"Kazakhstan's economy is dominated by oil, natural gas, mining, coal, agriculture and animal husbandry, while the processing industry and light industry are relatively backward, and most of the daily consumer goods rely on imports. ”

"The Kazakh diet is characterized by a strong nomadic life, with milk and meat being the main foods of daily life, pasta being a secondary food, and rarely eating vegetables. ”

"The main meats are sheep, goat, beef, horse meat, and camel meat, and the habits are basically the same as in Europe, and the most commonly drunk drinks are milk tea and mare's milk. ”

"The most common is to eat hand-grasped mutton, the practice is to cut the lamb with bones into large pieces, together with the sheep's head, belly, heart, liver, lungs, etc., put into an iron pot with water and boil. ”

"After the water boils, sprinkle off the foam, add an appropriate amount of salt, and then simmer it, and when cooked, cut the meat into small pieces, grasp it with your hands and eat it, and each person can add the salt powder at any time according to his personal taste. ”

"The barbecue is mainly eaten for entertaining guests and hunting, and after the arrival of the guests, the Kazakhs slaughter the fat sheep, remove their internal organs and roast the whole sheep over a fire. ”

"In pastoral areas, there are many types of dairy products of the Kazakh ethnic group, such as milk lumps, milk skins, cheese, ghee, etc. ”

"When you come to Kazakhstan, I haven't entertained you for dinner, but when it comes to Kazakh food, I think it will be more direct to take you to the herdsmen's homes and taste the food they make with their own hands. ”

"Let's go, everybody get in the car, and I'll take you to an old friend's house of mine. ”

Zhou Sen followed Xu Changming into the car, for the Kazakh eating habits, he has heard Xu Changming just introduced some, Zhou Sen interviewed Mongolian herdsmen, understand some nomadic eating habits.

Outside the yurt, Zhou Sen used to sit with the herdsmen and eat the roasted whole sheep together, while watching the herdsmen sing and dance, although the conditions were a little hard, but still very happy.

Zhou Sen's experience is that happiness sometimes really has nothing to do with money, even if life is very hard, there is still simple and simple happiness.

The car drove for an hour before arriving at the destination, Xu Changming took Zhou Sen into a local herdsman's house, and greeted the owner warmly from afar.

"Bayi, old friend, I brought a new friend to your house as a guest, and I didn't greet you beforehand, I don't know if it's convenient for you?"

"It's Mr. Xu, long time no see, you're really a busy person, you haven't been here for a long time, I like the Chinese tea you brought me last time, your friend, it's my friend, please come in, you're welcome!"

"Although our family is not wealthy, there is still food for entertaining guests!"

"Hahaha, I knew you were a friend enough, and I liked your generous, warm and hospitable character!"

"Come, let me introduce to you, this is a journalist from China, his name is Zhou Sen, and he wants to get in touch with the Kazakh herdsmen up close and experience your life. ”

"Okay, welcome, welcome, my name is Bayi, reporter Zhou, it's really my honor for you to come to our house, you are very welcome to come to our house, since you are here, you are distinguished guests, I will do my best to entertain you." ”

Zhou Sen smiled, "Teacher Xu, the family you introduced is really good, the old gentleman has a very easy-going personality and is easy to get along with." ”

Bayi smiled, "I am already this age, I am 66 years old this year, in the words of you Chinese, it is time to know the destiny of heaven, although the life is a little hard, but I can still make do, I am already very satisfied, I am like this in my life, I can only be a herdsman." ”

"I don't make much money, my only hope is that the next generation can surpass me and learn more culture, Mr. Xu often comes to visit us, he never treats us as outsiders, and when I am sick, he also asks him to bring me stomach medicine from China. ”

"Teacher Xu, the person is really very good, when he returned to China, he remembered what I asked him to do, and brought me the stomach medicine produced in China, your Chinese stomach medicine is really good, I took three courses of treatment, and now my stomach basically doesn't hurt, I really thank Teacher Xu." ”

"Bayi, you are too polite, since we are friends, we should help each other, if you need any medicine, if you can't buy it here, as your Chinese friend, when I return to China, I will help you buy it." ”

"Okay, then I'm sorry for you!"

"Reporter Zhou doesn't know much about what food you Kazakhs like to eat, can you introduce it to him?

"Okay, we Kazakhs like to eat meat, most adults suffer from high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, whenever such a patient has dizziness and headache, we like to boil a big teapot of tea, several people sit together, drink a big sweat, headache and dizziness suddenly disappear. ”

"This is a local method, but it works, reporter Zhou, if you don't believe it, you can try it!"

Bayi asked his wife to serve a bowl of steaming hot tea, and then personally served it respectfully to Zhou Sen.

Zhou Sen looked at Xu Changming and asked for your opinion.

Xu Changming nodded, "Drink, it's okay, you can drink, it's clean!"

Zhou Sencai brought the hot tea to his mouth, the hot tea was hot, and he needed a small sip, a small sip, and drank it slowly, and his whole body felt comfortable after drinking.

Xu Changming said: "In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that 'if it hurts, it will not work, and if it is not painful', a large amount of hot tea enters the stomach, stimulates the blood circulation of the whole body, and the headache and dizziness disappear naturally." ”

Mutton is the main meat eaten in the daily life of the Kazakh people, the Kazakh people like to eat mutton, and among the adult men, there are many people who can eat a lamb at a meal.

Bayi said: "If there is a guest or a happy event in the house, pull one or two live sheep over, ask the guest or elder to say a few words of auspicious blessings, and slaughter them in public, we think this is fresher, we like to eat live sheep, unlike you Chinese who use refrigerators or freezers to freeze excess meat, and when it is time to eat it, then thaw it and take it out to eat." ”

"We think it's not fresh, we like to eat freshly killed, and the slaughtered must be sheep, because its meat is tender, delicious, rich in protein, fat and calories that the human body needs, so mutton is an excellent health nutrition product in addition to usual eating or hospitality. ”

"Let's go, let's sit outside, the house is too small to roast a whole sheep, I asked my son to kill a sheep, let's sit outside, roast and eat!"

It was difficult to resist the enthusiasm, Zhou Sen followed Bayi out of the yurt, on the grassland, a bonfire was raised, Bayi asked his son to kill sheep, and he accompanied Xu Changming and Zhou Sen to talk.

"We Kazakhs believe that sheep are loyal, docile, honest, lovely, timid, rich, we still have a lot of feelings for sheep, this is our main food, without these sheep, we can not live, we think that mutton is to nourish the physique, mutton soup is to nourish the face, to give mothers and frail people to drink mutton soup, recovery is particularly fast. ”

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