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Inner Mongolia Travel Tips
- Updated:
- Sep. 14, 2009;
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- China Highlights;
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- On seeing flocks and herbs on the grassland, you'd better go round to stay away from them, because it is considered as an offense to the owner for walking through the flocks and herbs.
- Taking a Family visit. Go to your seat in the Mongolian yurt from the left-hand side of the stove, and sit on the west or north side. Don't sit on the east, which is the place of the host's living room. You can sit on the ground without taking off your shoes. Don't sit on the saddle back board.
- When visiting a Mongolian family, visitors will be served with a bowl of milk tea, and you should take it with your both hands or just the right hand, but don't take the tea with your left hand, which is considered as a bad manner. If you don't want to drink any more tea, knock the bowl with your spoon, and the host may know what you mean.
- It is also a traditional way for Mongols to serve guests with liquor, which is a way to express their respect towards the guests. Usually the host with pour the liquor in a silver bowl or a golden bowl, or ox horn. Holding the bowl of liquor and a hada (a piece of silk used as a greeting gift) on his hands, the host will serve his guests with some liquor. What's more, the family will propose a toast to the guests by singing and dancing. The guests should take the bowl of liquor quickly, and it is rude to reject drinking the liquor. However, if you are not good at drinking, you can just take a sip of it. Anyway, drinking the liquor means you accept the pure kindness of the host.
- Presenting hada is a necessary way for Mongols to show their greetings to the guests. When presenting hada, they will sing a song of blessing, and give guests hada with their both hands. The guest should stand up to receive hada, facing the host. Gratitude should be expressed to the host by the guest through making the move of crossing the hands before the chest.
- Mongols consider water as the spirit of purity. So tourist should avoid washing hands, clothes in the river. Don’t throw any dirty thing into the river. Mongols live in the grassland, grazing their herbs near rivers, and they cannot live without water, that’s why they are used to saving water and keeping water clean.
