It's not that Yang Meng doesn't know how to ride a horse------ which of the ancient generals is not a skilled horseman?

Where is the white riding bull? It is because in the era of white horseback riding, there was no saddle and stirrup at that time, and people riding horses were riding 'naked horses'------- relying on grabbing the horse's mane and clamping the horse's belly with their legs to maintain balance, not only riding horses was very tired, but those who were good at horse warfare in that period were all masters in ten thousand!

At that time, the Qin State did not rely on cavalry to unify the six countries, although many horses were needed to fight at that time, they all used carriages----- several horses dragged a cart, and people fought with people in the carts. There were only a few cavalry in the Qin army. This can be seen from the unearthed terracotta warriors.

(Many people will say: according to you, Indians are horse riding masters, and many Indians ride horses without saddles in movies, in fact, the horses in North America were brought by the Spaniards when they colonized the Americas.) However, it is more adapted to the environment over there, and there are many wild horse herds that will appear when they continue to breed. However, when the Spaniards brought their horses with them, they also brought saddles and stirrups to the Americas. Many Indians don't have saddle stirrups, not because they don't know about it, but because they are poor or don't have the technology------ and then PS, the people of the Stars and Stripes have been saying that the ancestors of horses all over the world lived in the Americas, and they have also taken out bone fossils about tens of thousands of years ago as evidence. Anyway, there is only one meaning: the ancestor of the horse is ours, and it became extinct tens of thousands of years ago. In fact, it's some kind of equidae, not a horse in our concept. It's like a warthog and a pig, there's a big difference, okay? It's like the Spaniards say that the ancestors of pandas lived with them.

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

He wanted to get two horses to be put at home for the child to ride, but this proposal was rejected by Long Xixiang------ what should the child do if he falls?

Tsk, what a defeated mother!

However, although Yang Meng can ride, he wants to learn to ride a horse by himself, and he can't rely on the strength of others every time, right?

Yang Meng and the others can be regarded as experiencing the hospitality of the herdsmen in Inner Mongolia: Bu Baicang kept a few people and didn't let them go, Yang Meng and the others didn't sober up for several days------ they were always drunk!

Many people think of Inner Mongolia when they first think of 'roasted whole sheep', in fact, many Inner Mongolian people have never eaten roasted whole sheep, right? Especially the Inner Mongolian people in the city.

The reason for this is simple: it is too expensive.

Generally speaking, if you eat a roasted whole sheep here, a good sheep will cost about 2,000. And the cost of the chef is more than 1,000 yuan, and it costs a few hundred yuan to kill a sheep, and then it is accompanied by wine and food, at least 3,000 yuan to eat one, and it takes a long time to roast one, which is very troublesome. Unless it is a distinguished guest, they will not be so troublesome to bring the roast whole sheep to entertain people------ is not fragrant with the meat?

But if you really want to eat delicious roasted whole sheep, then you still have to go to the pastoral area to eat, where the taste is the purest. If you want to eat roast whole sheep here, it depends on how well you mix with the owner here, ------ good relationship can eat it. Yang Meng also helped him repair his pickup truck, and after Bu Baicang was very grateful, listening to Yang Meng and they said that they hadn't eaten roast whole sheep ------yet?

This is another question: Why are the people of Inner Mongolia so hospitable? It's really not bad for money! People earn more in a month than most people in the city earn in a year!

He said that he was a pediatrician compared to his eldest brother Bu Nayan: his eldest brother was a cattle breeder, and his family now had more than 3,000 cows. The price of a cow is 8,000 yuan。。。。。。

Quan Te is a local tyrant!

And Yang Meng also understands why the herdsmen themselves rarely eat roasted whole sheep: it's too troublesome!

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

The process of killing sheep is also very troublesome: unlike the way of killing sheep in the mainland, the way of killing sheep here is called "grasping the heart": opening a hole in the belly of the sheep, and then putting your hand into it to pinch the heart artery of the sheep, so that the sheep will die in a dozen seconds due to a large amount of blood in the abdominal cavity, which is known as the "most gentle way to die". And all the blood of the sheep is not wasted at all in the belly of the sheep.

This killing sheep is very simple, but the next thing is more troublesome: here people are not wasted at all, the blood of the sheep is poured into the basin is the material for making blood sausage, and the sheepskin is peeled off little by little between the sheepskin and the mutton by the method of 'rolling skin', and finally a whole piece of sheepskin without scars is obtained, and then all the sheep are taken out of the water without waste, and this set of procedures will be less than an hour.

These sheep are good things: fried haggis, haggis soup, only here can you understand the deliciousness of mutton.

Next, it is necessary to marinate: stuff the green onions, ginger slices, peppercorns, cumin, etc. into the belly of the lamb, and then rub the lamb repeatedly with salt to absorb the flavor. Finally, put it into the spice water and marinate it for a few hours, take it out after marinating, fix it in the roast sheep rack after the water is dried, and turn it while roasting。。。。。。

In order to eat this roasted whole sheep, Yang Meng and others waited all day. After roasting, a group of people gathered around and tore it with their hands----- but the moment the roast lamb entered the mouth, all the wait was worth it!

Yang Meng and they lived here in Bubaicang for a week, and their daily life was horseback riding, archery, sheep herding, wrestling, drinking wine, eating meat and drinking milk tea。。。。。。 Watching Longteng every day, their drinking and vomiting has become a daily routine.

It's not that Yang Meng and they want to stay here, it's really that the old couple of Bu Baicang are too enthusiastic: the children are working, living and studying in the city, and they don't come back all year round, and they are reluctant to let them go when they see Yang Meng;

Every year from June to October is the horse racing season in Inner Mongolia, because people here love horses to the soul (including the belly), for them the horse is the real faith, of course, love horses does not mean not to eat, including mare's milk wine, sour mare's milk and horse meat are on the recipes of the people here, those who say that the Mongolian people do not eat horse meat have never been to Inner Mongolia。。。。。。

In Bu Baicang's house Yang Meng they also ate horse meat, but the practice is not the local practice in Inner Mongolia, but the Kazakh nomads like the practice of 'horse intestines', that is, the horse's ribs and meat are sprinkled with condiments and stuffed into the horse intestines and the two ends are rolled tightly and dried, which can be made in more than a month in winter, Bu Baicang said that this is the method that his son told him, and the taste is not bad.

With the progress of society and the development of communications, the lives of herdsmen have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

And those who say that horse meat is rough and chewy, or that horse meat is sour, has never eaten horse meat, which means that it is actually quite similar to donkey meat, almost all of them are lean meat, in fact, Yang Meng thinks that the local roasted way of eating tastes better! Of course, the taste of horse intestines is also superb!

In fact, the largest exporter of horse meat 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 and the first in Asia, and about 900,000 horses are slaughtered and exported every year.

Of course, eating is eaten, selling is sold, and this Mongolian brother loves horses and really loves them.

Every year, Inner Mongolia will hold a large-scale 'International Equestrian Festival', which is bigger, including 'Speed Horse Racing Open', 'Equestrian Endurance Race', 'Show Jumping Championship', 'Polo Open' and thousands of cross-country endurance races with national characteristics, traditional horse training competitions and yard king competitions, etc.

In addition to such international competitions, 11 of the 12 league cities in Inner Mongolia have local horse racing activities every year, and there are countless competitions organized by agricultural and pastoral areas!

In fact, this kind of competition is more like a social interaction. After all, the nearest neighbors here have to drive all the way, and the family usually has to take care of their livestock, and they also have to cut and dry the grass for the winter。。。。。。 So there's relatively little socializing, and this kind of Jockey Club is one of the few social events. Everyone doesn't want to be ranked, just for fun!

However, the locals attach great importance to this activity. Bu Baicang had four sons, and the day before the race had returned, and one of them was driving a big truck. This is the place where the horses are transported------ the place of the competition is not far from Bu Baicang's house, 'only' more than 100 kilometers, and when the horses run over, are their legs straight?

Something interesting: Bu Baicang's child has the surname 'Bai' instead of Bu. This way of calling the surname is actually derived from the Han nationality.

The Mongolian people have always been unaccustomed to having only 'clan' and 'tribe'. This is the case today.

At present, Mongolian names are either directly Mongolian names, such as 'Batu', 'Hulan', 'Siqin Gaowa', and the like; or they are Mongolian and Han surnames, which are the result of Han people's past life or intermarriage; or they are simplified family names, such as Wuliang Ha, which has now become Wu surnames, and Xiao'er Zhijin has become Bao surnames; or they directly use the first sound of their father's name to become their own surname.

The name of the cloth white warehouse should be 'white warehouse', which means 'rich warehouse'. His father's name was 'Burenbayar', so he had the surname Bu. And his child's surname Bai also used this method to name him, and the name of his children's sons is interesting.

His four sons were called 'Hulan Pa Ri', 'Xi Ri Ba Ri', 'Eri Dumba Ri' and 'Nisgeba Ri', which means 'Black Tiger', 'Yellow Tiger', 'Divine Tiger' and 'Flying Tiger', respectively.

Bu Baicang's sons are also very promising: 'Black Tiger' is a middle school teacher in a nearby town, and Yang Meng thought he was teaching physical education, but he turned out to be a mathematics teacher; 'Yellow Tiger' was the technical backbone of the power company; and 'Flying Tiger' was engaged in foreign trade business and traveled in Outer Mongolia all year round.

But whenever they can come back, they will come back to participate in this horse racing festival: even if they are used to city life, this thrill of riding horses on the grassland is not found in city life.

People really compete for fun, and the prize money for the champion of the three competitions is the same: only 1,000 yuan!

Whether the money is enough for fuel is another matter: the big truck carrying horses is enough to make a round trip of more than 200 kilometers on this rough road!

But they don't care------ they're not bad for money anyway, and being happy is more important than anything else.

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

This cloth white warehouse completely convinced Yang Meng and his party!

On the day of the festival, at four o'clock in the morning, everyone gets up and gets busy: preparing the costumes worn by the 'zhuoduga', or 'boxers'. The 'Black Tiger', who is a math teacher, is a well-known 'wrestler' (Mongolian wrestler) in the local area.

The dress of this fighter is very particular, their clothing is evolved from the armor of the ancient samurai: the body should wear 'Zhuo Duge', that is, the short-sleeved shoulders made of cowhide, and the neck should wear 'Zhangga', that is, a collar wrapped with strips of cloth, these strips of cloth are the symbolic strips of cloth for winning previous competitions, looking at the three brothers' 'Zhangga' scared Yang Meng, which was full of strips of cloth, Yang Meng thought that they were the kind of top 'fighters', and the result was ' Yellow Tiger told the truth: when they were children, they would hang a strip of cloth after winning each other。。。。。。

In addition, they wear a red, yellow and blue apron called 'Siribug' on their waist, wide wrestling pants made of white cloth with embroidered patterns called 'banzele', and heavy Mongolian boots, all of which are indispensable for the wrestler's competition.

Bu Baicang took out his treasured Mongolian horn bow, regardless of his age, but he still had to participate in archery and boxing competitions------ of course, the latter was just to join in the fun.

For Bu Baicang, his bow is his most important thing, which is a traditional Mongolian horn bow made by hand----- which is used in archery competitions.

The main material used to make the traditional Mongolian horn bow is wood, and it takes more than 100 processes to process the raw materials to make a bow with birch wood with good elasticity as the bow tire, one side is stained with horns, and the other side is attached to the cow's hoof tendons!

It takes at least a year to make a bow, and two years to make a good bow!

The main reason for the time it takes: glue.

Traditionally, the horn and tendons are glued together with animal glue. This kind of animal glue has good adhesion and strong stretch, and it can also adjust the twisting degree of the bow by heating, but it has a fatal drawback, that is, the time of stable drying is very slow, and then make a corner bow while the animal glue is dry, at least a year!

Such a handmade horn bow is a treasure for Mongolian men!

Although Bu Baicang taught Yang Meng to shoot arrows with a traditional horn bow, it was also made of birch wood and glued to the horns and tendons, but the biggest difference with Bu Baicang's bow was that it used modern glue.

Modern glue is strong enough to dry quickly, but the stretch resistance is far less than that of animal glue, and it cannot be adjusted and twisted by heating, so the Mongolian bow must have a large enough string pad, and must be made into a shape similar to a 'V' shape to 'catch' the bowstring, and the bow arm must also be full of fishing line, which is to strengthen the bow body, and the longbow is still very different from the traditional method of making a long bow.

After the horses were loaded, a group of people drove to the place of the race. By the time they arrived at the place, there were already a lot of cars waiting here for a long time, and some cars were coming one after another.

All off-road vehicles, there are many luxury cars, and they really don't treat luxury cars as things, they can't see their true faces------ who is saying that the herdsmen have no money in the future, Yang Meng is really in a hurry!

BUT YANG MENG IS NOT QUALIFIED TO LAUGH AT THEM: HIS ALL-4-RACING HAS NOW BECOME A 'LUMP OF DIRT'.

There was no venue at the scene, only a few arrow targets. Then the herdsmen met and greeted each other, complimented each other on their horses, and the reunion of old friends was called a warm one.

What is different from Yang Meng's imagination is that there are many young people here, probably all of whom rushed back from all directions with the 'Black Tiger' brothers. But there are not as many girls as imagined, just like Bu Baicang's daughter didn't come, but it's not nothing, some girls are wearing beautiful Mongolian costumes here------ such a party also has a blind date function.

In fact, most of the people who come here are dressed the same as in the mainland. That's why these girls are particularly eye-catching.

Everyone else was chatting, Yang Meng and the strangers were idle and had nothing to do, and Yang Meng was there to study the horses here.

Bu Baicang told Yang Meng that in fact, many herdsmen raise horses not to make money, but to retain the blood of pure Mongolian horses.

The Mongolian horse is ignored by humans, but it is an out-and-out famous horse of the Han Kingdom!

This Mongolian horse is not very tall, it is not good-looking compared to other horse breeds, it has a short body and short legs and a big head, but this thing is too spicy!

The natural conditions in Inner Mongolia, especially in the pastoral areas, are very harsh, and how do people here raise horses? Except for breeding horses and pregnant horses, which are put into indoor stables, other horses are directly placed in the open horse farm: a brick fence is all over the place!

Moreover, this horse is bold, has a good personality, and has amazing endurance, and it is not very fast to run on the field, but it is definitely the best choice to choose a military horse! When the Han State did not cancel the cavalry, it used Mongolian horses as horse breeds used by cavalry, and almost all of the military horses used during the Anti-Japanese War were Mongolian horses.

Mongolian horses also have different classifications because of the different origins of the branches, such as the 'Baicha Horse' on the side of Baichagou in the Zhaowu Dameng because of its mountainous nature, the horses there are good at walking mountain roads, and the texture of their hooves is particularly hard, so they are also called 'Iron Hoof Horses'; the 'Wushen Horse' on the side of the Wushen Banner Desert is much smaller than other Mongolian horses, but it is very drought-tolerant and good at galloping in the desert; and the Mongolian horses here are called Uzhumuqin Horses, which are the largest in Mongolia and have the best endurance. So the horse races here are all endurance races.

Yang Meng looked left and right over there like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and suddenly someone stopped his shoulders from behind and pulled him aside.

"Erzhu, what are you doing?" it was Hu Erzhuo who grabbed Yang Meng.

As a result, Hu Er was stunned but pouted to the side: "Look over there, there are beautiful women!"

Yang Meng said with a disdainful face: "Please, who do you think is not a beauty?"

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

Hu Er was stunned but said to Yang Meng: "Look at that red dresser!

Yang Meng only tilted his head and glanced at it and said, "Dude, don't look for trouble, someone is married!"

"Huh?" Hu Er was stunned and didn't believe Yang Meng's words: "You're not kidding me, are you?"

"What am I teasing you for? Look at the clothes!" Yang Meng said: "People are particular about dressing! You see that the woman's robe is pleated on the shoulders, which is a symbol of a married woman, and unmarried girls generally wear a long skirt with slipping shoulders, which is pleated on the chest. When you see a Mongolian girl wearing a national costume, you can tell if the woman is married by looking at whether the shoulders are pleated or not. ”

Hu Er was stunned and looked at the girl again with a disappointed face: "It's hard to see that a girl who is excited is actually married! Didn't Bu Baicang say that this horse racing festival also has the function of blind date? Why did a married person come too?"

Yang Meng glanced at him and said, "Don't you see that there are still aunts coming, and there are also mothers-in-law who come to pick sons-in-law!"

Hu Er's eyes lit up after hearing this, he picked up the bow that Yang Meng was carrying, and directly reached out to put the bow on the arrow target and pulled a full bow: "My strength is okay, right? Do you say that any mother-in-law will take a fancy to me?"

As a result, before Yang Meng could answer, several girls on the sidelines laughed when they saw his movements.

"Look, look, they're looking at me and laughing!" Hu Er was stunned with excitement.

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

"Huh? Why?"