Me and my hometown – the story of me and my Egchi

Although I was born in Inner Mongolia, I had never seen a Mongolian since I was a child, so I asked my parents, "Do we really have Mongolians here?" Why have I never seen them? My father told me, "The Mongols all live on the steppe, so you don't usually see them." "So I have the impression that the Mongols live on the steppe, live in tents, and ride horses.

It wasn't until I was in high school that I first met a Mongolian in reality, and she was my classmate Wang Siqin, and as my classmate, tablemate, and roommate, I didn't realize at first that she was Mongolian, because her name was very Sinicized and she spoke fluent Chinese. It wasn't until I once heard her call home speaking Mongolian that I realized she was originally Mongolian.

So it immediately aroused my curiosity from childhood to adulthood, and I pulled her and began to ask endlessly: Does your family really live on the prairie, really live in a tent, and ride horses every day? And so on. Sichen looked at my really curious eyes that day, smiled and said to me, "We do live on the prairie, but now we don't live in tents, and we don't ride horses every day." Many years ago we stopped grazing, we already had a fixed dwelling, we had our own fixed pasture, cattle and sheep and a few horses. And in recent years, with the development of grassland tourism, our home has also become a tourist attraction, that is, the Hiramuren grassland, we have re-supported the yurts we used to live in, and used them to entertain tourists from all over the country. We also have more and more income, not only tv, telephone, mobile phone, motorcycle and car at home, but also life is much better than before. It is precisely thanks to the state's care for our ethnic minorities and the return of farmland to forests and grasslands that our grasslands have become as vibrant and beautiful as they are now, and we can have such good tourism resources. It was thanks to this that I was able to come here to school and become a classmate of you. ”

After listening to Wang Siqin's narration, I finally had a clear understanding of the Mongols for the first time, and it turned out that they were so modern. So in the following days, we became good friends who talked about everything, and she often taught me to speak Mongolian, and I also knew that Si qin meant clever and clever in Mongolian. Si Qin grew up in the pastoral area, will have a lot of life skills, compared to my small white "clothes to reach out, rice to open the mouth" I don't know how many times stronger, so Si Qin became a big sister in my life, in life to take special care of me, I will privately call her Ergeqi, Mongolian is the meaning of sister.

Si Qin' time to receive Chinese teaching was relatively short, and I naturally became a good helper in her study, and at the beginning, I asked her very puzzledly: "Why don't you go to a school where Mongolian is taught, and come to this private middle school?" Si Qin said: "The reason why I chose a school taught in Chinese is because I have a dream since I was a child, I want to go to the world outside my hometown to see it, I am very eager for the big cities in Beijing and Shanghai in tv, and envy the women who work in beautiful office buildings, so I chose a high school taught in Chinese, just to be able to learn more knowledge, to be able to learn Chinese and English better, and to better integrate into the new era." ”

Si Qin said that she also has an ideal, that is, to work in a big city like Beijing and Shanghai, to know more people, to contact more information, when she has accumulated enough experience and resources, to make more contributions to her hometown, so that more people know the specialties of their hometown, the beautiful scenery of their hometown; so that their younger brothers and sisters can also have more opportunities to learn, can go out of their hometown, can see a wider world.

From these ideals of SiQin, I saw a modern, open-minded, intelligent, and mongolian with lofty ideals, who did not limit herself to the small area of ethnic minorities and Mongolians, but worked hard to integrate into this new era, and strived to become a modern and fashionable young person with ideals for a new generation of Chinese people.

Although Si Qin did not play well in the college entrance examination and finally went to a local university in our area, we agreed to go to graduate school together in the future, go to the same city and the same university together, and continue our friendship, and I am very much looking forward to the arrival of this day.