千百年来,蒙古族随畜迁徙,逐水草而居。这种看起来随意的浪漫生活,实则是最严苛的自然生态规律,人与牲畜的生息繁衍、流动迁徙、行为生活都必须遵循草原的生存法则,并由此形成相对固定的游牧线路和游牧圈。今天,鄂尔多斯高原以北的广袤地区被称为“蒙古草原”。作为中国古代游牧民族的代表,蒙古人的“游牧”方式一直是草原民族最基本的生活方式。有史书记载的蒙古族见于公元七世纪的《旧唐书·北狄传》,是起源于额尔古纳河流域的北方游牧部落。13世纪初,部落英雄成吉思汗及其子孙实现了亚欧大陆历史上最大范围的统一,“蒙古”从一个部落名称成为一个 For thousands of years, Mongolian migrate with animals and live haphazardly. This seemingly random romantic life is actually the most stringent natural ecological law. The livelihood and multiplication of people and livestock, migratory migration and behavioral life must follow the law of survival of grasslands and form relatively fixed nomadic lines and nomadic pastures ring. Today, the vast area north of the Ordos Plateau is known as the “Mongolian steppe.” As the representative of nomadic people in ancient China, the Mongolian “nomadic” way has always been the most basic way of life for the steppe people. Historical records of the Mongolian found in the seventh century AD “Old Tang Di Beidi” is originated in the northern Ergun River nomadic tribes. At the beginning of the 13th century, the heroic tribe of Genghis Khan and his descendants achieved the largest unification in the history of Asia and Europe, and “Mongolia” became one from the name of a tribe