Lunar New Year
Mongolians celebrate the Lunar New Year / Lunar Month/ as a passing of one year and a welcoming of a new one. The first day of the New Year is traditionally a popular festival. ...
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Mongolian Shamanism – Traditions and Ceremonies
Mongolian Shamanism is one of the oldest forms of religion. It has been developed on the basis of the belief in totemism and dates back to 300 to 400 BC. The Huns, ancestors of ...
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Popular Mongolian Customs Related to Household
Customs related to the household and human life include social events that occur in the life of a family or community. Oral poetry and traditional customs express a family’s or community’s feelings of respect, ...
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Mongolian Hunting
Mongolia is a country that consists of the wide-open steppe lands, forests, rivers, mountains and deserts, and each has its own types of animal species. Therefore, from ancient times Mongolians have traditionally created many ...
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Mongolian Traditional Mare Milking
The milk libation ceremony is celebrated to greet the warmth of spring and to receive the newborn animals. But at the beginning of summer, the mare’s milking ceremony is performed as a sign of ...
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Deer Game
As deer is one the most revered and sacred animals for Mongolians and an important source of their livelihood, Mongolians created a variety of games and toys named ‘buga’ (deer), such as, Deer Jirgens, ...
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Zendmene
Zendmene is one of the ancient games played by Mongolians. It is known as ‘Khorol’ in Western Mongolia. Zendmene is crafted with square wood blocks, sized and shaped similar to ancient dominos. There are ...
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Board Games
Board games include shatar (Mongolian chess), draughts (checkers) and the deer game. These are very ancient games. Mongolian Chess Shatar or Mongolian chess is considered to be the king of the board games. It ...
Read more→Brainstorming Games
Requiring solid thinking and problem-solving capacity, brainstorming games have a long tradition in Mongolia. These kinds of oral games are popular among people even today and contribute to developing creative thinking. Here are some ...
Read more→Beaking The Chain
Breaking the chain and Dropping a handkerchief game has become known among Mongolians since around 1960s and mainly school children play them during their break time. Two groups of children stand hand-in-hand, resembling a ...
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