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Mongolian Wedding Performance

Hello from China
Again a bit touristy but a fantastic production of music, dancing and singing with spectacular costumes.
The guy is the matchmaker from the boy's side who enjoys his tipple a bit too much

The girl is the matchmaker from the girls side rejecting the paltry dowry that he is offering
These girls crept into the performance in the most unlikely of Mongolian costumes. We concluded that this was to keep the Chinese males interested in culture!
Real tear jerking stuff as the matchmaker takes the girl away from her mother presumably to ride off across the grasslands with her beloved.

Not a bad interpretation, since the whole performance was in Mongolian with a high pitched translation into Mandarin to help.

posted by Ann Salmon @ 9:42 pm