Ordos wedding ceremony can be traced back to ancient Mongolia and took shape in the Yuan Dynasty. With relatively complete wedding procedures kept till now, the ceremony has graduallyevolved as a standardized folk cultural phenomenon in the form of songs and dances reflecting local customs.

Ordos wedding ceremony includes a series ofspecific procedures and activities such as entering into an engagement with hada, marrying the bride with a bow, meeting the bridegroom at the gate, offering a sheep and toast, asking names and birth dates, cutting the sheep's neck, combing hair for marriage, Mother's blessings, scrambling for hats, ablution with sacred water, falling down before the father-in-law and mother-in-law, revealing the bride's veil, bride's offering tea to parents and going back to the bride's home. The wedding ceremony, with happiness, luckiness, love and passion as themes running through the whole process, displays the charm of the ethnic minority, expresses people's best wishes towards happy lives and embodies profound cultural connotation.

The procedures and activities constitute the most appealing and magnificent part with the most distinctive features in Mongolian wedding ceremonies. They represent the bestof Mongolian customs and rites, becoming the most intact picture scroll with the richest contents displaying Mongolian style.