The wind blows the grass low to see cattle and sheep." Here, "under the Yinshan Mountain" refers to Hohhot.
"The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields."
"The sky is like a dome, covering all the fields." "The sky is like a dome, covering all the fields." "The sky is like a dome, covering all the fields." This is my imaginary Hohhot, there is the "border city", "
Desert smoke straight, the Yangtze River sunset round" and so on.
Today, I arrived in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, in the midst of imagining and analyzing the famous poem of the Northern and Southern Dynasties! From the homework I did before coming here, I learned that Hohhot is a Mongolian
language, which means green city in Chinese. In the 16th century A.D., the local royal residence and
private houses were often made of green bricks, and when you look at it from afar, it is a green color, so it is called "Green City".
So, when the plane reached Hohhot over the sky, I try to look down from the plane's porthole
, hoping to see the legendary green. But as far as the eye could see, I didn't
see the color cyan, but mostly emerald green. What was the reason for this? With questions in mind, I
got off the plane.
Just after getting off the plane, I felt the clear sky of Inner Mongolia. People say that the sky in Inner Mongolia
Gu is almost cloudless, is it true? I looked up and wow! The sky was
blue, with only a few cotton-like white clouds floating, as if a blue sea, the sea
surface from time to time floated past a few small white sailboats. The sun is shining directly down, bright and dazzling, so
people can not open their eyes. The air in Hohhot is also particularly fresh, indulge in a deep breath,
as if you can feel the aroma of grass (but I wonder if this is a psychological effect because I am thinking about the big
grassland? Hehehe.)
But other than that, Hohhot was not at all what I had imagined. The Inner Mongolia I "saw" in the text was a lush, green, blue, not-so-vast city on the edge of Serbia
, where people wore fluttering clothes and rode horses across the endless grasslands. But the Hohhot in front of me is completely different from what I imagined,
Walking on the streets of Hohhot, at a glance, I can hardly tell the difference between it and the Guangzhou
state where I live: the same spacious and atmospheric road, the same traffic, the same clean and tidy
streets and rivers, the same tall buildings, the same fashionable and avant-garde citizens, The same
Starbucks, Shangshima Coffee and other famous stores and restaurants ------ I really came to Inner Mongolia
? I couldn't help but wonder a little.
Discussing with my mom, she said that after so many years of development, Inner Mongolia has long since ceased to be the way poets
write about it. Inner Mongolia is now the country's fastest growing region, Inner Mongolia
Erdos is China's fastest growing city, as the capital of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot
The city will not lag behind! Oh, no wonder I couldn't see the "green"
shadow of Qingcheng from the airplane! It turns out that most of the old green buildings have been replaced by newer skyscrapers, or maybe the newer skyscrapers outnumber the old green ones by a wide margin?
However, on closer inspection, Hohhot, as a city in Inner Mongolia, has maintained many
mongolian characteristics. For example, every store sign or signboard in Hohhot is in Mongolian
Chinese, with Mongolian on the top (Mongolian is interesting in that the shape of the characters is a bit like a mutton kebab
, and its unique shape is just enough for us to be able to easily distinguish it from other scripts
), Chinese in the middle, and English underneath in some cases. For example, in modern
buildings, there is always an old-fashioned building with a round yurt roof with the iconic
Genghis Khan flag on top, and the walls decorated with eagle or horse motifs; for example,
some modern buildings still choose to have green roofs or green facades, too... ...
It is said that nowadays in Inner Mongolia, Han Chinese have accounted for 80% of the population, and Mongolians only 12%
, with a few other nationalities. So walking down the streets of Hohhot, guessing which
Mongolians and which are Han Chinese, has become one of the great joys of my travels.
My trip to Inner Mongolia was meant to be a horseback ride on the grasslands and a camel ride in the desert.
But I couldn't connect the modern city of Hohhot with the grasslands and the desert
. Hohhot, a lost city, brought me a great shock at the beginning,
What other surprises will it bring me? I look forward to ......