Tsagaan Tug
The tsagaan tug, the white standard, is the ensign of Genghis Khan's lineage that Mongol tradition honours as the sacred symbol of the khagan's authority, kept at the mausoleum complex in Ordos and paraded at the Naadam festival together with the nine black banners. The standard is a spear shaft crowned with a horsehair tuft or a looped top, and its white colour links it to the heavenly realm, the midday sun, and peace, while the nine black standards of the great khan stood for war and the nine tribes of the Mongols. In Mongol belief the tug is an object of reverence in its own right, and the