Traditional Holiday Tsagaan Sar

Mongolian traditional holiday Tsagaan Sar
Tsagaan Sar is the biggest holiday of Mongolians. It has tradition to be celebrated the first day of White month which is upcoming New Year after out going year in the proper direction according to Lunar calendar horoscope because of symboling to meet the spring successfully after passing severe winter as well as everybody adding new years old.
At the beginning of the 13th century,Temujin established the Great Empire Mongolia because of he could unite the various scattered Mongolian clans. So then Temuujin who ascended the throne at the beginning of the first month of spring in the Red Tiger Year and in the end of winter of bluish-gray ox yaer of the 3d sexangenary. That period, Mongolians are used to celebrate Great Mongolia ceremony in spring every year. So that Most of Asians in the eastern celebrated offerally in spring from Autumn.Thus,Mongolians could celebrate the white month in spring from the Red Tiger Year/1206/.
It has custom to celebrate the birthday party because Everybody adds one and one age in white month. Although Mongolians have had under dictatorship of Manchu for over 200 years,they did not give up their traditional holiday. Mongolians worship in state emblem and pray trending in State leader’s house in the first day of white month.
Tsagaan Sar was culture that the national masses honor a state rule well and the government respects masses.This holiday has been keeping the first idea of dairy product ceremony still now.White month shows that White milk and white colour is symbol of good and clear things.This day’s custom specifically which Mongolians prepared the plenty of foods, cleaned around the home and surrounding fence, everybody wore to make the new clothes,and they met with their relatives and gave the presents each others.White month is;
1. Mongolians take white colour as a good omen.
2. In fact,White month is black day which was empty day.But it has been changed plenty of white day and month.
3. In the ancient times,it was celebrated in Autumn.Still now,people stocked the sample of dairy product in summer and then put in new month. These are prepared for white month to be plenty of foods.
Although White month was Mongolian traditional holiday, Stalizim’s black sleet of blizzard did not spend around them, which effected in the culture of Mongolian masses. But we had been celebrating our traditional holiday often and often, because between 1930and1980,in Mongolia, Political ruling party policy which spread of whole country to worship one person. And then they were curtailing their rights to celebrate great holiday, Tsagaan Sar.
They were to celebrate their Tsagaan sar all over the masses from1988,in due to the soft wind of the Reform started giving up aggressive approach to be limited Mongolian traditional culture and custom in 1980s.
Bituun is called that the last day of end month of winter or the first day Eve of white month, this day is also ended with specific ceremony. Bituun Eve, every housewife worships their God shrine and cleans their dust of home.
This day women prepare the dairy product, but Men prepare to trim a mane and hold their horses up. In day Bituun, home leader opens the door to come in true the talisman and put in white stone on the right of home. And He will bring out to exile evil spirits of bad direcrion to put in thorny bush and sagebrush on the left of home. Thus, they offer the best to the heaven and fire and wear a new nice clothes as deel, and after then it has tradition to be ‘Bituun’.