The global tour | I was in Bahrain
Hello everyone, I am Shen Dianqi, a field traveler who travels the world and pays attention to Chinese people around the world.
This time I met a Bahraini Sunni friend, Kiber, who was very well educated, so I talked to him a lot.
Last night I visited Kiber's home, which is located in the middle of the island of Bahrain, which is a relatively high-lying place in Bahrain.
1, Kiber's hometown has been a bird domestication since ancient times
Let's simply divide Bahrain into three parts.
The central part is the capital, and in ancient times the traditional industry was commerce and an important maritime terminal.
The traditional industry in the eastern town is fishing.
In the south of Kiber's hometown, the traditional industry is bird hunting. Images of traditional Bird Taming by Bahrainis can be seen at Bahraini airports.
2, can not blow things
When I got to Kiber's house, I found that his dad looked to be nearly 60 years old, but his English was very good and he was very outgoing. Locals would sit around the courtyard outside the living room drinking Arabic coffee and then chatting.
Then they poured me Arabic coffee, and because it was so hot, I blew it...
His dad said, you can't blow, and in the YSL doctrine, you can't blow things while you're sitting, it's bad behavior.
I said, oh, I'm sorry.
Then his dad talked to me about Shiites, and his dad asked me if I knew what Shia was?
I said, of course I know, I've been to Iran.
His father said that the Shiites believed that people would be reincarnated, and they believed that there would be a next life, which was simply heretical... Are you saying this is shoe teaching?
I thought to myself, "It's about me."
His dad and I continued to chat, saying that China is very strong and will become the most powerful country in the world in the future, and China is growing at an alarming rate.
Where did you get all the information about China when I said that?
The old man was a little upset to hear that, I was very well educated, I had a lot of land... (In short, it means not to underestimate him)
3, the family of birds taming
Then, we go into the living room of his house, and you will find that there are many award photos in his house.
Kiber introduced me one by one.
This is 1975 National Geographic magazine or which magazine, took a picture of Bahrain, very famous, and the person above is his uncle.
This was Kiber's older brother, who had caught a huge fish in Oman. He said that the people in our hometown have lived either by hunting or fishing for generations, and have never farmed.
His dad won the award, he said, and his dad was the strongest bird hunter in Bahrain and in the top ten in overseas countries.
Kiber's grandfather, great-grandfather
His father told me that in the Middle East, bird hunting is a very expensive sport, which is equivalent to the "golf" of the Arab world and belongs to the aristocratic sport. In Saudi Arabia, for example, only the royal family and the wealthy can usually afford to play the movement.
First of all, you have to have a lot of outdoor equipment, you have to have an off-road vehicle, you have to have a variety of navigation positioning, you need to find prey, and the Saudi royal family will also be equipped with super HD cameras to record the whole hunt.
4, go to their backyard to see the birds
Then, Kiber took me to his cousin's house, his cousin's house has 5 birds, the specific name of everyone to check it out, I don't know. In short, their birds originate in Iran.
They said that the best quality birds in the bird taming industry are in Iran, and then in Mongolia, in The Arab countries, and I said that Kazakhstan seems to have ah, and he said that the quality of birds in Kazakhstan is not good.
When they got to their backyard, they could see four or five different species of birds, staying in the air-conditioned room. It turns out that these birds can't stand temperatures above 25 degrees, and if they do, they will get sick.
His cousin pointed to a sluggish-eyed bird and said that this one was only a little sick.
Their hunting activities are usually in the winter of the Arabian Peninsula, and they sometimes go to Saudi Arabia and sometimes to Oman