If you had to choose, which would you think was better, the American West Cowboys and the Chinese Cattle Ranchers? In the 1860s, thousands of young people went to the big ranches in the American West, some of them were young men on Midwestern farms, some were British people seeking adventure, some were veteran soldiers, some were black slaves, and even Mexicans from the border, and finally they all became a kind of people: cowboys, so what did cowboys in the American West do? Is there a difference between it and Chinese cattle herders?
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From the 16th century onwards, European immigrants and colonists successively brought cattle to the western United States, most of the cattle brought were Spanish cattle and British cattle, the cattle of that time were not as docile as the cattle of today, like the cattle in the Spanish bullfighting, rough temperament, extremely difficult to manage, but very adaptable to the harsh environment of the western United States.
By the 19th century, the Pacific Railway across the east and west of the United States was completed, the eastern cities of the United States opened to the western ranch, in the 1860s, the United States social unrest, many black slaves poured into Texas, due to the rapid development of Texas animal husbandry and the large increase in the demand for beef in the northern region, cowboys began to rise rapidly in Texas, Texas is also known as the homeland of cowboys, the cowboys in the film and television dramas are handsome and handsome, riding horses on the prairie to punish evil and promote good, And the real cowboy, can not say exactly the same, can only be said to be irrelevant.
First of all, the real cowboys are not all white handsome men, but made up of whites, blacks, Indians, Mexicans and many other races, the life of cowboys is very boring, and the daily work is mainly "patrolling the border" and "paddock". "Patrol" is that cowboys patrol along the boundaries of the ranch every day to prevent cattle from running out, but also to prevent cattle from other pastures from mixing in, but also to prevent cattle thieves, "paddocks" are divided into spring and autumn, spring "paddocks" are mainly to brand new students. Autumn "paddock" is mainly to pick out fat cattle to sell, the wind and sun for many years, the skin of the cowboys are dark and rough, and the long-term riding has made the cowboys mostly deformed and become figure-eight legs, how did this cowboy become a famous american and then meet the charm of the girl?
Have you ever wondered why cowboys in the western United States are "famous overseas" and Chinese cattle herders are not cared for? This is all due to the early American literature and film and television works of vigorous shaping, they characterized the cowboys, heroic, made into movies, well known to everyone, in contrast to our country, have you seen any director who will deliberately shoot cattle?
The earliest cowboy story in the United States originated in the United States in 1860 "Bi Chu Dime Novel", the book depicts the cowboy is all male and masculine, and later film and television dramas in which the cowboy always rides on horseback, wears cool hats and boots, carries guns with him, and can also hold beautiful people, although the real cowboy is only a horseback laborer hired by the rancher, and the daily work is to constantly drive away other people's cows and drive back their own cattle.
Even the status of cowboys at that time was very low, the income was low, they were not respected, they were not loved by women, real cowboys would not carry guns, which was not allowed, and they would not always ride on horseback because they did not have their own horses, horses were not cheap, their mounts were provided by ranchers, and more often they liked to ride camels.
In this way, there is no difference between cowboys in the western United States and Chinese cattle herders, take the herders in Inner Mongolia, the ancient nomads actually lived very hard, against the wind and sun grazing, the grazing process can not be relaxed for a moment, to prevent cattle and sheep from running away, but also to prevent some wild animals from stealing cattle, ancient herders herd cattle are mainly to exchange materials with the Han people in the south, such as grain, cloth, porcelain, tea and various living materials or used to pay taxes. They themselves are reluctant to eat beef and mutton, so the cowboys in the western United States and the Chinese cattle herders are essentially the same, they are all working people, but the American cowboys are laborers, our Chinese cattlemen are herding their own cattle, and there are still a large number of herders in northern China, so does the United States still have cowboys?
Have you ever wondered why the American West denim disappeared and the American cowboy culture endured? In fact, the western cowboy did not disappear, although in the mid-1980s, the American cowboy lifestyle was declared to end, the heyday of the American western cowboy, from 1865 to 1890, only existed for a short period of 25 years, when 40% of the land in the United States was used for animal husbandry, beef supply was oversupplied, resulting in a sharp drop in prices, many ranches went bankrupt, in the winter of 1886 a major storm destroyed tens of thousands of cattle, desperate ranchers began to install barbed wire fences to control the feeding of cattle, Cowboys were no longer needed to graze, so cowboys disappeared.
However, cowboy culture has not withdrawn from history, oregon in the northwest of the United States has also preserved many cowboy relics, Oregon has a vast territory, mountains and rivers, there are many verdant meadows and pastures, many people are still working for grasslands and pastures, cowboy culture is also continuing to inherit, some rural areas in the United States have also preserved some forms of cowboy culture, such as cowboy competition, cowboy competition has no saddle riding wild horses or bison, must persist for how many seconds not to be thrown down by wild horses even if they win, and slave cows, set cattle, Bullfighting and other activities.
And in northern China, there are now a large number of herders, but their lives are no longer as hard as in the past, like inner Mongolia, these grassland pastoral areas, although they seem to live in remote and backward grasslands, in fact, many are really invisible rich, and now our domestic herders' daily life is also integrated with high-tech elements, you can even use the aerial camera to observe the livestock situation at a long distance, compared to the past must ride a horse to track easy and comfortable, and cattle can also be installed locator, Without leaving the household mobile phone can check the location of their own cattle, both worry-free and reassuring, like this kind of smart pasture, Inner Mongolia has a lot, smart grazing has changed not only the nomadic life of grassland herders who have lived in water and grass for thousands of years, but also confirmed that the mainland has made great progress in both science and technology and animal husbandry.
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