◎ 敖包 áobāo

[heaps of stones used by the Mongolians and Tibetans as markings for roads or boundaries] 原是蒙古族人做路標和界標的堆子,用石、土、草等堆積而成。舊時夏秋兩季曾把敖包當做神靈的住地來祭祀,尤以秋季最爲隆重。也作“鄂博”