To the east and north of the stele are three large prayer flag towers of different sizes, and the largest prayer flag tower Liu Moang has to be at least 60 meters in diameter!

The three prayer flags are covered with colorful wind horse flags, which make a cheerful "whoosh" sound under the blowing of the mountain wind.

Around the stele, there are piles of mani of various sizes.

The mani piles made of stones by these Tibetan compatriots, like the prayer flags and pagodas and wind horse flags, all carry the prayers and blessings of the Tibetan compatriots.

Standing here and looking around, Liu Moang felt a real majesty and atmosphere.

Behind him and ten kilometers away from the opposite side is the snow-capped mountains of Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, and to the east and west is a gently undulating grassland with no edge in sight.

Countless yaks graze leisurely in the pastures, with the occasional muffled call or two of the Tibetan mastiff's own.

Although it is not as vast as the Inner Mongolia prairie, and it does not have the charm of "the sky is vast and the grass is blown by the wind and the cattle and sheep are low", standing here, Lao Liu can vaguely feel a realm called "the unity of heaven and man......

Well, that's Lao Liu's self-aggrandizement......

Don't think that if you stand tall, you can really touch the sky, you can really stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun!

Wake up......

So Lao Liu shook his head and began to walk back.

However, Lao Liu did not return along the original road of the national highway, he first walked a distance to the north, and only then walked back after entering the grassland.

There are not many yaks in this pasture, and the number of goats and sheep does not seem to be much, and a few Tibetan horses can be seen occasionally.

Compared to the distant pasture, the number of yaks and sheep in this pasture is much smaller.

But Lao Liu knows why, because this fenced grassland is the grassland of the second uncle's family.

When the second uncle returned to his hometown before he got sick, he often talked about things on this side of the plateau, including his family's grassland.

The main sources of income and food for herders in northern Tibet are yaks and sheep. When the second uncle settled in Duiling's Russian Bacuo team, the government allocated him a piece of grassland to raise cattle and sheep.

More than 20 years ago, the herdsmen here could get about 4,000 acres of natural grassland per capita, and the second uncle's family of two people at that time added up to more than 8,000 acres of grassland.

Of course, at that time, the management of grasslands was not as strict as it is now, and it was rare to see grasslands fenced off at that time, unlike now, when almost every grassland would be fenced with a simple fence to form a fenced grassland.

According to the second uncle, at that time, the two of them raised a total of 46 yaks, more than 50 sheep, and six horses.

That's a decent amount.

Grazing people know a word called "pasture carrying capacity".

Grassland livestock carrying capacity is an important indicator to measure the production capacity of grassland, which refers to the number of livestock that can be grazed per unit area of grassland during the grazing period.

This indicator is usually expressed by the average number of livestock grazing per hectare of grassland, and the vast majority of countries in the world use cattle as a unit, but in New Zealand and China in the South Pacific, sheep are used as a unit.

In northern Tibetan pastoral areas, a sheep or a goat is equal to one sheep unit, a yak is equal to five sheep units, and a horse is equal to six sheep units.

The pastoral area of northern Tibet belongs to the alpine grassland, and the natural conditions are very harsh, so the livestock carrying capacity cannot be compared with the Mongolian steppe.

Lao Liu didn't know about other places, but when his second uncle first talked about this matter, he once said that in Dangquka County, about 130 acres of natural grassland is needed to feed a yak, and about 26 acres of natural grassland is needed to feed a sheep.

At that time, the yaks and sheep raised by the second uncle's family, plus the number of horses, were equivalent to 316 sheep units, and his family's more than 8,000 acres of grassland could be fed.

Originally, the two of them imagined having two more children in the future, and then raising more cattle and sheep when the children were older, but they didn't expect the second aunt to die of dystocia and hemorrhage.

The death of the second aunt hit the second uncle quite big, so that the second uncle had little interest in raising cattle and sheep, and could only relieve the pain in his heart by constantly wandering for half a year.

However, although the second uncle is reluctant to raise cattle and sheep, the second aunt still has some relatives. For example, the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the second uncle, as well as the eldest brother and others. These relatives of the second uncle helped the second uncle feed these livestock when the second uncle was out.

It's just that each family has a lot of livestock, plus grazing here at least twice a year to make a transfer, it's good to say that the time is short, but after a long time, the relatives don't have much energy to help the second uncle take care of those livestock, so the number of livestock in the second uncle is much less.

Three or four years ago, the second uncle was tired of wandering outside, so he returned to Obacuo, in order to fulfill his family's desire to open a restaurant, he disposed of some livestock to make money, and now the number of livestock belonging to the second uncle is only 12 yaks, more than 20 sheep and three horses.

This is the livestock that Liu Moang sees in this pasture now.

Looking at the pasture in front of him, where the number of livestock was pitiful, and thinking of the second uncle who had passed away, Lao Liu couldn't help but sigh for a while.

It belongs to the alpine region, and even if the pastures in the summer are green, they cannot be compared with the grasslands of the Mongolian steppes.

Most of the pastures here are mainly alpine artemisia grass and fleshy fruit grass, and the height is pitiful, even in summer, the height of the grass will not exceed 20 centimeters. Naturally, this is far from being comparable to the pasture grass that can easily hide people in the grasslands of the lower altitudes. But it is this grass that is the main food for yaks and sheep.

Lao Liu walked all the way, and was about to turn back to the hotel, when the two yaks that were grazing more than 20 meters away in front of the left didn't know how to do it, so they walked to Lao Liu's distance of about seven or eight meters.

These two yaks, one big and one small, are obvious, these are the mother and son.

The little yak looked like a calf that had just been born for less than two months, staring at Lao Liu with two big black and shiny eyes, as if he was wondering if the two-legged monster in front of him could be eaten or if it was delicious......

The female yak stared at Lao Liu for a while, and then she didn't know what the cow was thinking, so she didn't pay attention to Lao Liu, but lowered her head and continued to nibble on the grass on the ground.

This is the best time to eat, and if you don't take advantage of this time to feed your belly, it will be difficult to survive when winter comes.

Lao Liu stood there looking at the pair of yak mother and son, with a smile on his face.

Isn't this scene of mother and child complementing each other a microcosm of nature?

The little calf seemed to feel that there was no danger to the two-legged monster in front of him, and a certain breath faintly exuded from this two-legged monster made the calf feel very close, so the little calf snorted twice at the female yak, and then ran over slowly with his little short legs, stopped in front of Lao Liu, tilted his head and snorted softly.

Lao Liu also likes it very much, although he doesn't know why this little calf shows his closeness to himself, but Lao Liu still stretched out his hand and prepared to stroke the cow's head......

PS: The old rules, during the new book, two changes a day......