More than a decade ago, there was a short stay in the grasslands of Damshang, that glimpse left an extremely deep impression. With the growth of age, a lot of expectations gradually fade away, but the grassland obsession remains unchanged.
August 4, I and my friends and a group of nineteen people group to go to Inner Mongolia Xilamuren Prairie, thinking about and dream of the prairie to a close embrace, the heart is incredibly excited.
17:40 airplane, delayed to nearly 19:00 before taking off, but did not expect to encounter the most beautiful clouds. Some of them are like hills and mountains, some are like calm lakes, and some are like waves, and the clouds in the sunset have a more charming beauty, we are all excited to marvel at the delayed airplane has long been thrown into the clouds. I'm not sure I can capture the beauty of that.
It's already past 22:00 when we arrived in Hohhot, which is the Mongolian word for "green city," and the residents here go out late and come home early, and the stores basically close around 21:00, so the streets are very quiet. The Mongolian characters in the neon lights look a lot like lamb kebabs, don't they?
It's almost 12:00 in the morning when I'm in bed, and I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you can get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.
Early the next morning, we set off to the Xilamuren grassland. Xilamuren grassland is located in the city of Baotou Darhan Maomingan Union flag, is a typical sandy grassland. Hilamuren Mongolian language for "yellow river", also known as "call river". The tour guide said, sparse wooden people to go to the grassland, called the Hillamuren. Haha with this proverb, finally remembered the name. In fact, go to a very large number of people.
All the way through the Yinshan mountain range, where the mountains are bare, no Jiangnan green mountains and green water. But the tycoons are all smart people, hair is not much, the waist bag bulging, as here in the Yinshan Mountain, do not look at him a poor look, but the bottom is rich in iron ore, rare earth resources.
Looking at the boundless Yinshan Mountain range, remembered Wang Changling's "out of the plug": the Qin time bright moon Han time off, 10,000 miles long march people have not yet. But make the Dragon City will fly in, do not teach Hu Ma Du Yinshan. I can't help but feel a sense of bravado in my heart.
Arrived at the grasslands of the first program, is to watch the "Desert South Legend", the play reproduces the Genghis Khan era of the Mongolian people in the grasslands to grow, strengthen, gallop on the frontier, and build a heroic picture.
Under the hot sun, a grassland horseback nation jumped onto the stage of history, galloping toward us, in the sound of hoofbeats, bow and arrow sound cast a shocking historical scenes. When the program was coming to an end, it was raining heavily, but the actors still did their best to perform the whole show. At the end of the show, all the actors rode on horseback, braving the rain in front of the audience bowed and bowed, did not leave for a long time, the audience rang a burst of warm applause. In front of these brawny men, I really felt the Mongolian spirit.
A lot of people don't like to watch the show, thinking there is nothing fancy. But I like to see the local specialties of every place I visit, because he condenses the local customs and traditions, and is the best window to understand the local culture and landscape.
Eating a good meal, the rain is still falling, the heart can not help but a little anxious up. The grassland rarely rains, but let us catch up, wind and rain to meet the nobleman, so think, the heart and released.
As soon as the rain stopped, we drove deeper into the grassland. Along the way, did not see cows and sheep, the guide told us that the pasture is now contracted to households, which a pasture grass grows well, the government will have subsidies. Once raised cattle and sheep, pasture grass will be eaten up, they can not get subsidies, so the herdsmen to raise grass on the line. It seems that the landscape of "wind-blown grass low now cattle and sheep" is no longer difficult to see.
In the car, the guide taught us greetings "hello", in Mongolian read "three white promise", the girl called Qiqige, we are excited to learn. After getting off the bus, we greeted the beautiful Qiqiqi, listening to everyone's broken Mongolian, each making fun of the fun.
When you enter the yurt, your feet can't step on the doorway, and you can't take pictures after you enter the yurt. Directly opposite the door is the portrait of Genghis Khan, everyone went in to the portrait of bowing low, indicating that Genghis Khan in the minds of the Mongolian people in a very high position.
There are no schools or hospitals on the steppe, so how do you get sick? Qiqiqi for us to explain the ancient treatment of Mongolians, the coarse salt fried hot, put a few slices of ginger and garlic, held in a silver bowl, with a piece of gauze covered, in the navel (Shen Que point), elbow nest, popliteal fossa of these five non-stop rolling, you can drain the dampness and remove the toxins. Qiqi Ge with a silver comb to my large vertebrae scraping, scraping, sealing with the method just now, not afraid of the rain and wind. Really quite magical it!
It is said that this year is the best year of grass growth in recent years, the grassland after the rain is particularly fresh, green grass, grass scent burst, stretching grassland, far, open. A few yurts scattered in the grassland, three or five sheep in the yurt side of the leisurely eating grass, this is the only grassland to see a few sheep. The only thing I've seen in the past is a few sheep. Strolling in the grassland, I was in a great mood, but I didn't have time to express my feelings, and the guide was urging us to hurry to the next stop.
One of the things you want to do on the grasslands is to gallop your horse. Think of the "Pearl Grid" sung in: let us be companions, live in style, horse galloping *** enjoy the prosperity of the world, the wine when the song sung out of the heart of joy. The feeling of surging excitement came to life.
Riding on the back of the horse, not yet sat steady, the horse trotted up, I could not help but a scream, the horse master loudly rebuked: "Do not call do not call, you will scare the horse." It is clear that the horse scared me, okay?
The horse walked slowly for a while, and I told the owner: "Can you run? This is too boring."
The owner of the horse said: "You have not yet mastered the technical aspects, and you want to run?" I said: "Then you teach me ah." He did not say anything again.
I remembered the guide taught, with a foot on the horse belly point is a gear, point two is the second gear, point three is the third gear. I then used my foot to point a bit, the horse began to trot up, that horse owner and yelled, and then rode to stop the front, girlfriends scared even dare not say, afraid of frightening the horse.
I hold my tongue and follow behind, see a photo over, I can not help but get excited again, shouting to him: "Quickly give me a picture." Then one hand raised up to pose for PS.
"What are you doing what? Quickly put your hand down!" The furious voice of the horse's owner came from beside me. I said furiously: "What's wrong with raising a hand for a photo?"
He said: "can not raise his hand, the horse ran how to do?" Good gas oh, how all is not the bridge I imagined? Hey, said the horse galloped *** enjoy the prosperity of the world it? How to become spend money to be scolded.
But riding on the back of a horse to see the scenery, and stand on the ground to see is not the same, the vast grassland can not see the edge of the feeling of the strong mountains and rivers, that kind of feeling of the source of the long flow, so I feel that I followed the tall and mighty up. The grasses surrounded by fences are particularly lush, the flowers are swaying gently, and there are people picking mushrooms in them.
On the way, I saw an Ovoo, which is a pile of stones and earth with a blue hata hanging from it. We are surrounded by Ovoo, silent wish.
When we arrived at a herdsman's house, the owner of the horse asked us to dismount and take a break to drink a bowl of milk tea. He helped me down while saying: "Such a beautiful girl, go drink milk tea!" Well, just for his words, I forgive him.
The evening was a unique Mongolian feast - the fraudulent horse feast. Fraudulent horses, which are whole animals with their hair retired, began in the Yuan Dynasty, more than 700 years ago. The hall was splendid, and we all changed into Mongolian national costumes and sat on two sides. In the herdsmen's songs and dances, a feast for the palate began.
When the song and dance came to an end, the host asked if anyone would like to order a song. Of course you have to pay to order a song. There was no air conditioning in the room, and everyone was so hot that they didn't have the heart to order a song. Seeing that no one responded, the host pulled down his face and said, "Then you'll eat it in the cold." A twisted body walked out.
Yelp, this is my imagination of the hospitality of the herdsmen?
During the day, Qiqige jokingly said to us, listening to the old people say, you Han people are the most cunning, our nation is a nation of faith, we are not afraid of bloodshed and tears, but afraid of the pitfalls and deception. But when did this nation become so realistic?
The original grassland, attracting a large number of tourists to watch, the entire grassland economy is driven up, gradually, the herdsmen are no longer grazing, a variety of wonderful ethnic activities to replace the pure and simple grazing labor. The yurt has been improved, inside the air conditioning TV bathroom, but the initial attraction of the tourists that part of the simplicity and the original natural landscape is no longer.
Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on ourselves, and use other people's lives to fulfill our poems and faraway places, they also need to get better and better life. But when everything to make more money for the purpose of forgetting the original intention, consumed the original trust and accumulation, slowly will also become nothing.
But the world is full of people who are not afraid.
One day I will step on the prairie, I y love this land. Passed down the portrait of Genghis Khan, there is no point to kill the gas, but like a neighboring grandfather, but more people respect, I believe that the Mongolian herdsman's heart will one day return to the calm and serenity.