Mongolians mainly eat meat and milk, and the traditional way of eating is "hand-picked meat": large pieces of fat and tender mutton boiled in white water and then served on the table, and eaten with a Mongolian knife dipped in the ingredients; "Roasted whole goat": the whole goat is gutted, and all kinds of seasonings are filled into the incision and the abdominal cavity. "Roasted whole goat": the whole goat is gutted, filled with various seasonings into the incision and abdominal cavity, and then loaded into the oven for roasting, the roasted whole goat with crispy skin and tender meat is a delicacy for entertaining honored guests. Mongolian people love to drink tea, especially milk tea made from brick tea. In addition, horse milk wine is also one of the traditional Mongolian beverages.
Taboos of hospitality
Is it not a pleasure to have friends come from afar? China has always been a country of etiquette and hospitality, especially among the Mongolians. When you come to visit a Mongolian yurt, not only will you be warmly welcomed by the host, but you will also experience some national culture that you have never touched or known before. Of course, before entering the life of Mongolians, it is necessary to understand some of their customs and taboos, otherwise, if you go according to their own ideas to act arbitrarily, not only will make a joke, but also will make Mongolian compatriots unhappy.
First of all, to the Mongolian home guests taboo into the house when the lapel tucked in the belt, rolled up the sleeves, and may not be hand-held horse whip into the house. No matter whether you are a guest or a host, you should let the elders and the elderly enter the house first.
After entering the house, it is taboo to sit in a disorderly position. If you are a guest, you should let the guest sit on the upper side of the room, and the guest should ask the elder to sit on the upper side of the room first. In the yurt, it is always the elders who sit on the front side, the men do the west side and the women do the east side.
It is taboo to lose your temper with your children when you have guests present, and you can't scold them. The elders and the elderly speech taboo interruptions, reveal the shortcomings. If you have a question or need to clarify a situation, wait until the person has finished speaking before asking.
If you come to the Mongolian yurt as a guest, the host will immediately offer a bowl of steaming milk tea, and then served up fried rice and a big bowl of a big bowl of cream, milk tofu and milk skin and other dairy products, when the host asked you to taste, do not refuse, or else you will have to hurt the host's heart and make the host feel sorry. Mongolians are not afraid of not others to eat more, the more edible, the more happy the host. After accepting the master's tea and rice, it is taboo to not eat at all; it is taboo to use chopsticks to consume milk food and stand to drink milk and eat milk food; it is taboo to casually sprinkle down the milk; when encountering other people walking by with milk, you can not turn a blind eye to it, you must taste it before you go.
The taboos of drinking tea: taboo on full cups of tea; taboo on pouring tea with the left hand; taboo on pouring tea from the door to the outside; taboo on eating and drinking tea with a long pause.
Consumption of red food taboos: when tasting deji and consuming sheep's back, taboo clothing, except for the ring finger, other fingers are prohibited to sprinkle deji; gnawing bones taboo residual meat scraps; in the consumption of scapula, taboo biting and eating, you should eat with a knife or tearing with your hands; consumption of bones, taboo with each other to knock; the usual meat food, taboo consumption of cow gall bladder and fox meat, dog meat, cat meat.
Eating taboos: taboos on giving guests unsalted tea and rice; taboos on blowing air through the mouth when eating hot rice; taboos on pouring and spreading food; taboos on stretching after meals.
Relatively with the hospitality, the host family usually do the preparatory work is also taboo: for example, when cutting meat taboo broken bones, should be disconnected joints; taboo in the meat food put upside down on the head and tail; to the pot of rice taboo with a bag pouring; pounding tea taboo counting; pancakes and fried food taboo shouting, say inauspicious language and so on.