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On August 22, 2022, the family of China's last female chief, Maria So, issued an obituary saying that Maria Sou died at the age of 101 next to her beloved reindeer. This revered and admirable female chief completed her legendary life!
Goodbye to the last female chief! As soon as the news of her death came out, it boiled on the Internet to let everyone know that there was such a female chieftain in China! Today Xiaobian takes you into the reindeer world of Maria Sou!
Maria So – The last female chief of the Linglu tribe who lived deep in the forests of the Xing'an Mountains, and the last shaman of the Orunchun clan. She came from the most prosperous primitive era of the Evenk people, witnessed the tribe migrating in the forest with the climate and reindeer, close to nature, enjoying all the memories of the forest feeding, they silently took on the responsibility of protecting the forest from the hands of poachers, and maintained the ecological balance in the forest with the living beings in awe-inspiring way.
However, times changed, trucks drove into the forest, the tribesmen walked down the forest, and the female chief, who retained all the memories of China's last hunting primitive tribe, also left.
Gu Tao, an independent documentary filmmaker who has been working with the Evenk people for many years, recorded the words left by the female chief to this era in his book "Aoluguya Aoluguya".
"We are a weak frontier nation, who have come by hunting, and our ancestors have lived in the big forest for generations, guarding the mountains. We have our own tradition, we have shotguns, and we are the only reindeer-keeping nation in China. Unlike other peoples, we should protect our own national things.
We are very close to nature, living our own lives We don't need too much money, there is everything in the big forest, we can be self-sufficient, we respect nature, we respect nature, we don't want future generations to abandon this primitive way of raising reindeer, this is the last thing I want to see!
She is also the protagonist of the contradictory literary award-winning novel "The Right Bank of the Erguna River", Maria Suo inherits China's unique reindeer culture, still raising reindeer in the mountains in her 90s, and after her husband's death, because she was good at hunting and domesticating reindeer, she became the last female chief of China's deer tribe!
Maria So's heart is very quiet, she does not pursue fame and fortune, does not worship money, her heart only has reindeer, reindeer are her family, are her friends, and live with them every day is happy!
In the book "Aoluguya Aoluguya" I learned how much Maria So love reindeer, love reindeer, they walk in the summer with dewdrops, eat with butterflies and flowers around their ears, drink water can see fish swimming in the water, and in winter they can see red beans buried under the snow when they cut through the snow and eat moss. It turns out that the place where the reindeer live is so beautiful!
In the book Aoluguya Aoluguya, we also learned how Maria Sou thinks about her longevity. She said: "The wind can hear my illness, the running water can hear my illness, the moonlight can hear my illness, the disease is the secret flower buried in my heart, I have never seen a doctor in a health center in my life, I can live to be 90 years old in my life, proving that I did not choose the wrong doctor, my doctor is the breeze and flowing water, the stars of April ..."
Maria. Suo said that I can live a long and healthy life because of the nourishment of the big forest, I have not seen a doctor, and yes, she has lived to the age of 101 in the Daxinganling forest!
There is also a book called "My Reindeer My Dream" that also details the life of the female chief! She said: "I loved reindeer when I was a child, I was born by the rapids, this rapids I never left, when I was a child, there were very few reindeer in my family, only one, every time I moved, the reindeer walked in front, our children followed behind, from this forest to that forest, whether it was windy or rainy we kept walking, the only reindeer was really our family's treasure!" ”
My dad was a good hunter, our family of reindeer from the beginning of the one to the later dozen or so reindeer, when I got married, my family of ten brothers and sisters, I was the only girl in the family, my dad gave me six reindeer as a dowry! At that time, it was already very good, and many girls did not have reindeer as a dowry!
My man, who is 20 years older than me, is a matchmaker made for me by my father, his name is Rajimi, he is very capable, he is a famous hunter, he can find reindeer, he is very family-oriented, and he is obedient. When I was young, I ran fast, when I caught the fawn, I ran fast, even men admired, when I was in my 40s, I was the most deer, so much that I couldn't catch it, I think it was the happiest moment!
Before moving without a car, things were tied to the back of deer, a trip to move over, with reindeer, Evenk people live steadily, each time you move 15 heads can almost help move the end, food, clothes, etc. are called reindeer driving!
One year there was a snow storm, and the snow was so deep that the reindeer walked in the snow, showing only a small tail, and we cut down the tree and let the reindeer eat the moss on the tree, so that not a single deer died. We have encountered many difficulties and disasters in the process of reindeer breeding, but we have all carried them!
Later, my reindeer became more and more numerous, and the reindeer raised by the people in the clan also multiplied very quickly, and soon the Daxinganling forest became lively, the bells of the reindeer jingle bells rang throughout the Daxing'anling Mountains, and more and more tourists came from all over the world to experience our unique local reindeer culture!
Maria. Suo's life is great, selfless, she dedicated her life to the reindeer, did not have children, but raised this herd of reindeer, so that the reindeer this precious wild animal can be protected, she is a great chief, goodbye, the last female chief of China!
【Editor: Ouyang Acai】
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