Huma is in the north wind
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Over the years, I seem to have slowly understood what is called "being able to speak the language of the beast".
In 1992, a conference on Mongolian culture was held, and an elder published a paper saying that Mongolian horses were very sensitive to the direction of their homeland.
He gave an example of the fact that in the 1950s, Mongolia donated horses to Vietnam. Once, 5 horses were sent to Vietnam by truck or train.
5 horses arrived in Vietnam, one less the next morning, and finally did not find, forget it.
As a result, 6 months later, in the suburban pasture of Ulaanbaatar, the rancher got up in the morning to check the horses and found that there was a horse in the distance, like a wild horse, but it was not, with horseshoes, very thin.
It was next to that ranch, trying to come in but not daring to come in. The owner thought that if it was a bad and sick horse, he had to find a way to quickly lead it away, otherwise it would infect the disease.
But when the master passed, he saw the horse standing there, and there were big drops of tears in its eyes.
The mongolian wrangler's skill was that even if he had 300 horses and 500 horses, as long as it was his horse, he would recognize each one.
The owner came close to see that it was the good horse he had sent to Vietnam half a year ago. The master just held the horse and cried, so painful!
Medieval explorers said that before the Mongolian horse set out, it would raise its hooves to hiss at its hometown and look at the stars, so that it would not fail to come back.
But how did this Mongolian horse from the 20th century come back by truck or train? How many rivers does it have to cross?
Not to mention the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, there are so many rivers in Vietnam, there are so many mountains, there are so many villages, there are so many curious people, greedy people...
Therefore, when it sees its master, the tears flow down in large drops. So what does the master do after he has cried? The host feasted on the guests and brought all the neighbors to say:
"My horse is back, my horse, which is running in the direction of home from a distant place, is back.
From now on, I will not allow it to do any work, no one will be allowed to ride it, and it will stay on the grassland of its hometown forever. I give it a pension and don't allow anyone to bully it. ”
The horse lived happily for more than a decade.
I asked the elders, "How did that horse come back?" He said, "Probably because of the wind in the north." The breath of the north, the horse can smell. ”
Therefore, "Huma according to the north wind, the south branch of the nest of the birds" is still proven in the 20th century. The horse came back smelling the north. I thought that if a person is in a nomadic society, he can definitely understand the feeling of the horse, the mood of the horse.
People often say, "You are not as good as a beast." "In this case, I do not agree. The fowl has its heart; the beast has its heart; and man has a human heart, and it is the same.
So, I would like to tell the story mentioned in the book written by Mr. Feng Zikai for his teacher, Mr. Li Shutong: "There was a man who bought a horse.
The horse had a strange problem, and the man found the old owner of the horse and said, 'Your horse is all good, but there is a strange problem, and if it sees a white horse on the road, it will stop.
It wasn't until the white horse left its sight that it listened to me and began to do things. Mr. Feng Zikai made a note: "It is Ma Ye, and there are people who are heartbroken." I used to agree, now I don't agree.
It is a horse, its horse heart is like this, why does it have a human heart? Don't horses have hearts? Don't horses want to be home?
It is said that man and nature are as if insulated— when man becomes an insulator, there are many creatures in nature who have the same feelings as us.
If we can care about these creatures, if we care about the grasslands, if we care about the forests, if we care about the many birds and beasts that fly in the sky and walk on the ground, if we can put ourselves in their shoes - I think that's good.
How to divide the advantages and disadvantages of horses? Some books say that the master of the first class horse rides on it, and it moves; the second class horse, the master gestures to it before leaving.
When the master goes up and whips it, it walks, and it is the horse of the third class; and the horse that whips it, and it does not go, is the horse of the fourth class.
I think the author may not have been to the nomadic world, has not had the experience of being with the horses—the horse that whips it, the horse that does not step, must be in danger ahead, it does not step.
Horses on the battlefield that whip their masters but do not step on them for the safety of their masters cannot be said or written in epics.
"Jianger" is a heroic epic, with more than 100,000 lines and more than 70 parts, many of which are sung along with his warhorses.
Of course, the horse that the owner walked as soon as he went up was a first-class horse. But the horse whose master whips and does not go away must have its reason, and you must first understand this reason - this may not be the same as the thinking of people in agricultural society.
About author:Xi Murong (born October 15, 1943), full name Mulun Xi Lianbo, was born in Chongqing, grew up in Taiwan, originally from the Chahar Department of Inner Mongolia, and is a well-known contemporary painter, poet and essayist. Her works are infused with ancient eastern philosophies, with religious overtones, revealing a desolate charm of the impermanence of life. He has authored more than 50 kinds of poems, prose collections, albums and anthologies, and poems such as "Qilixiang", "Youth Without Complaint", and "A Blossoming Tree" have become popular and become classics.
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