Study On Ethnobotany Of The Mongolians Of Zhalaite Banner, Inner Mongolia

The paper according to Zhalaite Banner and local mongolian, as ther research object. And using researched literature, interview survey, colected voucher specimen and so on. It has analyzed local Mongolian folk botanical nomenclature and the using of the traditional knowledge of wild plants, providing theoretical basis for the inheritance and development of the local Mongolian traditional plant knowledge. Here is the result of the study as follows:There are 154 folk using plants names, which belong to 129 species and 1 subspecie 7varieties, and 33names composed of a single Mongolian word plants,77combined of Mongolian phrases and compound,44 belonged to borrowing name. An obvious characteristic is there are many vocabulary borrowed from Chinese while calling plants in local,accounting for 28.57% of the folk plants names, which reflects the influence of developing process of cultural exchange between the Han nationality and the Mongolian. The Mongolian, in Zhalaite Banner, use folk name for plants with its own unique structure, type, and basis.The local herdsmen understand plant species with the rank of families, genera and species, the level to understand is different.On the aspect of the Zhalaite's utilizing plants,there are 30 species of folk wild edible plants, recording to the survey,which the plants used for grain have 1 specie, wild vegetable plants have 15 species, wild fruit plants have 11 species, the plants used for tea have 4 species, use for spice have 1 specie. What singled out especially is tea experience of Scutellaria scordifolia and Taraxacum mongolicum, which none of literature has been reported so far.After investigation found zhalaite Mongolian folk medicinal plant 45 species and 1 variety 1 subspecie, private veterinary drugs with 7 species plants, folk forage plant has 90 species and 6 varieties, building and process with 11 species and 1 variety, folk firewood with 5 species plants, folk culture with 1 specie, folk commodity plant with 11 species and 1 subspecie, also recorded the 5 species poisonous plants. Zhalaite mongolian use endemic plant species in the method of using.The local herdsmen still dispute for some plants use, like Rosa davurica and Quercus mongolica. So the further investigation is demanded for confirmingThe local herdsmen are surveyed primarily for plant knowledge and the issues of how to inherit experience.In term of age stage for analysis, this paper analyzes the local Mongolian nomads to understand the status of the traditional knowledge of plants, the the older generation account for more quantity of people who know key message of traditional botanical knowledge than younger, and richer in the content. With the local economy and science developing rapidly, in recent year, and modern knowledge impacting on the traditional knowledge, people have mostly ignored the protection and inheriting of traditional plant knowledge, and the ecological balance is faced with a great threat.For the inheritance of knowledge of the local traditional plants and ecological environment, some feasible measures are put forward. In Zhalaite Banner,such research has not been conducted yet, hence it is great significant for the local people's knowing, utilizing, protecting paper and inheriting traditional knowledge. And those will do the foreshaddowing for future job.