MONGOLIA CULTURE ARE PROUD PEOPLE

GENGISH BANDED THE MONGOLIAN TRIBES TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1206. THEY  FORMED A STATE OF THE STEPPE EMPIRES AND NOMADIC CULTURES CREATED BY THE ANCIENTS WHO HELD A UNIQUE PLACE  IN THE WORLD'S  HISTORY. THE MONGOL'S ARE PROUD. THE STEPPE EMPIRES AND NOMADIC CULTURE.  THE MONGOL'S ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE.

THIS COUNTRY IS LOCATED IN CENTRAL ASIA.  IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND  AND CHINA.  IT IS SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND CHINA.  IT MEASURES 604,000 SQUARE MILES. THE COUNTRY IS LARGER THAN WESTERN EUROPE.  IT HAS A DESERT STEPPE, AND MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.  THE CLIMATE  IS EXTREME WITH LOW PRECIPITATION AND LONG, LONG HARSH WINTERS WITH -50 DEGREES  CENTIGRADE.  THE CAPITAL ULAENBAATAR, MEANS  RED HERO.  THIS COUNTRY ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST SPARSELY INHABITED COUNTRIES. WITH 2.6 MILLION.  OVER 70% ARE UNDER 30.

THEY SPEAK MONGOLIAN.  THE ANCIENT MONGOL EMPIRE CONTAINS KOREAN MANCHU, FINNISH, TURKISH, AND HUNGARIAN FOLKS.  THEIR FLAG REPRESENTSFIRE, SUN, MOON EARTH AND THE YIN YANG SYMBOL. DATING TO THE 17TH CENTURY.  UNTIL THE 12TH CENTURY THE MONGOLS APPEAR IN HISTORICAL RECORDS AS WARRING CLANS.  AFTER 20 YEARS OF WARFARE HE UNITED MOST OF THE MONGAL CLANS WAS CALLED GENGIS KHAN OR UNIVERSAL KING IN 1206.  HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS EXPANDED THEIR EMPIRE INTO ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE. IT LASTED 175 YEARS.  THEN INTERNAL CONFLICTS CAUSED ITS POWER TO WANE IN THE 17TH CENTURY THEY WERE RULED BY MANCHUS FOR 2000 YEARS.  IN 1911 THE MANCHUS WERE OVERTHROWN.  THE MONGUL'S WERE OVERTHROWN  THE SPENT 10 YEARS FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE CHINESE WITH RUSIAN ASSISTANCE.  BUY 1921 THEY BECAME FREED.   THEIR NATIONAL CULTURE WAS SHAPED BY THE NOADIC LIFE.  THE LEGACY OF GHENGIS KAHN'S EMPIRE I A MONGOL NATIONALIST PRIDE TODAY.

78% ARE KHALKHA MONGOLS.  SMALL GROUPS ARE CHINESE  AND RUSSIAN.
AFTER WWII MANY PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM RURAL TO URBAN AREAS TO WORK.  THEY HAD MORE EXTENIVE FARMING AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION.  THE URBAN FOLKS LIVED IN NOMADIC GERS, ROUND TENTS MADE OF FOLDING WOOD WALLS AND FELT COVERINGS.

THEY EAT BEEF AND MILK, CHEESE PRODUCTS.  THEY COOK VERY SIMPLY.  THEY MAKE STEAMED MEAT FILLED DUMPLINGS,  MUTTON SOUP AND FRIED PASTAS.  THEY FEED THEIR GUESTS WHEN THEY COME OVER.  THEY SET OUT A HOSPITALITY BOWL  WITH CHEESES AND CANDY.  THEY DRINK VODKA DURING CELEBRATIONS.  THEY HAVE FIVE TYPES OF ANIMALS - SHEEP, GOATS, CATTLE, HORSES, AND CAMELS.  THEY MAKE HIDES AND WOOL.  THEIR COUNTRY IS RICHANIMAL FOODER, POTATOES, AND OTHER VEGETABLES.  THEY ARE RICH  IN COAL, COPPER, GOLD , FLORSPAR, AND MOLYBDEMON AND OIL.    HERDERS USED THE ANIMALS AND PAID TAXES FOR USING PATURELAND. UNDER THE SOCIALIST SYTEM THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS THAT COULD BE WAS TIGHTLY RESTRICTIVE AND IN 1980'S AS THE RESTRICTIONS BEGAN TO BE LIFTED.

THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA GOT AID FROM RUSSIA FOR FUNDING HEALTH CARE AND THE PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH CARE.  THE MEN HANDLED MILITARY AFFAIRS AND TRADE MATTERS.  MEN HUNTED AND SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS.  WOMEN DID HOUSEWORK AND MILKED ANIMALS.MADE DAIRY PRODUCTS, COOKED AND SEWED AND TOOK CARE OF CHILDREN.

THEIR FAMILIES WERE THE MAIN UNIT OF PRODUCTION IN THIS HERDING. SOCIETIES.  IN THE KINSHIP SYSTEM MARRIAGES WERE ARRANGED BY PARENTS.  THE NORM BECAME FOR CHILDREN TO THEIR OWN PARTNERS.

SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES CUSTOMARILY LIVE TOGETHER IN A NOMADIC CAMP KNOWN AS A KHOT AIL AND SHARE HERDING TASKS.  THIS CAMP CONSISTS OF TWO TO SEVEN HOUSEHOLDS FOR HERDING AND HAS NUMEROUS LOCAL RITUALS.  A LARGER GROUPS  CALLED NEG MITGUNHAM GENERALLY CONSISTS  OF FOUR TO TWENTY KHOT AILS AND FREQUENTLY  MOVES AND WORKS TOGETHER.

THEIR RELIGION IS LAMAISM  OR THE YELLOW SECT OF TIBETAN BUDDISM.   UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY.  UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY SHAMANISM  WAS THE DOMINANT RELIGION IN MONGOLIA.  LAMAISON WAS INTRODUCED BY THE POPULACE IN 1507.  THEY PREFERRED THEIR MALES TO BE BECOME MONKS VS. WARRIORS.  MORE THAN 700 MONASTERIESWERE KILLED.  BUDISSM IS EXPERIENCING A RESURGENCE .

THE PATTERN OF INHERITANCE WOULD BE THE YOUNGEST SON WHO WOULD INHERIT THEIR PARENT'S ANIMALS.  TODAY THERE IS MORE VARIATION IN INHERITANCE.

CHILDREN ARE TREASURED IN MONGOLIAN CULTURE AND LARGE FAMILIES WERE THE NORM.   THIS VIEW IS CHANGING BUT MANY FOLKS THINK LARGE FAMILIES ARE THE NORM.  THEY PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON THEIR FAMILIES.

TRADITIONALLY WOMEN ENJOY HIGHER SOCIAL STATUS, THEY MADE FELT.  TRAINING FOR LAMAS FOCUSED ON THE THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND LEARNING TO PERFORM CEREMONIES.  THE MAJORITY OF LAMAS  RETURNED TO THE WORK FORCE AND SOME OF THE TEMPLES  WERE PRESERVED AS SHOWCASES  OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE.

DURING A DEATH IN THE FAMILY  PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD PROVIDE GIFTS OF ANNUALS  AND MONEY  TO ASSIST THE FAMILY AT THE TIME OF THE FUNERAL.  THEY ALL  HAD HEALTH CARE IN SOCIALISM AND USED WESTERN MEDICINE, ACCUPUNCTURE AND MASSAGE ARE PRACTICED IN MONGOLIA.  THERAPUETIC SPAS ARE BECAME VERY CHALLENGING AS THEIR IS ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISES.

THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS 67 YEARS ONLY!

THE MONGOLS WERE HIGHLY MOBILE AND MOST ART FORMS  BECAME POPULAR INVOLVED EPIC POETRY,  MUSIC AND DANCE,  ONE POEM IS ABOUT GHENGIS KHAN POWER.  THEY PRACTICED PERFORMING ARTS AND HAVE WIDELY PRACTICED IN MONGOLIAN CENTURIES.  THEY PLAY FOLK INSTUMENTS LIKE A HORSE HAIR FIDDLE.  MEN WERE EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE HORSE HAIR FIDDLE.  THEY WERE ALSO HAD FLUTES AND GONGS.  THEY NOW HAVE ROCK GROUPS. 

IN 1961 THE MONGOLIAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE WAS FOUNDED BY 14 INSTITUTES.

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