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What are the Spring Festival customs in Inner Mongolia?
Wedding Customs in Inner Mongolia
Food culture in Inner Mongolia
What are the Spring Festival customs in Inner Mongolia?
In Inner Mongolia, the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is a small year, and this day is the "annual fire" day to send Vulcan. In addition to cleaning the environment, we should have family reunion, set off firecrackers, drink good wine and have a good meal, and offer sacrifices to beef, mutton, candy, cakes and milk in front of the shrine, burning incense and offering sacrifices to the kitchen god.
New Year's Day is also the Spring Festival. Mongolians take milk and eat it white without dirt, calling the Spring Festival "White Festival". On New Year's Eve, the younger generation will give their elders "farewell wine" and eat jiaozi around the fireplace. After dinner, we will play chess, play "Garaka" (sheep bones), and sing and play all night with the accompaniment of Ma Touqin. At dawn the next day, men, women and children put on brand-new national costumes, and the elders took the whole family to worship heaven and bowed to the southwest in front of the piled "Aobao".
Then, I began to pay New Year greetings. The younger generation kowtowed and toasted the elders and offered Hada, wishing the elderly a long and healthy life. From grade one to grade four, they generally don't travel far. After the fifth day, they rode horses, happily went to visit relatives and friends with gifts, and * * * entered the all-sheep banquet. During the festival, there are songs and laughter on the grassland, and people of all ethnic groups are immersed in the joy of the festival.
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Wedding Customs in Inner Mongolia
be engaged in
There are many gifts for engagement in Mongolia. If a Mongolian boy secretly loves a girl, he should ask the matchmaker to bring a white towel with items such as sugar, tea and glue to symbolize harmony, sweetness and exuberance before engagement. If the woman accepts, the marriage can proceed. Later, the man's parents and I will propose marriage with gifts such as Hada, milk wine and candy. It usually takes several times to get engaged.
After the woman accepts the wedding, the man will give her three glasses of wine. If the woman accepts and drinks three glasses of wine, the marriage is settled. Near the wedding day, the man will give the woman a gift, usually a whole sheep, wine, tea and hada. The woman warmly entertained the giver, and both sides raised their glasses, recited auspicious sentences and celebrated songs.
The groom was tested by breaking the sheep's neck. After arriving at the bride's home, the Mongolian groom and the wedding procession in Ordos are always warmly received by her family. Everyone eats, drinks, sings and dances together, which is very lively. At this time, the man's admirer will quietly leave the party and lead the groom to the bride's room.
After they sit down at the guest table, the escort will bring the groom a cooked sheep neck and ask him to break it in the middle to test his strength. In order to amuse the groom, the accompanying woman has skillfully inserted a wicker or iron bar into the bone marrow tube of the sheep's neck.
If he gets the groom's instructions in advance, he will see through the mystery, take out wicker or iron bar and break the sheep's neck easily. Some bridegrooms don't know the secret, so they make great efforts to make them sweat, like dogs biting turtles, anxious and ashamed. The escort took the opportunity to make fun of the groom in very mean but not malicious language. The groom's face was flushed with ridicule, and he hoped that there would suddenly be a hole under his feet to hide.
take a wife
One of the Mongolian wedding customs, marriage is usually the day before the wedding. In a happy atmosphere, the groom wore a gorgeous Mongolian robe, a ribbon tied around his waist, a dome red tassel hat, high boots and a bow and arrow. The best man and the admirer also put on holiday clothes. Ride horses together, carry floats, bring gifts, and go to the woman's house to get married.
When the bride arrives at the woman's house, she first walks around the yurt and presents a "touch the door sheep" and other gifts to the woman's house. Then, the groom and the best man hold Hada and wine and propose a toast to the bride's parents and distant relatives one by one. After the ceremony, the married people sat down for dinner. In the evening, we will arrange a five-pronged banquet for sheep and hold a traditional ceremony of asking for names and asking for Geng. The next morning, when the married people set off, the bride was carried on the float by her uncle or uncle. The groom will ride around the bride's float three times. Then, the bride-to-be and the bride-to-be leave together.
wedding
Mongolians attach great importance to weddings. Although different regions have different forms, they are all grand and lively. The general wedding custom in pastoral areas is: when the bride and groom get married and return to their in-laws' house, they do not get off the bus and horses, but first go around the yurt three times. Then, the bride and groom both went through two fires and were baptized by Vulcan. It means the purity of love and the prosperity of new life.
After the bride and groom enter the yurt, they first worship the Buddha and offer sacrifices to the stove, and then meet their parents and relatives. After the ceremony, comb the bride's hair. Get dressed, get dressed, and wait for the wedding reception to start. Wedding banquets are generally decorated with sheep backs or whole sheep mats, and all kinds of milk and sweets are available. At the wedding reception, the groom carries a silver pot and the bride carries a silver bowl, toasting the elders, relatives and friends one by one.
The boys held the silver cup high and drank to their heart's content; The girls sang loudly with Ma Touqin. Wedding banquets often last for two or three days before relatives and friends leave. And the woman's farewell will accompany the bride for one to three days. Sometimes, the bride's mother will see her off, and stay for more than ten days. When breaking up, the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, indicating that they were reluctant to part.
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Food culture in Inner Mongolia
The characteristics of Inner Mongolia cuisine are mainly reflected in the flavor of Mongolian cuisine. The Mongolian diet is relatively rough, with mutton, milk, wild vegetables and pasta as the main raw materials. The cooking method is relatively simple, and baking is the most famous. Dishes advocate fullness and authenticity, and pay attention to the original flavor of raw materials. The famous dishes in Inner Mongolia are: roast lamb leg, whole lamb mat, hand-grabbed mutton, milk dish, koumiss, naked wheat noodles, Zishan smoked chicken, dried meat, Hada cake, Mongolian pie, honey hemp leaves, Dexingyuan steamed dumplings and so on.
Mongolian traditional food is divided into white food and red food. White food is called Chaganyide in Mongolian, which is a dairy product of cattle, horses, sheep and camels. Red food is called Ulan Yide in Mongolian, that is, meat products of cattle, sheep and other livestock. Free food is a kind of food for Mongolian guests. According to Mongolian customs, white means purity, auspiciousness and loftiness, so free food is the highest courtesy for Mongolian guests. When visiting a Mongolian herder's home, the host will bring out various white foods such as milk skin, cheese, milk tea and milk wine for the guests to taste.
Among them, there is a kind of "Chagan Hulude" milk dessert, namely milk tofu or milk cake, which is a famous white food of Mongolians. Although it is made of milk tofu, sugar and butter, it is extremely exquisite, not only delicious, but also beautiful in appearance, just like a beautiful handicraft. Because the free food is made of milk, with sugar and other seasonings, it is not only delicious, but also nutritious. Some free foods have a certain therapeutic effect on diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Mongolians should use white food on holidays or when their children wear new clothes, and Mongolian yurts used for wedding ceremonies should also use white food to show their blessings. There are birthdays, birthdays, weddings, long-distance trips, and old people hold a blessing ceremony with snow-white milk for peace and smoothness.
Mongolian red food is varied. Mutton is the most popular food. There are many kinds of mutton, such as hand-grabbed meat, roasted mutton, stewed mutton, whole sheep summer sleeping mat and so on. When Mongolians celebrate China New Year or entertain tourists, eating mutton is a fashion. The so-called hand-grabbed mutton is the mutton that is eaten by hand. When cooking this kind of mutton, you don't need to add salt or seasoning to keep the original flavor. At the same time, you should pay attention to the cooking temperature. Usually the noodles are familiar, so the mutton is tender, smooth and delicious. All-sheep banquet is a banquet specially designed for VIPs, named after it is made of whole sheep.
Usually cooked whole with big-tailed sheep. It's interesting to eat whole lamb mats. The master first cut the sheep's scalp into small pieces with a Mongolian knife, gave it to the elders on the mat, then removed the sheep's head, cut off the sheep's back completely, cut a knife on the sheep's spine, then cut off the meat on both sides, and handed it to the guests one by one, and then invited them to eat casually with a Mongolian knife. Dip in salt water or seasoning when eating.
In addition, Mongolian people have a traditional food in their daily life-fried rice. Fried rice is made of small rice steamed and fried, golden yellow, soaked in milk tea or yogurt. Herdsmen eat three meals a day, drink yogurt, milk tea, steamed bread or fried rice in the morning. At lunch, people who eat grass outside eat steamed bread, and eating at home is also very simple. Dinner is rich and varied, and the family eats meat and vegetables together. The staple food is millet porridge, noodles, shortcakes and steamed buns.
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