When I woke up, it was already dawn and I found snow outside the car window. Looking out of the car window, the international column has reached Lake Baikal, and the flying goose feather snow covers the endless lake, and the white chaos between the sky and the earth is in chaos, trying to look at the sky in the distance, but it is impossible to distinguish where is the lake and which is the sky. Yesterday I drank a lot of wine at the fat brother's place, and I drank a few glasses with Xiao Cui North Korean Kim in the evening, and today I feel a little sore in my head, weak and lazy, and I have no appetite. Seeing that the three of them were still sleeping, I didn't want to get up, so I lay on my bed and watched the rare snow scene of Lake Baikal outside the car window.

Just as I could see God, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door of the box, and there should be no Russian robbers after this time in Ulan-Ude, so I asked who it was? I heard a Russian woman outside the door answer, hello! Do you need local Russian crafts? As soon as I heard the interest, I saw that Xiao Cui and North Korean Kim were awake, Xiao Cui was lying on the top bunk like me and watching the snow outside the car window, and Kim was sitting and drinking tea, so I was about to climb out of bed to open the door, when I saw Brother Chao get up and open the box door.

At the door stood a middle-aged Russian woman in her forties wearing a Nizi coat, carrying a large travel bag. The middle-aged woman first greeted us very politely, then put the travel bag on the ground, took out a small green jade figurine, necklace, handmade cowhide painting, and nesting doll from the travel bag, and placed them on Chaoge's bed. Brother Chao picked up a calf made of dark green jade, although the carving is rough, but it feels cute and cute, and the texture of the jade is also very delicate, I picked up a pony carved in jade, and it felt heavy in my hand. When I was buying jade carving gold toad in the domestic handicraft market, I chatted with the owner of the jade carving shop, and he told me that the heavier the jade, the higher the density of the jade, and the higher the density of the jade, the better the quality of the jade. I said to Brother Chao: "Brother Chao, the quality of these jade should be good, it is very heavy in the hand, and the density is very high, but it is a pity that there are too many black spots on the jade, if it is pure green, it will be too beautiful." Brother Chao asked the middle-aged woman, "Is this carved from jade?" The middle-aged woman nodded yes, and Brother Chao asked, "Where is the jade produced?" The middle-aged woman replied, "This is jade from Ulan-Ude." Brother Chao carefully admired the calf carved in jade with great interest, and finally selected a few jade figurines and bought them. I also bought two small jade carved animals. Xiao Cui was infected by us, and he also bought two necklaces made of dark green jade, and said that he would go back and give them to his two girlfriends. Only Kim was not interested, he said that in Irkusco he had seen a lot of these things on the market.

I was attracted by a set of pink nesting dolls and a set of green nesting dolls, you can see them everywhere in Russia, but the nesting dolls taken out by middle-aged women are a little special, the nesting dolls sold in general stores are painted with the image of typical Russian girls wearing Russian national costumes, but these two nesting dolls are the faces of Asians in Mongolian costumes, and after opening them layer by layer, there are seven Asian girl dolls with different expressions, the smallest doll is only half a little finger size. I asked the middle-aged woman, "Why are these two nesting dolls different from the nesting dolls I usually see?" The matryoshka dolls I usually see seem to have Russian girls painted on them. The middle-aged woman said: "These two sets of nesting dolls are handmade, the master craftsman is a Buryats, he deliberately painted the image of their national girl, this kind of nesting dolls are rarely seen, and it takes a long time to make a set of nesting dolls by hand, if you like it, you can buy it as a souvenir." After saying that, she showed us the base of the nesting doll, and there was a signature on the base. I asked about the price, and although it was a bit expensive, I decided to buy it, the green one for Sveta and the pink one for Denya.

After the middle-aged woman left, Brother Chao said while playing with the jade statue: "I really didn't expect that there would be a jade mine in Ulan-Ude, there is a Xinjiang jasper carving at home, which was bought by my father when he went to Xinjiang, and the price is quite expensive. When I return to China in the future, I will find someone to identify it, see if I can get some of these jade stones back to China, and sell them to those jade processing factories or handicraft shops. "I secretly admired in my heart, Brother Chao is really a natural business material, no matter what he sees, he will be associated with business, but I can't imagine it.

After washing up and having a brief breakfast, I took the green nesting doll and went to Sveta. When I saw the nesting doll, Sveta couldn't help but say: "It's so beautiful, it's a special nesting doll, this painting should be a Buryat girl, where did you buy it?" I replied, "There was a Russian woman who sold it in the carriage just now." Sveta said, "Why haven't I met it?" I smiled and said, "Where are they going to knock on your box door?" Even if you did, would you still be interested in Russian crafts? Sveta smiled and said, "Peng, what you said makes sense, even if I meet it, I won't pay attention to it." As she spoke, Sveta took apart the matryoshka doll and found that it was seven, and Sveta said happily, "I like the number seven, which means luck." Peng, did you give me this nesting doll? I nodded and said, "If I don't give it to you, should I give it to Lena?" Sveta kissed me and said, "Thank you, dear, I like it so much, I'm going to put her in my living room, and I'll think of you when I see them." I said, "Sveta, I've seen the matryoshka dolls many times, but I don't understand why the matryoshka dolls are made one by one." Does it make any sense? Sveta thought for a moment and said, "I remember that there is a legend in Russia that once upon a time there were two neighbors in the country, one with a boy and the other with a girl, and the boy and girl were of the same age, and they grew up together when they were children, and then the boy went away to make a living and became a clever carpenter. Because I miss the girls in my hometown, I make a wooden doll every year according to the girl's appearance, and the wooden doll is getting bigger and bigger every year. A few years later, he returned to his hometown and gave these wooden dolls to girls, and later some people imitated these wooden dolls, and then there was a skilled craftsman for the convenience of carrying and for practicality, and the inspiration made it into the current kind of one by one, nesting dolls are not only decorations, but also can be used to hold jewelry, sundries, candy, etc., and can also be used as a gift box. Matryoshka dolls can be made into sets of up to fifteen. I nodded and said, "I see, I used to think that the matryoshka doll symbolizes the mother, the Matryoska (matryoshka in Russian) is pronounced very much like the Machi (mother's Russian) pronunciation, the round belly of the matryoshka doll is like a pregnant woman, and the layers of small dolls inside are like little dolls that have been born." Hearing me say this, Sveta took my hand and said: "Dear Peng, you are so smart, you say this, I remembered at once, in Russia there is such a saying, the root of Matlyoska's Latin root "mater", which means mother. In ancient Russia, Matlyoska was a very common woman's name, and when you hear this name, you can easily associate it with the mother of a large peasant family, usually a strong, capable, slightly obese Russian woman who gave birth to many children. Maybe it was the former craftsman who named his work Matlyoska, or maybe it was a nesting doll made by a skilled craftsman after a girl named Matlyoska. Therefore, people call her Matlyoska, you see that the chubby nesting doll has so many little dolls hidden in the belly, symbolizing that the chubby mother gave birth to a lot of fat dolls, implying the prosperity of the family, in our Russia, people call the nesting doll also called the auspicious doll. "I think that when I go back to China in the future, I will also buy a beautiful and exquisite Matrioska to take home.