What should you pay attention to when traveling to Hohhot?

Precautions for traveling in Hohhot

1. The climate in Hohhot is dry, so please drink more water. If you are afraid of water and soil discomfort, you can fill the pot with hotel boiled water every day.

2. The food in Hohhot is mainly northern cuisine, with relatively strong taste.

3. You need to wear gloves and travel shoes when riding horses and camels.

4. It is advisable to carry light clothing. Inner Mongolia has a large temperature difference between morning and evening, especially in the grassland where the weather is cooler at night, so you need to prepare a long-sleeved jacket. In Inner Mongolia, the temperature difference is relatively large from May to September, so you can bring more clothes (wool sweaters are suitable).

5. The direct sunlight is stronger from June to September. You can bring some sunscreen, lip balm and women's skin care products, and drink more water.

6. Please prepare your own medicines to prevent colds, fever, diarrhea, motion sickness, and skin allergies for emergency use.

7. Bring a pocket bag, not too small, and carry valuables with you.

8. Prepare sunscreen and skin care products, sunglasses, photographic supplies, film, and batteries.

Inner Mongolia Customs

Inner Mongolia has many customs and taboos, so you must obey the arrangements.

Dedicate Hada: Hada is an indispensable item in Mongolian daily rituals. Offering hada is a etiquette used by Mongolian herdsmen to greet guests, show respect and blessing to guests, and use them in daily interactions. When offering hada, the host holds the hada with open hands, and the guests should stand up and face the person offering hada, and bow slightly forward to receive the hada. The person offering the hada hangs it around the neck of the guest, and the guests should put their hands together in front of their chests to express their gratitude to the person offering the hada.

Food: Inner Mongolia's food is mainly northern cuisine, with relatively strong taste. The restaurant will pay special attention to it. In addition, VIPs will taste the local flavor - hand-grilled mutton. If you are not used to mutton, there are other meals. Don’t worry, it will satisfy the tastes of many group members.

Being a guest: When taking a car to a herdsman’s house, you should check whether there are horses tied to the car near the yurt. Do not drive in rashly. When the car encounters a herd of animals on the road, avoid it as early as possible, otherwise the vehicle will suddenly startle the animals. To prevent the horse from being frightened and breaking its reins and running away, the livestock will lose fat by running too fast. If you encounter a herd of livestock on the grassland, cars and pedestrians should take a detour and do not pass through the herd. Otherwise, it will be considered disrespectful to the livestock owner. To enter the yurt, walk to the left of the stove and sit on the west and north sides of the yurt. The east side is the owner's living room, so try not to sit. When sitting, do not block the Buddha statue hanging on the Hana in the north.

After entering the bag, you can sit on the floor without taking off your shoes. Don't sit on the threshold. When visiting a herdsman's home, you should bring appropriate gifts, such as wine, sugar, snacks, etc. You can only scold a sheepdog that barks at you, but do not hit it. You should also eat some of the various dairy products brought by the host, otherwise the host will feel that he has not served you well. If you want to relieve yourself, you must go far to the south of the yurt, and do not go to the east, west (where there are sheepfolds), or the north side of the yurt (the smell will be blown into the yurt by the wind). Don't go to the north or west side of Bao in winter, because the snow there is turned into water for food. When leaving the host's house, you must say goodbye and thank you.

Serving tea: It is a traditional etiquette of the Mongolian people to offer tea to guests. When visiting a herdsman's home or at a tourist spot, the host or the waitress will first serve the guest a bowl of milk tea. Guests usually have to drink this bowl of tea. If they don't drink it, the host will feel rude. Guests should stand up slightly and use both hands or right hands to pick up the tea. Never use the left hand to pick up the tea. When the host or the waitress is pouring tea, if the guest does not want the tea, please gently touch the spoon or spout with the edge of the bowl, and the host will Will understand the guests’ intentions.

Toasting: Mongolian people believe that fine wine is the essence of food, and pouring wine to toast guests is the traditional way of Mongolian hospitality. Usually the host pours the wine into a silver bowl, gold cup or horn cup, puts it on a long hada, and sings a touching Mongolian traditional toast song. If the guests push, give, pull, and don’t drink, It will be considered as unwilling to treat each other sincerely. Guests should immediately catch the wine, and then follow the Mongolian way of toasting: holding the cup with the left hand, dipping the ring finger of the right hand in the wine to worship the sky, then dipping the wine to worship the earth, and finally dipping the wine to worship the ancestors (dipping the ring finger with the ring finger) The wine is lit in the direction of the sky, the earth, and the stove to show respect to the gods of heaven, earth, and fire), and then the wine is drank down. Don't force yourself if you don't know how to drink, but you can touch your lips as a sign of acceptance of the host's pure friendship. The Mongolian people have been a hospitable nation since ancient times. VIPs will be greeted with wine when they arrive, but they will not be forced to drink it all. However, those who are not suitable for drinking must accept the silver bowl as a sign of courtesy. The Mongolian standard of hospitality is that it is polite to drink the guests down.

Respect the elders and the young: Mongolians have an orderly approach to their elders and younger ones. When you are a guest at a herdsman's house in a ger, you should greet the elderly when you see them. Do not pass in front of the elderly, do not sit on top of them, and do not sit side by side with the elderly without permission. Address the elderly as "you" and do not address them with "you" or call them by their first names. . When you see the children of herdsmen, do not reprimand loudly, let alone beat or scold them. Do not talk about the children's physical defects in person. Being kind and kind to the children is considered to be a sign of respect for the parents.