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Tsagaan Sar
The "White Moon": white dairy foods, a white horse if you have one, and blue silk scarves held out in greeting.
The colours of Tsagaan Sar
The Mongolian New Year is called Tsagaan Sar, which means White Moon or White Month. White is the colour of milk, and for a herding people milk is goodness itself, so the year is opened with white foods: dried curds, milk tea, rice cooked in milk, and a tall stack of long biscuits topped with white sweets. The saying is that a year begun white will stay pure. Families put on their best deel, the long robe, in silk of blue, green, wine red or gold, with a bright sash. The young greet the old by supporting their elbows, often holding a khadag, a silk scarf. In Mongolia the khadag is most often sky blue, the colour of the eternal sky.
#FBFBF6Milk whiteDairy foods that open the year; purity.#3E8EDEKhadag blueGreeting scarves, for the eternal blue sky.#7A1F3DDeel wineSilk robes worn for visits.#D8A31ASash goldSashes and brocade trim.Values are fair approximations, not official shades.
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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Tsagaan Sar" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.