Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

The ritual for summoning prosperity is a symbolic ritual to bring out the bounty of life and nature. During this ceremony, the peculiarly patterned cloth sack or wooden box containing grains, confections and sweets, ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Religious Mask Dancing Ceremony

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

The Tsam dance is an assembly of religious dancing by wrathful deities. The characters of religious dancing are the fanciful figures of Buddhist disciples in their dreamy meditations. The dancing characters seek to drive ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Festival of the Mongolian Camel Herders

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

The original birthplace of the Mongolian Camels(Bactrian) was the great Gobi. Mongolians domesticated wild camels and bred them. Since then many centuries have passed. The Bactrian camels of Mongolia are the best of the ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Naadam – Three Manly Sports of Mongolia

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

Naadam The most important celebration for the Mongolian people since ancient times was and is the traditional three manly sports (naadam). During this important celebration there is wrestling among men, which tests men’s strength ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Traditional Knowledge of Genealogical Inheritance

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

Mongolians carefully maintain knowledge of their genealogies, which can stretch back to ancient times. Accounts of the descent of their relatives and children help to define families as a unique social unit and as ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

New Ger-Warming Ceremony

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

New Ger-Warming Feasts There is a saying: “A hearth starts from the smoke of the trivet, a ger starts from a hut.” Erecting a new ger is part of the marriage ceremony. Some families ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Naming and Giving Ablution to a Child

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

Mongolians consider childbirth as a good omen. We say that when a child is born, its food is predestined, that is why childbirth is an exceptional event in our life. So we perform an ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Birthday Celebration

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

One of the traditional ceremonies among the Mongolian customs is the birthday celebration. This celebration can be divided into two types. One is a child’s birthday celebration, another is aged people’s birthday celebration. The ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Mongolian Wedding

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

Wedding Ceremony The Mongolian wedding ceremony is basically a confirmation of marriage of a young couple and a chance to wish them a happy life together. This is also a chance to show the ...

Traditional Folk Knowledge and Technology

Greetings in Mongolia

Telmen Luvsandorj Apr 19, 2018

The customs Mongols have for greeting and showing respect toward others is traditionally quite rich. When guests arrive at someone’s ger they say nokhoi khori (hold the dog) before getting off the horse. Thereafter, ...