Kungnai Si, meaning "Sun Slope" in Mongolian, is located in the northern part of Bayinbruk Grassland, with a length of 40 kilometers and a width of 1 kilometer. It is the hometown of Xinjiang's fine-wool sheep, and also the famous origin of "Heavenly Horse - Ili Horse". The grassland terrain of this place is undulating, with a variety of weather. Mountain grassland, river valley grassland coexist, spring, summer, autumn and winter pastures are available, rivers, lakes, springs and streams, wild fruits and flowers, rare and exotic animals, all have everything, look at GongnaiSi, all is a fascinating place to go.

The cold and snowy day, the water of Gongnai Si River is too fast because of the flow rate, so it can't be frozen, only on the left side of the river bank and the gentle place to let the snow cover the expansion of the river inward.

Looking around in GongnaiSi grassland, blue sky, green land, green mountains, green water, a color of the northern border style, it is refreshing. There is also the Gongnais River meandering in front of us, which can be described as "three sides of the green mountains in the green screen, around the waist of the jade belt across the river". Surrounded by rolling hills, blue grass like a carpet, both the vastness of the grassland, but also the softness of the stream; both the handsome mountains, but also the momentum of the pine forests, such as waves.

The vast and clear water of the Kung Nai Si River has no bubbles, only at the rapids where the bends hit the rocks, a circle of eddies calmly unfolds outward, and then spreads out to the west, like a flat cloth ....... This is the summer of the Gongnai River.

The scenery of the river valley meadow is very touching, especially in mid-spring, in the various colors of wildflowers competing for beauty, especially the red Kizihal Daho, dotted with stars, such as the floating clouds of the sunset into a piece of brocade, the wind gently shaking, cattle and sheep wriggling, the distant mountains snow-capped, static and dynamic, known as one of the Kung Nai Si grassland scenic beauty.

In summer, Gongnais Grassland is like a colorful carpet, with a green background and silver lace, which is especially gorgeous and magnificent under the blue sky.

In the summer, Gongnais Grassland is like a colorful carpet with silver lace on a green background, which is especially gorgeous and magnificent under the blue sky. Butterflies and bees pass by, grass green leaves elegant, gold Yingzi dazzling gold, ginseng flowers splash fragrance, Ula Gui flowers spitting fragrance, shandandandan flowers flow colorful. The hot springs are purple mist, hot air brushing people's faces, white clouds around, angels fly in front of the eyes, as if in the sea of flowers, the world of grass.

In the winter of Gongnai Si, the whole grassland is glittering with silver light, the mountains are rolling for more than a thousand miles, the snow covers more than a thousand miles, and the grassland is decorated by snow into a silver-white world. Snow masked the natural color, thousands of miles of wall carpet of the mountain slopes no longer look as green, jagged rock contours no longer look so distinct. The mountain cows and sheep are meekly transferred to the winter nest, leisurely chewing on corn stalks ......

In the winter, thick snow covers the land of the Kung Nai Si Grassland, the sky and the earth are pale. At this time, everything is now so monotonous and tasteless, even the bustle of the cabin also quietly enjoy the warmth of the winter sun, and then look at the mountains, the mountains in the snow under the lining is more like a silver dress.

Although the time and space cycle, but the Kung Nai Si grasslands on the Kazakh herdsmen flow in the body is still the pure blood of the nomadic herdsmen, they still retain the hernia plagiarism of the national characteristics, still can ride in the thousands of miles of grassland. In the Gongnais Grassland, all of them, from the oldest old man to the youngest child, are capable of riding horses. In addition, the summer grassland pasture has more pastoral songs, pieces of herds, dress girls, mule riders, for the magnificent prairie added a full of vitality.

Every year between June and September, here grass, mountain flowers, colorful, the prairie embellished with colorful. The Kazakh felt houses scattered on the grassland are springing up, making the grassland more vibrant and energetic. The grassland festivals of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Region and Xinyuan County are mostly held here.

Climate:

Gongnais Grassland annual average temperature -4.5 ℃, the hottest month in July the average temperature is only 0.4 ℃, the coldest month in January the average temperature -26.0 ℃, the average maximum temperature in July 17.7 ℃, the annual precipitation of 276.2 mm, sunshine hours of 2,822 hours, the sunshine percentage of 63%, the average annual wind speed of 2.6 m/s, the most wind direction for the static wind, wind frequency 28%, followed by the wind frequency of 28%. The wind frequency of 28%, followed by the east wind, wind frequency of 12%, September 7 every year, the first snowfall, to June 2 next year to stop snowfall.

Transportation:

You can take a car from Urumqi to Gongnais Grassland and drive 460 kilometers to Hejing County along Wuyi Highway and Dukou Highway. You can also take a train from Turpan to Hejing County, and then travel 300 kilometers along the rugged mountain road from Hejing County, and then you can enter the Gongnais Grassland.

Diet:

As the Kazakhs mainly eat beef, mutton and horse meat, followed by naan and noodles made of flour and grabbing rice. Their favorite food is "kinte": the meat of young animals mixed with cream, packed in horse intestines, steamed and eaten. The main thing to drink is milk, horse milk, milk tea, more like horse milk wine.

Folklore and customs:

The Kazakhs celebrate the following festivals: Mezze (commonly known as the New Year), Gurbon (commonly known as the New Year), and Nawruz, which is characterized by a strong ethnic flavor. "and so on. In addition, Kazakh girls are also good at singing and dancing, such as the milking dance, the sheep-shearing dance, the embroidered scarf dance, the felt-making dance, the horse-riding dance, the bear-fighting dance and the wedding dance, which are mostly related to nomadic life. Young men like wrestling, horse racing, DiaoYang, there are young men and women **** with the fun of the "girl chase".

Local flavors:

Crispy and thin naan, baked buns, noodles, deep-fried noodle cakes, oil tarts, thin-skinned buns, and milk tea are the traditional foods of the Kazakhs. What is more worth mentioning is that they can process milk and goat's milk into eight or nine kinds of dairy products, either fragrant or sweet or sour, all with rich milk flavor, rich in nutrients, and can be full of taste.