Erdos wedding ceremony
(chinaculture.org)
Updated: 2013-12-18
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The Wedding of Erdos, originated in ancient Mongolia in the 15th century, popular in Mongolia. Nowadays, the ceremony has evolved into a kind of culture phenomenon. |
Sort: Folk-custom
Area: Inner Mongolia Serial
No.: X-55
Declarer: Erdos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
The Wedding of Erdos, originated in ancient Mongolia in the 15th century, popular in Mongolia. Nowadays, the ceremony has evolved into a kind of culture phenomenon.
The wedding has a series of specific ceremonial procedures, such as present the Hada for engagement, greeting the son-in-law, offering sheep and toasting, asking name and age, mother's blessing and so on, which have been preserved very well and becoming a custom gradually.
The procedures and the contents of the Wedding are different from other nations and other areas of Mongolia, which is the most attractive and grand ceremony in the Mongolia. The singing and dancing make the wedding more joyful and harmonious. The wedding not only embodies the Mongolian greathearted and ceremonious characteristics, but also expresses various ethical cultures to outside, such as the finery，the ceremonial custom and the folk singing and dancing. The wedding of Erdos has the rich and profound cultural connotation.
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The procedures and the contents of the Wedding are different from other nations and other areas of Mongolia, which is the most attractive and grand ceremony in the Mongolia. |
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