Go to road trip, Xinjiang

After staying in Tashkurgan for a while, I went to road trip, and my face gradually thickened [covered my face]. Show in:

The curiosity of the whole car has never been stronger, and it has gradually risen to the point where when you see whose house is beautiful, you can't help but stop and run over and ask if you can go in and have a look. No, we can smell the flowers in this family's yard every few tens of meters.

The village was empty and no other houses were seen along the way, so this family was particularly abrupt.

The open space in front of this family is very large, just like a parking lot. We parked in one of the "parking spaces" and prepared to knock on the door. At this moment, a Tajik girl came out of the room.

Surrounded by a bunch of people, the girl can't be cured in an instant. We quickly explained: Don't be afraid, we are just passing tourists. Your home is really beautiful. Can we go in and take some photos?

The girl looked fifteen or sixteen. She nodded shyly and let us in. ...

The girl has standard facial features and golden brown hair. Her lips are naturally orange-pink, with thick eyelashes and a slender neck. First we took pictures around her, but she was obviously more interested in the scenery we left in the camera along the way.

The girl said that mom and dad were out, and she was with her pet rabbit. I was going to ask her if she had a married sister, but on second thought, it didn't seem to matter. The Guangdong girl on the bus reminded us not to ask about other people's affairs.

This is an improved version of Tajik farmhouse, with an estimated area of 8,800 square meters.

It retains the general outline of the residential buildings in Ayiwang, but the doors and windows are made of aluminum alloy, and a whole set of tables and chairs are added in the small living room, giving people the illusion of combining Chinese and western elements-in fact, there are not many western elements at all.

Tajik houses living in Ta county have one characteristic: they are big and used to it.

And this "big" is "infinite" in many cases. Anyway, there are not many other families within a few kilometers. Even if you put a shelf here, you can play tennis with the whole village.

Bypassing the main house, I found that this is actually a courtyard with two entrances, a wing and a storage room, and an open-air kitchen behind it.

In fact, there is always a lot of inertia in people's life, just like Yun-peng Yue, who is worth millions, still loves to eat jiaozi made by his family. No matter how the external form of home life and the quality of life are improved, it is difficult to change a person's eating habits, which are brought out from the roots and completely inherited from the family. So:

The kitchen of this family still retains the elements of the original Tajik version of the rural earthen stove. Many traditional delicacies of this nation, such as ghee highland barley naan, Altzke (oil fruit) and Catilla horse (thousand-layer cake), have inherited the classic flavor of 2000, which cannot be perfectly restored by gas and rice cookers.

In Tashan county, many families also set up pits specially, which is the habit of almost all Tajiks I visited in Tashkurgan.

Of course, the inheritance of Tajiks' blood is not only a food custom, but also an innate "undefended" quality:

In Ta county, so far many rural families have no habit of locking the door. Sometimes they get a simple chain and go out to work. Including the Tajik girl we visited this time, the gate seems to be just for decoration, but it is actually useless.

There is another situation: even if the gate is locked and the courtyard wall is short, one hand can turn one side of the body in. Especially now, earth walls are out of fashion. Many people's courtyard walls have been replaced by metal fences, and flowers have been planted along the roots of the walls. The scenery is relaxed and pleasant, but it is more "transparent" and unsafe. However, Tajik friends told me that Tashkurgan is "one of the counties with the best public security in Xinjiang", and there are few reports of theft.

After bidding farewell to the girl, we are going to the next destination to enjoy the scenery along the way:

The mountains in Ta County always make people feel very close, so they never give people the feeling of "endless". Just as people have to build a circle of walls to surround themselves before they can be practical, I always feel that "surrounded by mountains" feng shui can give people a long spiritual comfort.

Later, we also went to many places by car, but Tashkurgan's "steady" feeling is always unforgettable.

I'm Sister Dahong, the anchor of the audio radio travel channel, a professional traveler, focusing on minority games and sharing unpopular destinations. Travel is not an attitude, but life itself.