? Mongolia Source and Streams, Volume 6: "Where there is a contribution to all people, all rewarded 'Dai - Darhan' name. Zhang Ertian supplementary note: Darhan, there are honors and exemptions from poor service. 'Dai Darhan', big Darhan also." Maomingan flag a name Maomingan Zasak flag, named after the Mongolian Maomingan Department.
Another said, "Darhan, from the Kalka Department of Outer Mongolia. Belongs to a branch of the Tushetuhan and Noyan (small tribes). Kangxi eight years, that is, 1663 AD, the Qing government for the rule of the introduction of alliance flag system to divide and rule, then divided into 100 flags, of which 51 flags in Inner Mongolia. Outer Mongolia 49 flags, which has the Darhan, and Maomingan tribal union, called Darhan Maomingan United Flag. My hometown is a township in Inner Mongolia Dalhan Maomingan United Banner, the altitude is very high, more than 1,000 meters, the plateau climate, the winter is long and cold, snowy, snowy, thick, thick to the door can not be pushed, walking outside, the snow is sometimes above the knees of the adults, due to the temperature is low, the snow is not so easy to melt, the whole winter snow covered the earth. Sometimes, when the weather got warmer, the snow melted a little bit, and the snow would pile up a little bit. When the weather is a little warmer, we will pile up snowmen, snowball fights, ice skating, these are our childhood entertainment activities.? Spring drought and sandy winds, especially in May, the largest sandy winds, sometimes the daytime blowing dark, are blocking the sun, the sky has become a black sky. In order to prevent the sand from entering the room, the adults put very heavy felt made of wool, blocked in all the windows, the wind is very violent, blowing over, the felt will be tightly attached to the window, will not fall down. The felt is so pliable that when not in use, it can be rolled up and placed away.
Summer is very short, but also cool, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, the morning to wear long sleeves and long pants, to the midday sun when the head, very hot, out of the heat will be sweating, to the evening and will be very cold, to add clothes. Rainfall is not much, sunshine time is very long, the day early light, seven or eight o'clock in the evening after the day slowly dark, the evening sun in summer is very beautiful and the distant peaks reflect each other, every day there is the evening sun, every time I will be immersed in the beautiful evening sun in the flawed thinking. 7, August precipitation in the two months more, every year on July 21, also is the cow long weaver will meet the day will be the pouring rain. The riverbed in front of your hometown will be soaring, tumbling and rolling, flowing forward, and converging into the Yellow River.Autumn is the most enjoyable season, all kinds of fruits and vegetables are sold by vendors, yelling each other, adults will buy a lot of them, and put them in the cellar, the cellar is very cool, the storage time is long, not easy to be bad, much longer than the refrigerator storage cycle. Cabbage, carrots are not easy to go bad, can be put in the winter, to buy a lot of chestnuts or white radish, cabbage, cabbage to pickle a jar by jar, especially the cabbage pickled into sauerkraut, to eat a winter, is a must-have. Sauerkraut can do sauerkraut dumplings, meat stewed sauerkraut, sauerkraut vermicelli fried to eat, or shredded meat sauerkraut, sauerkraut system is very natural, put the cabbage sun, cleaned, one by one in a jar, each put a layer of sprinkling of some salt, and finally put the full tank, the most top put on the stone to press tightly, and then fill with water to submerge, half a month after the sauerkraut will be done. Pickled sauerkraut is a little yellow, very bright, crystal clear, and fragrant to eat. Hometown cabbage did not use chemical fertilizers, is outdoors to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the soil grows out, this method can be pickled, now on the market cabbage can not be so pickled, easy to rot, because too much chemical fertilizers, and it is a large canopy planting, to pickle, as if it is necessary to go through a special treatment, right, and the taste is very poor, too many toxins in it. Autumn has no yellow wind, no rain, no snow, very comfortable season, but much colder than summer, have to wear a wool sweater. The temperature difference between summer and cold is huge, it just gets colder overnight.
In the winter, we wear much thicker, thick sweaters and wool pants. We wear handmade sweaters and pants made of real wool and camel's hair, a coat and pants, hand-knitted wool gloves and a wool scarf and a hat, and leather boots to walk outside. Otherwise you would freeze and shiver. I personally saw a foreign man man, because of wearing little, freezing straight to cry, teardrops are almost frozen into ice stubble. Outside the strange cold, but inside the home will be very warm, each room to build a stove, charcoal is also locally produced, one hundred miles from home, buy back by yourself, that kind of charcoal is very good, full combustion, will not be worried about carbon dioxide poisoning, burned into white flour. That kind of charcoal fire is very strong, burning home is very hot, very comfortable, not on fire, and not dry. We don't sleep on beds. If you sleep on beds, your body can't stand it, it's too cold. We would build a special kang, with several layers of wool felt on top, which had no smell, and cotton sheets on top, so that it was very comfortable to sleep on, and the kang felt hot all night, and didn't feel cold or hot. At night, the stove is on, and a piece of charcoal is put on top, which slowly burns until dawn, and when the stove is about to go out, another piece of charcoal is put on top, which will continue to burn. We called this kind of charcoal "tail charcoal", which was specially made for the stove. Ordinary charcoal has a lot of smoke, chokes the nose, and has a big smell, so it's not suitable for making charcoal fire. Our kang has a fire bed underneath it, and there is a channel inside the fire bed that goes around the kang in order to let the heat penetrate underneath the kang, and there is a channel on the side of the fire bed that leads to the outside, in order to let the wind come in, so that the charcoal can have enough oxygen to burn, and at the same time, it can also produce a small amount of smoke that goes to the outside through the channel, and the kang built in this way is considered to be a success, and there is no worry about choking or carbon dioxide poisoning when you fall asleep. When you sleep, you won't worry about choking or carbon dioxide poisoning. The stove in our room was also connected to a stovepipe, which was a big right angle, so high that it went along the bottom of the roof to the entrance of the smoke hole, which was also open to the outside, to take the smoke and the gas. In the room we wore very little and were very comfortable.The mutton of the old family is also famous in the country. Very fresh, very tender, not fishy, not stinky, easy to digest. Eating meat is something that families enjoy. Mutton is homegrown. Sheep are treasures from head to toe. There are various ways to eat. The most famous way of eating is called hand-held meat. Everyone knows it. Is to put the lamb with bones in the green water to cook, cook the meat discoloration, turn white, you can eat, very tender, stick a little bit of sesame sauce marinated leek flower curd juice can be, the taste is pure, a little bit of nasty, very fragrant, ate is not easy to get fat. Outside the mutton is not to eat this way. After leaving my hometown, I am accustomed to eating pure meat, so it is difficult for me to swallow the meat on the market now, unless the meat is done well just to show a strong flavor of seasoning, suppressing the flavor of the meat itself, I can swallow a few mouthfuls. There really isn't much good meat to eat, so I have to make do with what I have.
The old family often drink a kind of milk tea, that is, boiled with brick tea, put some cows squeezed out of the current milk, very good, never tired of drinking. Drinking milk tea, and then chew a little fried rice, fried rice is also something unique to the grasslands, this we do not do, will buy some from the store back to eat. Put the fried rice into the milk tea, add a spoonful of cream, stir, a flavor will come out. Sometimes when I was hungry, I drank some milk tea mixed with fried rice, and it made me very hungry. We are not fat, after eating meat, we will drink a kind of brick tea with boiling water, this brick tea is very cheap, and Pu-erh tea, the same effect, weight loss, grease, but I wonder why the same effect of the same thing, Pu-erh sells so expensive, while the brick tea in my hometown is as cheap as the stall goods, something that every family can have. Every family has a well, their own drilling, we drink all the water from the well, since childhood, I have been drinking cold water, that is, well water, not boiled water. Unless the winter is too cold, or to Che tea to drink only drink boiled water.
? My hometown is very quiet, so quiet that you can only hear the sound of the wind, and occasionally hear a few barking dogs. There are very few people, seemingly no one. Fresh air, sunny, beautiful fields, all colors of yam flowers everywhere, and rolling hills, the front of the curved riverbed, and the village side of a lot of trees surrounded, really like a paradise, where people are kind, hard-working, rise at sunrise, sunset, self-farming, with the world, simple, no desire, living in obscurity.