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Riddles
  • Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright
    Manage No EE00001041
    Country Mongolia
    ICH Domain Oral traditions and representations
    Address
    throughout the Mongolia
    Year of Designation 1965
Description Riddles are the work of folk oral poetry with short phrases and often deep and humorous contents which test one’s intellectual capacity and intend to develop one’s speculative thinking. The riddle usually consists of 2 to 4 lines of verse, although it has a potential to test one’s multiple intellectual activities of comparing, analyzing, combining, reasoning, describing and abstracting. Mongols used to say the riddle for guessing by children and youth from the teenage time and it was giving special contribution to the development of their thinking. For instance: Tuntger ovgon tumen jadtai. The fat old man has many spears, what is this? The answer is “A hedgehog”.
Social and cultural significance Riddles are still told in modern families to entertain each other or as part of providing education to children.
Transmission method by participation and apprenticeship training
Community general population
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Information source
National Center for Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia
http://www.ncch.gov.mn