What does "Ovoo meeting" mean?

Ovoo is usually a pile of stones into a platform, and in the desert is piled up with willow. Herders in June and July every year to sacrifice Ovoo, after the ceremony, held a traditional horse race, archery, wrestling, singing, dancing and other recreational activities, the girl and the young man took the opportunity to hide in the bushes, talk about love, each other, this is the Ovoo will meet.

Ovoo, originated in the Mongolian plateau, but not unique to the Mongolian plateau. Where the Mongolian people are relatively concentrated in places, such as Xinjiang Tianshan, Inner Mongolia grasslands, Qinghai grasslands and the Northeast half-farming and half-pastoral areas, everywhere you can see the traces of Ovoo. As a neighboring Fuxin with Inner Mongolia, there are also many Ovoo, and Fuxin's Ovoo culture is quite distinctive.

From April to August, the reporter together with the former deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Education, Fuxin primary and secondary schools, one of the authors of the vernacular history and geography of the textbook Wang Kunshan and folk archaeologists Luo Xianming, archaeology enthusiasts Wang Zhenyu and other people in Fuxin's vast mountainous countryside walking in the town of Fosi Fukumeng County, the town of Daba, the town of Wangfu, the town of seven sub-township, Taiping Township townships and other townships found more than a dozen Ao Bao.

Folk archaeologist Luo Xianming in possession of a large number of historical data on the basis, coupled with years of field surveys and visits to the Fuxin region has existed in the Ao Ou and the existing Ao Ou has been more accurate and detailed study. He said that the Ovoo, according to the structural distinction, can be divided into a single Ovoo (i.e., lonely Ovoo) and the cluster Ovoo. Groups of Ovoo are in the center for a large Ovoo, surrounded by a number of small Ovoo (that is, pawn from the Ovoo). The arrangement of the large Ovoo and the pawn Ovoo varies in form. Ovoo to participate in the ritual activities of the crowd, belonging to the division, can be divided into flag Ovoo, regional Ovoo, village Ovoo, clan Ovoo.

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