It is better to go without food for three days than to go without tea for one day. Why do Inner Mongolians like to drink milk tea so much?

1. Customs and Habits

When we traveled to the Mongolian grasslands, the monks popularly said that you can't live without food for three days and you can't live without tea for one day. Mongolians love tea so much. , is also formed based on local customs and habits, because Mongolians have to herd sheep far away from home. Their grazing method has a long history, so they must drink milk tea at home first, which can make the body It has the effect of keeping out the cold.

2. Milk tea

The method of making milk tea is very complicated, so the local herdsmen carefully brew the milk tea they like to drink, so drinking milk tea every day is from Inner Mongolia. What the herdsmen have to do every day is to drink a cup of milk tea, which is full of milk. This is the real beginning of the day. Without milk tea, they feel that they have no energy throughout the day, so drinking milk tea has become a necessary habit for them every day.

3. Hospitality

We know that Mongolians are particularly hospitable. When entering a yurt, visitors must be served a bowl of fragrant milk tea, so that they can also be the host. Their warm hospitality method is not only to let the guests drink a cup of hot milk tea, but also to greet the guests with their own food. Their food is particularly rich. As long as we enter their yurt, we will be greeted by Such warm hospitality.

Mongolian people’s preference for drinking milk tea has something to do with the local environment. Winter is a particularly cold summer on the Mongolian Plateau, and there are not many trees to provide shade, so they are particularly happy to drink milk tea in winter. It is to keep out the cold. Drinking milk tea in summer can relieve heat and quench thirst, so milk tea has become a must-have drink for them all year round. Milk tea not only has this effect but also promotes digestion.