🇲🇳 Wedding traditions of Mongolia
7 traditions from Mongolia, best known first, across 1 city and town.
A wedding in Mongolia, stage by stage
The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.
| Finding a match | Ala kachuu |
|---|---|
| Engagement and betrothal | Ala kachuu, Heqin |
| The weeks before | Khata, Cloud collar |
| The ceremony | Deel, Cloud collar |
| The wedding feast | Biyelgee |
| Reception, dance and gifts | Khata, Biyelgee |
Cities, towns and villages of Mongolia
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 2 moreAla kachuuала качуу
A Kyrgyz custom of taking a woman for marriage, ranging from consensual elopement to forced abduction.Betrothal · Finding a match
🇨🇳 Beijing, China and 4 moreHeqin和親 (Héqīn)
A historical Chinese policy of uniting imperial families with neighboring rulers to secure peace.Betrothal · Engagement and betrothal
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ala kachuu: Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia: ..., 1871-1, Public domain, source
- Heqin: पाटलिपुत्र, CC BY-SA 4.0, source