A classmate of my BBA 102 course called me Mongolian girl once he knew where am I come from, but, actually, I'm not a real Mongolian even I was born there.
Even though, I still love and be proud of it really much ,and I think after you guys realise what an amazing place Inner Mongolia is, you will also fall in love with it!
Now, let's go deeper to explore why I say that.
Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region in China which is located in the northern part of China like the picture shows below.
Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the country of Mongolia (alternatively known as Outer Mongolia) and the Russian Federation. Its capital is Hohhotand the largest city is Baotou. My hometown is called Chifeng, locates in the northeast in Inner Mongolia, a city combines the culture of Mogolian and Han Chinese.
It is the third-largest subdivision of China spanning about 1,200,000 km² (463,000 sq mi) or 12% of China's total land area. It has a population of about 24 million as of 2004. The autonomous region was established in 1947. The majority of the population in the region are Han Chinese, with a substantial Mongol minority. Just like me, all my families are Han Chinese, but our native places are all belong to Inner Mongolia.
The official languages are Chinese and Southern Mongolian.
This is the original language in Inner Mongolia, in my opinion, it seems like Latin words，but much easier than latins for learning and understanding. Once I joked with my father, I said, if some one whose first language is Mongolian, that guy's Math would be really excellent! My dad asked me why, I explained, " you see, Mongolian words' written method just like you draw a vertical line and depending on different meanings, the amount of horizontal lines will be differ, if some one who learn it, he must firstly can count numbers for remembering the words!" ^_^ Sounds funny, right?!The specific geographicial environment and climate decide the unique sceneries of Inner Mongolia.
Due to its size, Inner Mongolia has a wide variety of temperatures but the following climactic characteristics apply provincial-wide: four-season monsoon-influenced climate, with long, cold, very dry winters, quick and dry springtime and autumnal transitions (the former of which is prone to sandstorms), and very warm to hot summers. Generally, cold arid r steppe climatic regimes dominate, but there are some areas classified as humid continental, located primarily in higher elevations and in the northeast, and subarctic, located in the far north.
Farming of crops such as wheat takes precedence along the river valleys. In the more arid grasslands, herding of goats, sheep and so on is a traditional method of subsistence. Forestry and hunting are somewhat important in the Greater Khingan ranges in the east. Reindeer herding is carried out by Evenks in the Evenk Autonomous Banner. More recently, growing grapes and winemaking have become an economic factor in the Wuhai area.
Inner Mongolia has abundance of resources especially coal, cashmere, natural gas, rare earth element, and has more deposits of naturally occurring niobium, zirconium and beryllium than any other province-level region in China.
The sheep in Inner Mongolia is also as famous as Australia in China. If you want to buy a real wool product, exactly the first choice is the products produced in Mongolia. We also have a lots of delicious foods in lamb, such as roasted whole lamb.
Just like everyone knows Beijing, they may know roasted dark , once some one who mentions Inner Mongolia, he must knows roasted whole lamb as well!
Ok, this is the first part of my introduction of Inner Mongolia. I will update another post about it later! see you ~
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