I have never paid attention to this magical land before, and it seems that there is never a shortage of majestic scenery here, grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and holy lakes, everywhere is a visual feast. Inhabited by 43 ethnic minorities, the colorful civilization brings the most beautiful handicraft arts, Tibetan thangka, Tu embroidery, Salar wood carving, each of which is a treasure.

Tibetan Buddhist temples are very different from those of Chinese Buddhism, and it is more accurate to say that they are not so much monasteries as schools. Temples tend to be centered around the main hall and are surrounded by monks' residences that stretch outward.

Buddhists take pride in sending their children to study at the temple, and they pay for dormitories around the temple where their children can study Buddhism.

Not far away, a 92-year-old monk came to the main hall on crutches, chanting and worshipping at every Buddha statue on the wall, and then shaking the prayer wheel, his movements were slow but so firm.

Ta'er Temple has three uniques: butter flowers, murals and pile embroidery, butter flowers and pile embroidery can be said to be a very precious intangible cultural heritage in China. Ghee flower originated from the plateau, is the unique sculpture art of the Tibetan people, it uses ghee as raw material, mixed with a variety of mineral pigments, bright colors, exquisite shapes, only the eyes can understand the charm.

At dusk, a monk pushed the prayer wheel alone and carried out the last practice of the day.

Nearby is called Regong Wutun Shangzhuang Village, which seems to be an inconspicuous village, where a large number of skilled craftsmen and artists live. Believers are willing to spend hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a stupa and enshrine it in their own Buddhist hall, which is a kind of pursuit of their faith.

Walking into the family of an artist who handmade a Tibetan pagoda, the man is already the sixth generation of the family. The process of making a stupa is complex and time-consuming, and a half-meter-high stupa can take him and his disciples months to make.

Each stupa is decorated with countless hand-made silver ornaments, and on closer inspection, each texture is created in a dozen and one hammer. Finally, it is inlaid with turquoise, coral, and agate, and the finished stupa is extremely exquisite.

Everyday life is boring, and every day is spent in thousands of thrashes. But his face was calm, and he said that making stupas was a practice for him. Doing devotional deeds with a pious heart and gaining inner peace is true happiness.

The most famous is the thangka, which has been sought after by collectors over the years, and its price has also been rising. Thangkas are full of strong religious overtones, and most of the content is the world of sacred Buddhas.

The pigments used to paint thangkas are all minerals and plants, including gold, silver, agate, sulfur, arsenic, cinnabar, saffron, rhubarb, indigo, etc., and the thangkas painted with these natural pigments can still maintain their bright colors after years of washing and erosion of history.

The process is complex, and the requirements for each process are very demanding. Making a thangka can take as little as half a year or as long as more than ten years. In the thangka painting process, the painting of the golden part is the most difficult, and it can only be completed by a master with more than ten years of experience.

Drawing the thangka on the spot, calm and relaxed, the pen is calm, not at all disturbed and affected by the outside world, this concentration not only makes Johnson secretly admire. Later, I learned that a thangka apprentice initially learned to meditate and adjust his breathing, and in the process of thangka painting, there was no need for impetuousness and distractions.

This is a kind of art, but also a kind of practice, concentrating and meditating, forgetting selflessness, cultivating one's own heart to be clean and ethereal, and practicing with a pure heart, in order to endow Thangka with extraordinary charm.

Further west, pass by the beautiful oil town of the past, a town full of socialist feelings, which was the base camp of exploration at that time. After completing the exploration mission, the town immediately ended its historical mission and began to flourish day after day on the Gobi Desert, leaving a pile of ruins and broken walls.

Passing by the last supply depot, we came to Cold Lake Town, and the next step was to really enter the no-man's land. The area ahead is devoid of vegetation, with six times the amount of precipitation, and one of the three sunniest places on the planet, with the exception of the Sahara and the Andes.

I happened to meet a Ford convoy, all heavy pickup trucks and birds of prey, and after negotiating, I joined in and went deep into the no-man's land.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, during the Cretaceous Jurassic era, it used to be an ocean, and then the earth changed its appearance, and these earth-like sediments were eroded by the wind day after day, and after weathering, intermittent flowing water, the formation of wind erosion mounds and wind erosion depressions parallel to the prevailing wind direction.

If we leave a footprint here, maybe it will still be there when we are old.

On unpaved roads, non-load-bearing cars with girders will be more comfortable than cars without girders, and sitting on the Raptor found that this kind of car is almost designed for such roads.

The weight is very large, the car is particularly wide, the stability and comfort at high speed off-road are better than many off-road vehicles, many times you can feel the car flying, and the four shocks are constantly absorbing the bounce of the tires and suspension, which is very enjoyable.

When the car arrived at the camp, it was close to evening, and SC Johnson was surprised to find that Ford had set up a camp in a no-man's land, in addition to the tent to live in tonight, there was also a rest area.

I have seen the camp culture in North America, and the camp built by Americans is not just as simple as sleeping, but also having fun in the middle of the night. A bar was designed in Daying, and in addition to craft beer and champagne, car owners from all over the world also brought their own liquor. Fortunately, two cases of fine red wine were also brought at that time, and everyone was happy together.

Suddenly I feel that the most luxurious life is not how expensive caviar you eat in the city, but in the depths of the desert, you can enjoy an ice cream, which is similar to doing whatever you want.

The next day, the two pickup trucks played High, back and forth on the desert dirt bag, in addition to the power, what is more exquisite is the chassis. The girders are strong, which makes them more arbitrary, and the Raptor's large front suspension stroke can play all kinds of tricks in the shell crater.

For this kind of car, there is not even too much superb driving technology, the four-wheel drive system is very clever to give enough torque, don't be afraid of skidding, the response is very fast, and the shell crater or something is no longer worried, just kick the accelerator and go down, everything else is a floating cloud.

Especially when encountering uphill and downhill, the car jumps one after another, the pickup truck does not have a heavy tail like an SUV, accompanied by the deflection of the tail, at this time you need to decisively reverse the direction and make up for a foot of oil, so that the strong torque and AT tires planing the ground, the charm of the rally lies in the wild, and the hi can't stop.