Essay on The Mongolian Ethnic Group

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The Mongolian Ethnic Group

Table of contents
Introduction.........................................................................................1
History and Traditions..........................................................................1
Holidays and Celebrations...................................................................3
Communication....................................................................................4
Dress and Personal Appearance...........................................................5
Food.....................................................................................................7
Pets and Other Animals.......................................................................8
Art and Music......................................................................................9
Conclusion............................................................................................10

Introduction
Mongol, which is a member of a Asian ethnic group, in which there are a lot of people who live mainly in tribal on the Mongolian Plateau sharing a nomadic tradition and language. Nowadays, their motherland has been divided into the two separate country of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China and the Outer Mongolia. Due to migrations and wars, Mongols are almost everywhere throughout Central Asia. Mongols largely live in the Inner Mongolia, while the others reside in many places in China. As for the largest Mongolian area, which was the earliest establishment in China, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was founded in 1947, with its capital as Hohhot. This massive and fertile expanse of land lives with more than 21,000,000 people.

History and Traditions
The history of Mongolia, which has been acknowledged by the United Nations, is a masterpiece of literature and history written in Mongolian language, as the well known cultural heritage of the world. As the epitome of the three heroic epics in Chinese literature about the wars of Mongols, Jianggeer reflects the Mongolian tribe wars.
Genghis Khan, created and united the Mongols, who were the world’s biggest empire to date. He conquered china and then made the Yuan policies regarding economic aspect. In addition, in order to adapt to traditional Chinese customs, Yuan rulers wasn’t in attempt to change the chinese into the nomadic economy; On the contrary, the agriculture was advanced.
With the great cultural tradition for Mongolians, they have also made memorable contributions to China in science and culture. The Mongols took advantage of the technology, resources, and skills of the places they conquered.
The Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century turned the world upside down; they spanned the globe from Germany to Korea, they destoryed kingdoms and empires wholesae, and left the greater part of the Old World shaken and transformed. (Saunders) There are only few documented record existing with the fatanstic career of Chingis Khan; no scholarly life of his well known grandson Kubilai Khan, immortalized by Marco Polo and Coleridge, exists in any Western language, and even the best general histories of the medieval world deal very roughly with these enormous events. The reasons for this strange neglect are probably the vast scope of the subject and daunting character of the linguistic problem.
In spite of this, in the 13th century, their script they created brought about many prominent historical and literary works, including the Inside History of Mongolia of the Mid-13th Century and the History of the Song Dynasty, History of the Liao Dynasty and History of the Kin Dynasty edited by Tuo Tuo, a Mongolian historian during the Yuan Dynasty. (People's )
Not only did the mongols make great advanced in culture in the Ming Dynasty, but they great historical writings and