Мongolian monument in chinese

[Sartuul]

Mongolian Empire Gallery, National Museum of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.

[abcdefg]

I've been to that museum, but I don't understand your question.

[honglam]

It is a separated field of study to read many sculptures written in Chinese from the Yuan Dynasty actually, since the "Chinese" used by many Mongolians was actually a mixture of Chinese and Mongolian - The vocabulary is more Chinese, but the syntax seems to be Mongolian-styled. It's a special linguistic phenomenon of Yuan Dynasty. After the end of Yuan, when the aristocrats of Mongol retreat to the Mongolian Grassland, this phenomenon soon disappeared since there became no need to use Chinese at all - they were not reigning the Han people then.

[geordanson503]

interesting, although i can't read the stone tablet

 

i appreciate that the mongols were so open minded in understanding other peoples systems and practices despite their often fearsome reputation

[honglam]

I thoroughly observed this picture. I think the Chinese part is written by Chinese officials under Mongke Khagan's reign, because I found these are "Natural Classical Written Chinese". The majority of Mongolian officials in this era could not use Classic Chinese so well.