Introduction to the ethnic customs of the Mongolian people:

The Mongolian food includes milk tea, milk tofu, cheese, milk fruit, etc.; drinks include milk tea, yogurt wine, etc. The Mongolians in pastoral areas mainly eat meat and milk, supplemented by grain. Eat three meals a day, focusing on breakfast and dinner. In the morning, they usually make fried rice with milk tea, and add a little milk skin, milk tofu, etc.; in the evening, they eat more mutton mixed with soup noodles, fresh milk noodle cakes or hand-grilled mutton. Drink milk tea before and after meals, as long as you want to drink it or if guests come, you can drink it all day long. Meat is mainly mutton and beef. Ways to eat mutton include "hand-grilled meat", roasted whole lamb, etc. This is a traditional Mongolian delicacy. Among them, the Mongolian "hand-grilled meat" is made from fat and tender small-mouthed mutton. It is boiled with water until it is about 70% cooked and can be eaten. You can eat it with your hands or pick it with a Mongolian knife. The meat is fresh and tender, delicious and easy to digest. It is a common treat for Mongolian herders to entertain guests. The Mongolian roasted whole sheep is one of the most exquisite dishes at the banquet. A whole sheep is roasted, brown-red, shiny and squeaking, with a fragrant aroma. The chef squats it down on the plate. It is carried to the banquet, and then cut into several pieces and slices for guests to eat. The color, aroma, taste and shape are all excellent, with strong national flavor and local characteristics.

Mongolian traditional sacrifice to Aobao, "Sacrifice to Aobao" is a traditional activity of Mongolian people to worship gods. The time is mostly from June to August every year. "Aobao" means "duizi" in Mongolian. It is a pile of stones with branches and willows inserted to guide pedestrians and mark the direction. The branches are covered with colorful cloth strips and paper flags. Traditional forms of sacrifice include: blood sacrifice, wine sacrifice, and fire sacrifice. When offering sacrifices to Aobao, cattle and sheep were killed as sacrifices. The modern Aobao Festival has added new content such as horse racing, wrestling, archery and other competitive events, as well as song and dance performances. The purpose of offering sacrifices to Aobao is to pray for good weather, peace in the four seasons, and prosperity. Mongolian young men and women express their love for each other during the activities and meet on a date to see each other again. This is where the "Aobao Meeting" comes from.

Prairie food culture is full of prairie flavor. When you sit at the cool wine table, fresh milk tea is served, and the fragrant hand-grilled mutton is served. The fresh aroma makes people salivate. When you get to the grassland, you eat mutton and drink strong white wine. After half the wine, your thoughts are like clouds swarming up and down the mountainside. The singing lighted up at the wine table, and the long-sounding Mongolian folk songs were as individual as the folk songs of the Loess Plateau. The windows of the grassland are open, and the breeze carries the smell of green grass into the hearts of tourists. People will miss Gada Meilin, the national hero, and get close to the hard-working and kind-hearted herdsmen, the vigorous grasslands, and the melodious sound of the matouqin.

The bonfire night in the prairie can make people relax. When the sky is filled with stars, the clear light of a crescent moon falls on the vast grassland, and the firelight rises, the mystery, depth and weight of the grassland are revealed. In the light of the fire, tourists from all over the world danced, including modern dance, Russian ballet, and Andai dance of the grassland people. This frank and rough Horqin grassland folk dance became softer again. Modern people have integrated the world's thoughts, culture and art.