Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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Volume 68: Issue 3
Taboos related to food culture at the 13th–14th-century Mongols
Authors:
Kisun Kim Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Dongdaemun-gu, Imunro 107, Seoul, Korea

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Sungyoung Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Dongdaemun-gu, Imunro 107, Seoul, Korea

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Jongoh Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Dongdaemun-gu, Imunro 107, Seoul, Korea

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Pages:
293–302
Online Publication Date:
Sep 2015
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2015
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2015.68.3.4
Keywords:
taboo expressions; Mongolian food culture; Plano Carpini; Marco Polo; Chinggis Khan; Rashid ad-Din; mediaeval literature
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This article reviews the characteristics of terms used by the Mongols to express taboos concerning food and examines their food-related culture based on sources from the Mongolian Empire (Plano Carpini’s Historia Mongalorum, Marco Polo’s Il milione, Chinggis Khan’s Yeke Jasag, Rashīd ad-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, and the Yuan Dynasty’s 飮食須知 Yin shi xu zhi). The Mongols left behind fairly strict food-related taboos in the form of eating habits. To better understand Mongolia’s food-related taboo expressions, we have examined five mediaeval sources written in various languages in which diverse food taboos are recorded.

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