Culture

Painting

Historical and cultural monuments on and under the ground of central Asia are mirrors of the wisdom and rich cultural heritage of our ancestors. Rock and cave pictures found in Dundgobi, Uvurkhangai and Khovd aimags indicated that this art was flourishing in Mongolia at the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. Read more

Clothes

Mongols do like to wear nice, richly decorated clothes which compensate the simple, ascetic nomadic lifestyle. A harsh climate and uneasy life demand attention to smallest details of clothes. Read more

Ger-Tradional house

A round wooden-framed felt tent covered in durable while canvas seems to be the most simple description of this portable home, familiar to many from Russian word yurt. The modern shape of the Mongolian ger has been formed as the result of a long development from huts, marquees and wheeled abodes. Read more

Morin Khuur

The Morin khuur is a chordophone of Mongolian origin whose name translates as "horse-head fiddle". It is played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands. It is the most important musical instrument of the Mongolian people, and the Mongolian nation. Read more

Mongolian language

Mongolian language is one of the Ural-Altaic family's language. Today more than 10 million people who live in Mongolia, Kazakh, Buryat, Inner Mongolia in China and others speak Mongolian language. Read more

Urtiin duu - Long song

The Urtiin Duu is the most refined form of Mongolian folk song, possessing an extremely rich rhythm, and capturing the free ranging spirit of the nomadic Mongols with its wide and meandering melody, expansive range, and abundance of ornamentation. The singing of the urtiin duu requires of the singer considerable artistic feeling and skill. Read more

Khuumii(diaphonic singing)

This form of expression involves the whistling of a finely ornamented melody with the tip of the tongue and the front teeth, accompanied simultaneously by a lower, rumbling base tone produced in the throat, which harmonizes with the higher melody. Mongol Khuumii or throat singing involves producing two simultaneous tones with the human voice. I Read more

Bielgee - Folk dance

Dance has been inseparably linked to the human development and evolved with it. Every gesture of human life has certain meaning to it. Dance has evolved based on human everyday motions, movements, and gesture that are used for hunting and living purposes. This has become the basis of today's development and establishment of the culture, dance and classical art. Read more

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