Ordos

The Ordos plateau lies within the great bend of the Yellow River, a land of pasture, dunes and dry valleys. From the 1460s Mongol groups moved into the Hetao, including the Ordos people who guarded the memorial tents of Chinggis Khan. The white tents and the rituals associated with them came south with their guardians, becoming a centre of Mongol remembrance in the plateau country.