Along understand more about the lives of the residents have lived nomadic Mongolia, grazing on the prairie for thousands of years.
Mongolia is known to be a country of steppes is immense and the residence of the community ofnomads . The Mongolian people are mainly migrant seasonal and animal needs - to find suitable grazing areas, to avoid inclement weather.
Life "nomad" also gives photographers Brian Hodges much inspiration. Favorite discovery, he has to come here and live for months in tents of a Mongolian family.
Through the skillful hands of his photography, the life of nomads between majestic steppe appeared enchanting.
Despite wide area but most of the land in Mongolia is grassland, suitable for livestock than for crops.
Along with that, the climate here is relatively harsh summer heat background can reach 40 degrees Celsius during winter, average temperatures down to - 30 degrees C. This led some residents to leave Mongolia left his home country, moving through to find work in industrial areas, mining.
The life of nomadic Mongolian people today are not much different from their ancestors, still nomad tent with round and a herd - the greatest asset of every family.
However, with the development of the world, their life today has more bicycles, motorcycles, home appliances such as televisions, washing machines ... taking power from the solar battery.
The round hut, a Mongolian yurt or Ger called - an architectural feature of Mongolia. The Mongols began to build them from the sixteenth century. Two chassis support pillar, center of the circle is where the stove.
The framework consists of three layers: the outermost is the white canvas, rough layer of skin between the fur for insulation, in the same class as tapestries. Tents on a space acts as the clock, the sun shines through ball based on who they know now grazing.
The dimensions of the tents are carefully calculated to warm in winter, cool in summer. Daily necessities are also prepared to save a convenient way to move frequently. Every year, a family of nomads "move" around 7- 8 times.
Common cattle nomads of Mongolia are horses, sheep, cows and camels, in some places there is more cold than reindeer.
Horses are the most important livestock, give people milk, meat, a source of food ingredients.Although today, the Mongolian tribes residents used motor vehicles but many horses are still the main means of transportation on the prairies.
Staple food in the summer of Mongolian nomads is fermented horse milk. Horse milk squeezed out is contained in the iron barrel overnight and skim milk scum on the surface, and place in the large leather bag, using a strong stirring timber.
A few days later fermented sour milk, horse milk became sour dishes as giam.Vao winter bar, whey is also fermented and dried into big cake colored cheese, hard as a rock, but when cut out chewing to see because even plastic and fat.
Every year, from 11 - 13/7, nomads in Mongolia over the country together Naadam festival held to commemorate Genghis Khan established the Mongolian State (1206).
This is a national festival and meaningful to many people. At the festival, the tribal residents will come together to perform music, folk dance shows and organize sports competitions of Mongolia's traditional horse racing, archery, polo ...
Although Mongolia has developed today than before, but the existence of the nomadic tribes remain forever is characteristic of the country with this immense steppes. If given the chance, you try once came here to experience "the pleasure" of nomadic life.
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