Information about the Mongolian people

The Mongolian people are one of the major ethnic groups in East Asia and Central Asia. They mainly live in the People's Republic of China, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Mongolia. The global Mongolian population is approximately 10 million, of which 6 million live in mainland China, and the rest are distributed in Mongolia and Russia.

The Mongols in mainland China mainly live in Inner Mongolia and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and are also distributed in large numbers in the three northeastern provinces. In Russia, they mainly live in Buryatia and Kalmykia. ?

After the end of the 19th century, due to the introduction of the word "nation", "Mongolian" replaced "Mongolian" as the official name of this ethnic group. The Mongolian language spoken by the Mongolian people belongs to the Altaic language family. The ancestors of modern Mongols are called primitive Mongols.

The yurt is the traditional housing of the Mongolian people. The traditional means of transportation of the Mongolian people mainly include draft animals and vehicles. The draft animals are mainly horses and camels, and the vehicles are Lele carts. The Mongolian diet consists of grain, milk, and meat. Mongolians do not eat green beef.

The largest traditional festive mass gathering of the Mongolian people is "Nadam", which means entertainment and entertainment in Mongolian and originated in the early 13th century. Mongolian traditional festivals include the Mare Milk Festival, the Naadam Conference and the New Year (also known as the White Moon).

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From the beginning of the 13th century, the Mongolian people began to create Mongolian characters based on the characters of the Uighurs, Tubo and other ethnic groups. Since then, various forms of historical and literary works have been published, some of which have been passed down to this day.

Among them, the most famous historical works are "The Secret History of Mongolia", "The Golden History of Mongolia" and "The Origin of Mongolia", which are known as the three major historical masterpieces of the Mongolian people. The morinouqin is the most distinctive traditional musical instrument of the Mongolian people. Traditional ethnic dances include Andai dance, cup and bowl dance, and chopstick dance.

Some Mongolian people in China still retain the characteristics of traditional culture. During traditional festivals, Mongolian people still like to wear national costumes, participate in sports competitions such as horse riding, archery, wrestling, etc., play Mongolian chess, and perform Moran fiddle, traditional folk dance, serving guests with milk tea, milk residue, fried rice, hand-held mutton, etc.

Even in modern urban life, Mongolians pay great attention to integrating modernization with national characteristics. For example, the new Mongolian robes popular among girls in northern cities not only retain the simplicity of traditional Mongolian robes, but are also filled with modern and gorgeous atmosphere. The yurt-shaped decorations and large-scale painted galloping horses and galloping horse sculptures on the urban public buildings in northern Xinjiang clearly express the style of grassland culture.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mongolian