Hi, I'm back to post the other part of introduction of my hometown-Inner Mongolia!
You may have already have an overview about Mongolia. At this unique grassland ground, many people traveled there leaves really high recognition. They love the ebullient Mongolian people there, the delicious milk products, and especially the bueatiful sceneries there!
Not only foreign people, some population that lives far away from north part of China, they may also not really familiar with what Mongolian actually like and what kind of lifestyle they really do 20 years ago.
Like, My elder sister who is 28 years old now, when she went to University in Beijing in 2000, after her classmates knew that she comes from Inner Mongolia, they are all curious about how people live in grassland go to school or come to work everyday, they thought perhaps Mongolian are riding horses to wherever they go. However, definitely not! We live in grassland, that's right, but, we also develop following the countries policies. My sister replied them humorous, she said," no no, Mongolian can not ride a horse if you are under 18, before you reach 18, you should ride a sheep or something lower than horse to wherever you want".
Even you think this is funy, but nor do we! We hope more and more people can realise us in a deeper level not just enjoy and longing the amazing sceneries here.
When I was 16, actually it was my first time to see the real grassland in Inner Mongolia in my life. feel a little bit sorry about that as a "Mongolian girl". Australian may not understand this feel, in China, if you live in a big city like Beijing, you can not see the blue sky everyday excepet rainy. But， after i went to there once, I just feel that I am so proud as a Mongolian girl. You can not imaging that sense! Really like that you are staying in the sky! And there are only three colors there, blue, green and white! Alot of people they are longing to live there, you can actually feel what freedom is there!
So, sincerely, welcome all you guys come to travel here-Inner Mongolia!
Hi, everybody! I'm Fayfay, come from Inner Mongolia.
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 ~
