Mongolian wedding (Wuzhumuqin wedding)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Mongolian wedding (Wuzhumuqin wedding)

Applicant: xiwuzhumuqin banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Project No.: 503

Project No.: Ⅹ - 55

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: xiwuzhumuqin banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Protection unit: xiwuzhumuqin banner Cultural Center

Brief introduction of Mongolian wedding (Wuzhumuqin wedding)

Applicant: xiwuzhumuqin banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Mongolian wedding with distinctive national characteristics, in a special form to show the Mongolian rough, forthright, brave, wisdom, hard-working, kind-hearted national character. Mongolian people are widely distributed in different areas, and different wedding ceremonies with different characteristics are formed due to their different places of residence. The traditional wedding is carried out in the yurt. In the wedding, the national traditional costumes can be fully displayed. The wedding ceremony is similar in different places, and the display of riding is one of the characteristics. Wedding process is often accompanied by various forms of song and dance performances, the scene is very warm.

Xiwuzhumuqin banner is located in the northeast of Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is a pure animal husbandry banner with Mongolian as the main body. Wuzhumuqin wedding has a long history. It is famous for its unique northern ethnic style, strong nomadic atmosphere, warm singing and dancing forms and grand scenes. The whole wedding process is full of etiquette, including more than 30 links, such as engagement, reception, wedding and return, which shows the diligent, brave and intelligent Ujimqin people's ardent pursuit of a better life.

Due to a variety of specific reasons, the wedding ceremony of Ujimqin has been watered down and is in danger of being lost.