Shu Huang has crossed many times back to Daxing'anLing by car, and there is a name that is deeply engraved in the heart, it is "Aolu Guya".
"Aoluguya" means "a place where poplar and birch trees flourish", where the "Evenk people" live, meaning "people who live in the mountains and forests".
"Aoluguya" in the primeval forest at the junction of the forest and grassland, is the place where the Evenk people once lived, they are also the only "deer nation" in China, Shu Huang today to tell the story of them and reindeer.
Now, even if you can walk into the forest, you may not be able to find the figure of the Aoluguya hunters, a branch of the Evenk people, and the last nomadic and deer tribe in China.
The Aoluguya Evenk hunters are known as the living fossils of the peoples of northern China, they are tribes accompanied by natural landscapes, they were always in the patrilineal clan period of primitive society before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and they were the only nation in China that directly entered socialist society from primitive society.
Today, only a very small number of tribes who do not want to leave the forest are still distributed in the vast Daxing'anling Forest, they are the Maria So primitive tribe, the Budongxia primitive tribe, the Uriana primitive tribe, the Suoyulan primitive tribe, the Ancient Gejun primitive tribe and more than a dozen tribes.
The Aoluguya Evenk hunters have been domesticating reindeer since ancient times, and they have a close relationship with reindeer, who have been inseparable from the great forest for generations and have never left the forest in the past.
But now, the vast majority of the Aoluguya hunters have left the forest, and since they have taken away their shotguns and settled in settlements, perhaps the free-spirited personality and skills that the people should have been able to have will only gradually lose, which is the saddest thing.
Today's Aoluguya is located in the Evenk township, which is the settlement place where this ethnic group was resettled, and it is also the only ethnic minority settlement in China that raises reindeer.
Although most of the Evenk people have left the forest to live, many people still only domesticate reindeer and have no other skills, so we can still see the reindeer at the edge of the Daxinganling Forest, which is the symbol of the Evenk nation, which is called "Oren" in Evenk.
These semi-wild reindeer are commonly known as "four unlikes", and at present, there are only 9 countries in the world with more than 20 ethnic groups raising reindeer. The reindeer are predominantly white and brown, they have beautiful antlers, are known as the "boat of the forest", and are the closest companions of the Evenk people.
In the conversation between Shu Huang and the reindeer colony deer keepers, they can feel their deep reluctance for the past of "Aoluguya", they said: "In the past, life in the forest did not feel hard, but now it has lost happiness."
It seems that the life of the community has improved the quality of life of the Aoluguya Evenk people, but in fact, it is the fastest way to consume the customs, skills and lifestyles that have lasted for hundreds of years.
Every time Shu Huang left Aoluguya, he always had infinite emotions in his heart: "How lonely and helpless will the Aoluguya hunters who have lost the forest and reindeer be." How to protect our national culture from dying and losing is a serious topic that requires serious consideration by the whole society.
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