Yang Meng didn’t know how to ride a horse--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Where is Bai Qi's riding cattle? It's because of the time when Bai Qi rode a horse. At that time, there were no saddles and stirrups at all. People rode a "naked horse" - clamping the horse's belly with their legs to maintain balance. Not only was riding a horse very tiring, but those who were good at horse fighting at that time were all masters who were selected from thousands of miles apart!

In that era, Qin did not rely on cavalry to unify the six countries. Although many horses were needed during the battle, they were all used carriages------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Many people will say: According to your statement, Indians are masters of horse riding. Many Indians do not use saddles when they ride horses. In fact, North American horses were brought to the place where the Spanish colonized the Americas. However, they were more adapted to the environment there and continued breeding. However, while the Spanish brought the horses over, they also brought saddles and stirrups to the Americas. Many Indians did not have saddles and stirrups, not because they didn't know this thing, but because they were poor or not.

That technology-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But Yang Mengkong has riding skills but faces this serious problem: that is, there is no horse!

He wanted to put two horses at home for the child to ride, but this proposal was rejected by Longxixiang---What should I do if the child falls to the point? Let's talk about it when the child grows up!

Wow, a loving mother is so defeated by a son!

However, although Yang Meng knows riding skills, he wants to learn riding with himself, and he can't rely on others' strength every time, right? He treats himself as a novice, starts from basic riding and dismounting, and learns riding little by little. Although Bu Baicang is not young, he is really a good teacher, teaching Yang Meng's "three skills for men": wrestling, archery and riding.

Yang Meng and others experienced the hospitality of the Inner Mongolian herdsmen: Bubaicang kept a few people and refused to let them go. Yang Meng and the others did not sober for several days - they were drunk all the time! In order to entertain Yang Meng and the others, Bubaicang specially invited them to eat the legendary "roasted whole lamb"!

Many people think of Inner Mongolia first when they think of "roasted whole lamb". In fact, many Inner Mongolians have never eaten roasted whole lamb, so they are especially in Inner Mongolians.

The reason for this is very simple: it's too expensive.

Generally speaking, if you eat a roasted whole lamb here, one with good quality is about 2,000 yuan. The chef's fee is more than 1,000 yuan, and killing sheep costs a few hundred yuan. With wine and vegetables, eating one is at least 3,000 yuan, and baking one will take a long time to roast one, which is very troublesome. Unless the guests arrive, the people who come here will not be so troublesome to entertain the whole lamb with roasted whole lamb---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But if you really want to eat delicious roasted whole lamb skills? You have to go to the pastoral area to eat. The taste here is the purest. If you want to eat roasted whole lamb here, it depends on how you have a good relationship with the owner here. Yang Meng also helped him repair his pickup truck and Bu Baicang was very grateful. He heard from Yang Meng and the others that he hadn't eaten roasted whole lamb yet? He directly treated their purest roasted whole lamb! He also complained that Yang Meng and the others didn't say it earlier--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is another question: Why are Inner Mongolians so hospitality? It’s really not short of money! They make more money in a month than most people in cities in a year!

Bu Baicang is still very modest. He said that compared with his elder brother Bu Naiyan, he is a pediatric department: his elder brother raises cattle, and now his family has more than 3,000 cows. The price of a cow is 8,000 yuan...

All are rich!

Yang Meng also understood why herders rarely eat roasted whole sheep: it was really troublesome!

The sheep used to eat roasted whole lamb should not be too big or too small. It is the most delicious roasted lamb that is half a year old.

The process of killing sheep is also very troublesome: unlike the way to kill sheep in the mainland to "smear the neck", the way to kill sheep here is called the "heart-clearing method": open a hole in the sheep's belly, then put your hand into it and pinch the sheep's cardiac blood vessels, so that the sheep will die in more than ten seconds due to a large amount of blood in the abdominal cavity, and it is known as the "the gentlest way to die". Moreover, all the sheep's blood is not wasted at all in the sheep's belly.

Killing sheep is very simple, but the next thing is more troublesome: people here do not waste any waste. The sheep blood is poured into the basin. The sheep's skin is made of blood sausage. The "rolling" method is used to peel off the sheep skin bit by bit between the sheep skin and the mutton, and finally get a whole piece of sheep skin without scars. Then take out all the sheep into the water without wasting any waste. This set of procedures will take less than an hour.

These lambs are good things to eat in water: fried lambs and lambs soup. Only here can you understand the deliciousness of lamb.

Next, marinate: stuff the scallion slices, ginger slices, pepper and so on the abdomen of the lamb, and then rub it repeatedly on the lamb with salt to make the taste. You need to cut it into the place where there is too much meat such as lamb legs to make it easier to make the taste. Finally, put it in the prepared spice water and marinate for a few hours. After marinating, take it out and dry the water and fix it in the roasted lamb rack to roast it. Roast and turn it while it is roasted. When it is 60 or 70 years old, you have to apply a knife to brush oil...

In order to eat the roasted lamb, Yang Meng and others waited all day long. After the roasting, a group of people gathered around and ate it with their hands--but the moment the roasted lamb entered their mouths, all the waiting was worth it!

Yang Meng and his friends stayed in Bubaicang for a week. Their daily lives were riding horses, shooting archery, herding sheep, falling, drinking, eating meat and drinking milk tea... Watching Longteng and his friends drink and vomit every day became a daily routine.

It’s not that Yang Meng and the others want to stay here, but the old couple of Bu Baicang are so enthusiastic: their children are working, living and studying in the city, and they don’t come back all year round. When they see Yang Meng and the others, they are reluctant to let them go; another reason is that the local horse racing festival will be held soon, and Bu Baicang will take them to watch the fun.

June to October every year is the horse racing season in Inner Mongolia. Because people here love horses to their souls (also in their belly), horses are the true beliefs for them. Of course, loving horses does not mean not eating them. Including horse milk wine, sour horse milk and horse meat are all in the recipes here. Those who say that Mongolians do not eat horse meat have never been to Inner Mongolia...

Yang Meng and the others also ate horse meat at the Bubaicang family. However, the method is not the local method in Inner Mongolia, but the method that Kazakh nomads like to make "horse intestines". It is the method of sprinkling the horse's rib meat with seasonings and stuffing it into the horse's intestines tightly and drying. It can be made in more than a month in winter. Bubaicang said that this was the method his son told him, and it tasted pretty good.

With the progress of society and the development of communications, the lives of herders have also undergone earth-shaking changes. There are many people like Bubaicang who have a complete range of houses and various home appliances to drive out.

Those who say that horse meat is rough and chewy or that horse meat is sour have never eaten horse meat at first glance. This thing actually tastes quite similar to donkey meat, almost all of them are lean meat. In fact, Yang Meng thinks that the local roasted food tastes better! Of course, the taste of horse sausage is also the best!

In fact, the largest horse meat exporter in Asia is the Han country, and most of the horse meat is exported from Inner Mongolia. The Han country now has the second largest horse stock in the world in Asia. About 900,000 horses are slaughtered and exported every year. Where did those horse meat come from? Did it fall from the sky?

Of course, if you eat, you can sell it. These Mongolian brothers love horses.

Every year, Inner Mongolia holds a large-scale "International Equestrian Festival", which is too big, including the "Speed ​​Horse Racing Open", the "Equestrian Endurance Championship", the "Polkao Open", and thousands of off-road endurance races with national characteristics, traditional horse training competitions and the Code King Championship, etc.

In addition to such international competitions, eleven of the twelve leagues and cities in Inner Mongolia have local horse racing every year, and there are countless competitions organized by the rural and pastoral areas!

In fact, this kind of competition is more like a kind of social interaction. After all, the neighbors nearest here have to run far away, and the family usually has to take care of their own livestock, and also mow grass and dry hay to prepare for winter... So there is relatively few social interactions here, and such a horse racing club is one of the few social activities. Everyone doesn’t want to be ranked, just for fun!

However, the locals attached great importance to this activity. Bubaicang had four sons, and three came back the day before the competition, one of them was driving a large truck. This was the horse transporter. The competition was not far from Bubaicang's house, and it was only more than 100 kilometers away. Wait for the horse to run over? The legs were all running straight?

Let me say something interesting: the child in Bubaicang's surname is "Bai" instead of Bu's surname. This method of name given by a surname is actually obtained from the Han people.

The Mongolians have always been not used to having only the "clan" and "tribe". Today, they are also used to this.

The names of Mongolian people nowadays are either Mongolian names, such as ‘Batu’, ‘Hulan’, ‘Siqingaowa’, etc.; or the names of Mongolian people’s surnames are the result of their past life or intermarriage; or the names of family names are simplified, such as the Urianha family, which now becomes the Wu surname, and the Borjijin family becomes the Bao surname; or they directly use the first pronunciation of their father’s name to become their own surname.

The name of Bubaicang should be "Baicang", which means "Fujian". His father was called "Birenbayar", so he had the surname Bu. His child's surname Bai also used this method to name his name, and his sons were very interesting.

His four sons are called "Hulanbari", "Xirubari", "Eridumbari" and "Nisgebari", which means "black tiger", "yellow tiger", "shen tiger" and "flying tiger". Except for the "shen tiger" who lives in a foreign country, the other three sons have returned coefficients.

Bubaicang's sons are also very promising: "Heihu" is a middle school teacher in a nearby town. Looking at his body shape, Yang Meng thought he was teaching sports, but he ended up being a math teacher; "Huanghu" is the technical backbone of the power company; "Flyinghu" is engaged in foreign trade business and wanders in Outer Mongolia all year round.

But as long as they can come back, they will come back to participate in this horse racing festival: even if they are used to urban life, the pleasure of riding horses on the grasslands cannot be obtained in urban life.

The competition is really for fun. The championship prizes in the three competitions are the same: only one thousand yuan!

Whether this money is enough for fuel costs is another matter: their big trucks transporting horses are enough to travel more than 200 kilometers on this rugged road!

But they don't care-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

However, thanks to the blessing of the Horse Racing Festival, Yang Meng and others finally did not get drunk one night...

Bu Baicang completely convinced Yang Meng and her group!

On the day of the Horse Racing Festival, everyone got up at four o'clock in the morning to work hard: preparing for the "Zhuoduge", which is the clothing worn by "Bokes". The "Bokes" who is a math teacher is a famous "Bokes" (Mongolian wrestler).

The dress of the buke hands is very particular. Their clothes evolved from the armor of ancient warriors: they had to wear "Zhuoduge", which is a short-sleeved vest made of cowhide; they had to wear "Zhangga" around their necks, which were collars wrapped around them. These cloth strips were symbolic of winning previous competitions. Looking at the "Zhangga" of the three brothers, Yang Meng was scared, and there were a full cloth strip on them. Yang Meng thought they were the top buke hands. As a result, the "Huanghu" told the truth: when they broke each other and won each other when they were young, they would hang a cloth strip...

In addition, you should wear a red, yellow and blue apron on your waist, which is called "Silibug"; wide wrestling pants made of embroidered patterns are called "Banzele", and then step on heavy Mongolian boots. When fighting, these equipment is indispensable.

Bubaicang took out his treasured Mongolian horn bow. Although he was old, he still had to participate in archery and fight competitions--of course, the latter was just joining in the fun.

For Bubaikura, his bow is his most important thing, which is a purely handmade traditional Mongolian horn bow - such archery competitions use traditional horn bows.

The main material used to make traditional Mongolian horn bows is wood. Choose elastic birch wood as the bow tire, with one side stained with cow horns and the other side covered with cow tendons. It takes more than a hundred processes from processing raw materials to making a bow!

It’s okay to say that the process is complicated, but the key is that it takes a lot of time! It takes at least one year to make a bow, but if you make a good bow, it takes two years!

The main reason for the duration of use is: glue.

Traditional horn bows require animal glue to bond the horns and horn tendons on them. This animal glue has good adhesion and strong stretchability, and can also adjust the degree of twisting of the bow by heating. However, it has a fatal disadvantage, which is that the stable drying time is very slow. When the animal glue is dry, make a handy horn bow? At least one year!

Such handmade horn bows are all treasures for Mongolian men!

Although the traditional horn bow was used when Bubaicang taught Yang Meng to shoot archery, and the horns and tendons were also used as birch wood bows, the biggest difference between it and Bubaicang's bow is that it uses modern glue.

Modern glue is strong and dry enough, but its tensile resistance is far less than that of animal glue, and it cannot be adjusted and twisted by heating. Therefore, the Mongolian bow made must have a large enough string mat, and must be made into a shape similar to the ‘v’ shape to ‘catch’ the bow string. In addition, the bow arm must also be full of fishing lines, which is to strengthen the bow body, and there is still a big difference between making a longbow using traditional methods.

After the horse loaded the car, a group of people drove to the competition location in a rush. By the time they arrived, there were already many cars waiting here for a long time, and some cars came one after another.

There are all kinds of off-road vehicles, and there are many luxury cars, and they really don’t regard luxury cars as things. They can’t tell the true face of each one.----------Who will say that the herdsmen have no money in the future, Yang Meng is really anxious!

But Yang Meng is not qualified to laugh at them: his all-4-racing has now become a "mud lump".

There was no venue at the scene, only a few targets were erected. Then the herdsmen greeted each other and praised each other's horses. The old friends reunite with each other's enthusiasm.

What is different from Yang Meng's imagination is that there are many young people here, probably from all directions like the "Black Tiger" brothers. However, the girls are not as many as they imagined. This is the same as Bu Baicang's daughter who didn't come, but it is not without them. Some girls are wearing beautiful Mongolian costumes here----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In fact, most people who come here dress the same as those in the mainland, so these girls are particularly eye-catching.

Others were chatting, Yang Meng was having nothing to do, and Yang Meng was studying the horses here.

Bubaicang told Yang Meng that in fact, many herders do not raise horses to make money, but to preserve the bloodline of pure Mongolian horses.

A Mongolian horse is ignored by humans, but it is an unbiased famous horse in the Han Dynasty!

This Mongolian horse is not tall and looks bad compared to other horse breeds. It has short body, short legs and a big head, but this thing is so stingy!

Inner Mongolia, especially in pastoral areas, the natural conditions are very harsh, and how do people raise horses here? In addition to planting horses, pregnant horses will be placed in indoor stables, and other horses will be placed directly in the open-air horse farm: just wrap a wall with bricks!

Moreover, this horse is bold and has great character and amazing endurance. It is not fast to put it on the field, but choosing a military horse is definitely the best choice! When the Han Dynasty did not cancel the cavalry, it used Mongolian horses as the breed for cavalry. Almost all military horses used during the War of Resistance Against Japan were Mongolian horses. There was once a Japanese soldier pretending to be Han soldiers to conduct a raid, but because the investigators suspected that the raid was aborted by the raid.

Mongolian horses have different categories due to different origins of branches. For example, the "Baicha Horse" on the Baichagou of Zhaowuda League is mountainous because of the mountainous reasons. The horses there are good at walking on mountain roads and their hooves are particularly hard, so they are called "Iron Hoof Horse". The "Wushen Horse" on the Wushen Banner Desert is much smaller than other Mongolian horses, but they are very drought-resistant and good at galloping in the desert; the Mongolian horses here are called Wujumuqin horses, which are the largest in Mongolian Mali and have the best endurance. Therefore, the horse racing competitions here are endurance races.

Yang Meng looked left and right like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden. Suddenly someone stopped his shoulder from behind and pulled him aside.

"Erlangzi, what are you doing?" Hu Erlang was holding Yang Meng.

As a result, Hu Erlang pouted to one side: "Look at there, there are beautiful women!"

Yang Meng said with disdain, "Please, who is not a beauty?"

The appearance of Mongolians is slightly different from that of Han people. Because the wind on the grasslands is strong, Mongolians are used to squinting their eyes in their long nomadic life, so Mongolians have long and thin eyes. In addition, the apple muscles on their faces make their faces look particularly round and full, but the side effect is that their cheekbones will be high. Therefore, most Mongolians have large and round faces. Moreover, due to the living environment, women in pastoral areas look worse than those in cities due to maintenance and other problems. So... it is indeed a bit difficult to see a heart-warming beauty in pastoral areas.

Hu Erlang said to Yang Meng: "Look at the one in red! How beautiful is it?"

Yang Meng only tilted her head and looked at it, "Brother, don't make trouble, they are getting married!"

"Ah?" Hu Erlang didn't believe Yang Meng's words: "Aren't you teasing me?"

"What am I teasing you? Look at the clothes!" Yang Meng said: "There are people who wear clothes with pleated clothes! Look at the shoulders of the woman with pleated shoulders, which is a symbol of married women. Unmarried girls usually wear long sloping skirts, which are pleated on the front chest. When they see Mongolian girls wearing ethnic clothing, you can tell whether the shoulders are pleated to tell whether the woman is married."

After hearing this, Hu Erling looked disappointed after looking at the girl: "I finally saw a girl who was moved and was actually married! Didn't Bu Baicang say that this horse racing festival has the function of blind dates? Why are married people coming too?"

Yang Meng gave him a blank look and said, "Didn't you see any auntie come? There are also mother-in-laws who come to choose a son-in-law!"

Hu Erling's eyes lit up after hearing this. He picked up the bow that Yang Meng brought, and directly reached out to put the bow on the target and pulled a full bow: "Is this power okay? Do you think any mother-in-law will fall in love with me?"

As a result, before Yang Meng answered, the girls watching laughed when they saw his movements.

"Look, they are smiling at me!" Hu Erlang looked excited.

Yang Meng sighed: "Brother, put away the bow, they are laughing at you!"
Chapter completed!