Tug (banner)
A tug (
History
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Early history
According to
It was also used by Mongolic tribes too. The white-haired banner is used as a peacetime symbol, while the black banner was for wartime. Usage of the horse tail is symbolic because horses were central to the Mongols' livelihood. This is similar to the use of horse tail hairs for the morin khuur. The original white banner disappeared early in history, but the black one survived as the repository of Genghis Khan's soul. The Mongols continued to honor the banner, and Zanabazar (1635–1723) built a monastery with the special mission of flying and protecting the black banner in the 17th century.[13] Around 1937, the black banner disappeared amidst the great purges of the nationalists, monks and intellectuals, and the destruction of monasteries.
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Genghis Khan proclaimed Khagan of all Mongols. White banners can be seen on the right. 15th-century ms. ofRashid al-Din's "History of the World" (BNF Supplément persan 1113, fol. 44v)
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The Mongols besieging a city in the Middle East. The black banner can be seen behind the trebuchet, early 14th-century miniature from a ms. of Rashid al-Din's "History of the World" (Edinburgh University Library)
Modern era
The Nine White banners
The Nine White banners came into renewed significance in Mongolia after democracy was adopted in the early 1990s as a symbol of the traditional Mongolian state, replacing the previous
The state banner flown by the Mongols, the Есөн хөлт цагаан туг, (Yesön Khölt tsagaan tug, 'Nine Base White Banners)', is composed of nine flag poles decorated with white horse tail hairs hanging from a round surface with the Mongolian symbol of the 3 pronged flame, which appears on the
Black banners
The Dörvön khölt khar sulde[16][17] (Дөрвөн хөлт хар сүлд) or the lit. 'Four Base Black Banners' was used in wartime. It is made of black horse tail hairs and flown in the same fashion. According to the illustrated Japanese chronicle Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, the banner of the Mongolian Yuan fleet that invaded Japan was black. The modern Mongolian black banners are kept in the Ministry of Defense.
Tugs in the Mongolian military
Within the Mongolian Armed Forces, the black tug is used as the finial in military colours' flagpoles, while the white tug is used by the Mongolian State Honor Guard and is the finial in the colours of the civil security services.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ Boeheim (1890), pp. 510, 511
- ^ Kenzheakhmet, Nurlan. Ethnonyms and Toponyms of the Old Turkic Inscriptions in Chinese sources. Studia et Documenta Turcologica. pp. 302–304.
- ^ Довідник з історії України. За ред. І. Підкови та Р. Шуста. — Київ: Генеза, 1993.
- ^ Бунчук // Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона
- ^ Zheng Zhang (Chinese: 鄭張), Shang-fang (Chinese: 尚芳). 纛 – 上古音系第二千四百八十九字 [纛 - The 2489th word of the Ancient Phonological System]. ytenx.org [韻典網] (in Chinese). Rearranged by BYVoid.
- ^ Baxter, William H. & Sagart, Laurent (2014) Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (20 September 2014): order: by Mandarin and Middle Chinese (pdf) p. 23 of 161
- ^ Nishanyan, Sevan. "tuğ - Nisanyan Dictionary". Wayback Machine: “tuğ - Nisanyan Dictionary”. Nisanyan Sozluk. Archived from the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
Doerfer II.969, Gerard Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish sf. 464 Çinceden alıntı olarak değerlendirirler ise de, Çince sözcüğün Türkçe veya Moğolcadan alıntı olması kültür tarihi açısından daha güçlü olasılıktır.
- ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. p. 411
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972). An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-13th Century Turkish. Oxford University Press. p. 464
- Zhoushu vol. 50. quote: "旗纛之上,施金狼頭。侍衞之士,謂之附離,夏言亦狼也。蓋本狼生,志不忘舊。"
- Suishu vol. 84quote: "故牙門建狼頭纛,示不忘本也。"
- ^ Kenzheakhmet, Nurlan. Ethnonyms and Toponyms of the Old Turkic Inscriptions in Chinese sources. Studia et Documenta Turcologica. pp. 302–304.
- ^ Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan, p.XVI
- ^ "Buddhist and Mongolian Symbols".
- ^ "Symbol of Peace and Eternity, the Nine White Banners". MONTSAME News Agency. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
- ^ Монгол Улсын бүх цэргийн хар сүлдний товч танилцуулга
- ^ "WWW.MEDEELEL.MN". medeelel.mn. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- Boeheim, Wendelin (1890). Handbuch der Waffenkunde: Das Waffenwesen in seiner historischen Entwickelung vom Beginn des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig. [1]
- William Erskine. A history of India under the two first sovereigns of the house of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Pg 265. [2]
- Zdzislaw Zygulski, Ottoman Art in the Service of Empire, Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art & Civilization, New York University Press (1992).
External links
- (in Russian) Бунчук // Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона
- (in Mongolian) Монгол Улсын Төрийн Туг // MongolWiki[permanent dead link]
- (in Ukrainian) Довідник з історії України. За ред. І. Підкови та Р. Шуста. — Київ: Генеза, 1993.
- Jack Weatherford, "Wind", First Year Course on Genghis Khan (macalester.edu 2004)
- Photo reportage, a tribute ceremony to the Great Black Banners, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia