Do you know what are the characteristics of Mongolian nomadic culture?

Mongolians are nomadic people, and everyone grew up on horseback, because every generation grew up on the vast Mongolian plateau. Therefore, in such a long life, they formed a unique nomadic culture of Mongols. This is an idea based on animism in essence.

First, the formation of Mongolian nomadic culture

As far as nomadic culture is concerned, it is very different from farming culture. Farming culture advocates transforming nature, which is essentially the survival and life of human beings through the struggle with nature. Nomadic culture worships, depends on and adapts to nature, and is integrated with nature, because a perfect natural environment is the basic condition and resource for the development of animal husbandry, nomadic industry has an internal mechanism to adapt to nature, and nomadic people have an internal concept to adapt to nature. Nomadic culture is formed on the basis of nomadic production, including nomadic lifestyle and corresponding specific elements such as literature, art, religion, philosophy, customs and habits.

The industrious and intelligent Mongolians are the epitome and typical representatives of nomadic culture. The Mongolian Plateau starts from Daxinganling in the east, reaches Altai Mountain in the west, borders Sayanling, Kent Mountain and Ya Blauf Mountain in the north, and reaches the yinshan mountains in the south. Most of them are ancient platforms, with mountains in the northwest, vast Gobi in the southeast and big hills in the middle and east. The climate belongs to a typical temperate continental semi-arid and arid type, with scarce precipitation, long and cold winters, frequent snowstorms, short and dry summers, large annual range and diurnal temperature range, heavy sandstorms and abundant sunshine.

Vegetation types are perennial and xerophytic low-temperature herbs. The geographical environment of the Mongolian Plateau is suitable for hunting and nomadic, which breeds nomadic peoples such as Xiongnu, Donghu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Turkic, Qidan and Mongolia, and is the cradle of nomadic culture. In13rd century, the Mongolian people stepped onto the stage of world history, ending thousands of years of ethnic and tribal disputes in the Mongolian Plateau. At the same time, it also inherited, integrated, and developed the cultures of grassland nationalities in past dynasties, and actively absorbed Confucian culture, Buddhist culture, Islamic culture, Christianity and other cultures, constantly enriching and perfecting itself, and formed Mongolian nomadic culture on this basis.

The second is the production and life style of "water grass migration" and "black car and white account" in Mongolian nomadic culture.

The mode of production and lifestyle of human beings are always closely related to the natural environment, and will form a set of production and living customs closely related to the natural environment. The nomadic industry that Mongols engaged in is described as "migrating by weeds" and "living in a black car" in China history books, which seems to be an irregular vagrant life. In fact, it is a way of production and life that maximizes the use of pasture resources without destroying and degrading them.