine to honor the guest exquisite, wine is the best expression of loyalty to the friends of the precious food. The host will pour the wine in the silver bowl or gold cups, on the haida, sing a toast, expressing their sincerity and feelings, the guests should then take the wine, can drink it, can not drink is tasted a little, and then return the wine to the host, can not be pushed, thank the host of the toast.

Three, residential

1, for thousands of years, the Mongolian people have lived a nomadic life "by the water and grass and migration". Most of China's grasslands have left the footprints of Mongolian herders, and therefore known as the "pride of the grasslands".

2, "yurt" is the Manchu name for Mongolian herders housing. "package", Manchu is "home", "house" means. In ancient times, the yurt was called "dome", "felt tent" or "felt room" and so on. Yurt is round, there are large and small, large, can be more than 20 people rest; small, can also accommodate more than 10 people.

(1) the yurt is very simple to set up, usually 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 "hana" (with 2.5 meters long willow cross-braided and become) set up, and then set up on the top of the "urni" (about 3.5 meters long). The "Uni" (a 3.2 meter long wicker stick) is then set up on top. 2-meter-long willow sticks), the "Hana" and "Uni" will be joined together in a circle and kidnapped, and then put on the felt, tied with a woolen rope, and then it is completed.

(2) It takes only two camels or a two-wheeled oxcart to transport a yurt, and two or three hours to build it. The yurt looks small in appearance, but the area used 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 frequent transhumance herders to live and use.

Extended information:

1, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, commonly known as Inner Mongolia, referred to as "Mongolia". The capital city of Hohhot. Inner Mongolia across China's northeast, north China, northwest of the three regions, adjacent to eight provinces, is one of China's neighboring provinces more provincial administrative regions. The region is basically a plateau-type landscape area, the region due to the geographical location and topography, the formation of temperate continental monsoon climate is dominated by the complexity and diversity of the climate.?

2, Inner Mongolia is rich in resources, there is "East Forest and West Mining, South Agriculture and North Pastoralism", grasslands, forests and arable land per capita area of China's first, the world's largest reserves of rare earth metals, but also China's largest grasslands and pastoral areas.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Inner Mongolia