Happy Losar

Looks like a great time everyone is having. the last couple of days I have been enjoying some awesome Year of the Sheep celebrations and nian ye fan left overs LOL and handing out my hong bao. Glad to see the family joining in and celebrating the traditions.

nian nian you yu to everyone!
 
Mrs. Martino, these pictures add yet another interesting dimension to this forum. Thank you.
 
We do something very similar for Mongolian new year, called tsagaan sar (white month). Traditional greetings, which mostly consist of asking how your sheep and horses are doing.

Incidentally, its traditions for men to bring their own knife to the feast to slice off pieces of that giant side of lamb. Men have to cut the meat for the woman, etc. Most guys bring hunting knives or kabar and I usually bring a buck 110, but this year I brought my ibbb.
 
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Bookie said:
Mrs. Martino, these pictures add yet another interesting dimension to this forum. Thank you.
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Agreed. HI is a very special place. I find it a rare jewel in today's money driven word. Auntie has created a wonderful place that feels like family. The pictures she posted makes me feel welcomed and a part of everything.
 
Agreed and cool hats.

I also see a similar thermos jug looking thing on the floor at the end of the table, I note they have a similar one in auntie's photos. Is that meaningful for some reason?

We need pictures of the IBBB in that scenario, how cool is that?
 
Hey bawanna!

My guess is that the thermos is for tea. Mongolian and Tibetan tea has a lot of butter in it, if it gets cold it congeals into a solid. Mongolian tea also has this dried beef flakes in it like beef jerky.

While it's customary to BRING a knife to tsagaan sar , its also the one day that its forbidden to CARRY a knife openly. You have to put it in your wife's purse or something. So I don't have any pictures

It's also customary for men to wear a hat, especially while doing the greeting. Most men, even the old timer 70+ year old ones wear fedoras or cowboy hats rather than traditional Mongolian hats. Not sure why. The really old ones wear a chest full of pins and medals from the soviet era. Since the commies couldn't pay people for good performance they'd just award them medals, which they prize to this day.

They also wear big leather belt with HUGE silver belt buckles. Somewhere between a Texas belt buckle and a professional wrestling trophy belt
 
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You expect me to believe that? Ok, I believe it.

You need to stick around regular, love looking at your avatar mask, that's a cool one.

I sometimes sit, well I always sit but sometimes I sit in my man cave and look at mine while I contemplate.

Bookie, that's one of them big words, kind of means like think about heavy stuff.

Butter and dried beef flakes in tea? Now there's something to contemplate first chance I get.
 
Mongolian tea is thick but Tibetan tea is almost like a cup of melted butter. They use yak butter traditionally.
 
If you live in the Himalayas where the temp is sub zero and the air is thin, even your drinks have to pack a few thousand calories!
 
Did somebody mention FOOD?! Blue Lander, I hope you stick around. You talk about things right up my alley. I'm a tea drinking fiend and there are few that I don't care for. (Black tea with fresh snake blood in SE Asia is one of them.) Mongolian tea sounds really good. Guess I must check into it more and see if I can brew some up one of these evenings. Bawanna, if we don't get another 4-6 inches tonight, you'll have to drive over to Corn Patch and if the butter and beef chips are a little tame, I have something out back that we can mix in it. It thaws the frost right out of the ground by itself! It's cold here in Little Russia. Got up to 8 degrees. Was still 11 below at noon when I was at the VA today. Nice cuppa hot tea was had with dinner.
 
Mongolian tea! Beef chips? Butter? Might have to get me one of them big silver buckles and mix me up a glass of Texas Black Angus butter tea since we aint got no Yaks around here:D
 
Some times they also toss some small ground beef dumplings in there but I guess it becomes a soup at that point. If they have some old dried up meat sitting around that's too tough to gnaw on they might throw it in there too to soften it up.
 
The very best New Year to all you fine folks.
The tea sounds great, here near Buffalo the sun has made an appearance. :)

Mark
 
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