The dialects of Hohhot are:

Jin, the local, Zhangjiakou-Hohhot slice dialect of the western region of Inner Mongolia, and the Jin-speaking Datong-Baotou slice dialect of the Huimin District, Tumet Left Banner, Toketo County, Helinger County, Qingshuihe County, and Wuchuan County.

Hohhot Putonghua, or Hupu for short, and Xincheng, which belongs to Beijing's official dialect, is Putonghua with a local accent.

Mongolian, Standard Mongolian, is a dialect of the Chahar dialect of Inner Mongolia, Zhenglanqi.

Hohhot, as the capital of Inner Mongolia, its dining features distinctive flavors, such as Mongolian milk food, Mongolian milk wine, Mongolian hand-meat, Mongolian pasta, etc., you can also go to the grassland atmosphere of the place to taste a taste of game, there are roe deer meat, chicken meat, mountain wild vegetables, wild mushrooms, millet, and other kinds of cereal, game. Here the most characteristic food in addition to dairy products, meat food meat is delicious and nutritious.

Hohhot's diet is basically based on the northern diet, food culture absorbed the Mongolian and Hui practices, eating style, very representative of the Mongolian food. Hui snacks are also very popular in the city, there are grilled lamb kebabs, siu mai, haggis and so on, absolutely let you have a full stomach, forget to come back.

The specialties of the Hohhot region include roasted whole lamb, shabu-shabu, hand-held lamb, roasted leg of lamb, fried lamb's tail, blood sausage, meat sausage, haggis, shumai (roasted wheat), baklava, oat noodle, horsemilk wine, milk tea, milk skins, milk tofu, cheese, oily incense, deep-fried noodle cakes, beef jerky and so on, and there are also the local specialties and the traditional flavors that are perfectly combined with the Toxian stewed fish, and the Hualin stewed lamb, etc., which is also famous in the Hohhot region.

Since Hohhot is also a destination for those traveling west, it has similarly absorbed some of the specialties of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and there are delicious knife-shaved noodles, noodles with buckwheat, picking fish roe, boiled fish, and so on in the vicinity of Dazhao.

The Inner Mongolia Grassland Tourism Festival is a traditional folk festival on the basis of the Naadam Conference, which integrates economic and trade negotiations, material exchanges, and athletic competitions, cultural and recreational activities, with motorcycle teams, camel teams, equestrian teams, wushu teams, andai dance, wrestling and other performances and programs, in addition to these there are also Ovoo rituals, Genghis Khan Mausoleum Rituals and other traditional rituals of Mongolia.

The Inner Mongolia Ulanmu Riding Arts Festival is held every two years in Hohhot, sometimes in conjunction with the Inner Mongolia Grassland Tourism Festival and the Inner Mongolia Naadam Conference (Mongolia Games Festival), and is one of the favorite festivals of the people of Inner Mongolia.

Zhaojun Cultural Festival originated from the folk temple fair of Zhaojun, the idea of organizing Zhaojun Cultural Festival began in 1998. The organization of Zhaojun Cultural Festival has become an important means to establish and display the local image, become the image card of the city, and promote the exchange and cooperation with domestic and foreign countries.

Specialties:

Cheese: Cheese is commonly known as "cheese egg", divided into two kinds of raw cheese and cooked cheese, is a kind of milk food very popular with Mongolian residents.

Hu Huur: Hu Huur is a snuff bottle. Herdsmen men often tie snuff bottles around the waist, it can clear nasal congestion, refreshing, but also a special "business card". Snuff bottles above the picture more from the Mongolian people's life, has a strong national flavor and characteristics.

Horse Milk Wine: Horse Milk Wine is a kind of drink with alcohol content of only 1.5 to 3 degrees made from fresh horse milk through fermentation and acidification, it is a traditional drink popular throughout the steppe area, which was first started in Qin and Han Dynasty, with sour and spicy flavor, and it has the effect of soothing the tendons, invigorating the blood, and strengthening the stomach, which is regarded as one of the "eight treasures of Mongolia".

Traditional Pi Xiang: Traditional Pi Xiang is the daily container of wine and milk for Mongolians. Leather wine pots are handmade from natural cowhide from the Inner Mongolia grassland. Technicians will polish or pelt the cowhide, and then after dozens of processing procedures, carved out a variety of patterns and a variety of shapes, is one of the daily necessities of the Mongolian herders.

Mongolian knife: Mongolia knife body is generally made of high-quality steel, the length of a dozen centimeters to dozens of centimeters ranging. Knife handle and sheath steel, silver, wood, horn system, bone system, etc., the surface of the exquisite pattern, some also fill burning enamel, inlaid with gemstones.

Hohhot culture is a typical combination of nomadic culture and farming culture, coupled with the influence of modern civilization, cultural and historical relics are all reflective of the unique simplicity, boldness, and atmosphere of the northern peoples. There are specialized Mongolian language schools, Ulaanbaatar for singing and dancing art performances, and more characteristic national costume performances and so on, which are very distinctive. The Mongolian typical musical instrument, the horse-head fiddle, plays a melodious music, accompanied by Mongolian singers' high-pitched, low-back songs, which makes people have a long aftertaste.