Dear travelers, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Here are some facts that how Mongolia celebrates the New Year …
Mongolians, who has been celebrating the Lunar New Year “White Moon” over eight centuries, has started putting up the Christmas trees more than 90 years. It is amazingly strange to know how this western culture spread into the nomads of Central Asia. There are facts that one of the great writer of Mongolia D. Natsagdorj has celebrated a first new year in the 1930s with a group of friends. Mongolian youth, who had educated in the West at that time, returned back to Mongolia for the first time and they have celebrated the New Year. However, because of this small “celebration” has caused for reproach to the Great Writer, the founder of modern Mongolian literature. But as part of a state ceremony, it was celebrated all over the country much later since 1947. The party and state authorities, led by Mongolian Prime Minister H. Choibalsan, celebrated 31st December on that year.
In doing so, there is interesting evidence on the first Mongolian cake. Making the cake “in the shape of a lying sheep”, according to the dinner tradition, and naming it after the great man, R. Renchin, said the “pie” (wrong) should be good to eat and up to be spoiled with delicious pie, and that it is more appropriate to call “cake” (byaluu). This is the story of the name of this moist and delicious. In fact, the New Year is celebrated because of the abolition of the last Mongolian king Bogd, and the use of the solar (Gregorian) calendar that people have appropriated for everyday life. Mongols learned a lot from the Russians about western culture and we also learned to celebrate the New Year in accordance with Russian traditions. We have had the legacy of tradition in which Russians celebrate the New Year as a family celebration, sitting around a table and popping the cork of a champagne, saying the warmest words to each other as the New Year passes.
Moreover, the Mongolian custom is also mixed, any moment of the change of the New Year time, bidding farewell to the past and respectfully welcoming the new times, has the Mongolian tradition of cleaning the house, washing clothes and giving charity to the poor and children.
The president of the country, through the media, in the main square, summarizes the achievements of the year, social and political, and wishing the best wishes with celebratory shootings and broadcast throughout the country.
In the socialist era, every 31st of December, every company celebrated the New Year with Santa Claus accompanied by his daughters (snow girl) in blue dresses and gave gifts to the best children and employees who proved themselves during the year, but since the democratic revolution of 1990, organizations celebrated the new year on one of the days in December and Santa Claus distributed Christmas gifts to everyone.
Here is the New Year’s song of Mongolian Santa Claus and his Snow Daughters.
In the coming year 2020, we wish you to create an unforgettable memories of life while traveling in the beautiful country of Mongolia.