Deep tour in Kashgar, Xinjiang: Seeing the suburbs of this small western town, you have these feelings.

Kashgar, Xinjiang, the main city of this city is not big, and it used to be smaller.

Before 1950s, the main city of Kashgar was in a mess. Two or three kilometers from Fiona Fang, there are several mounds. The surrounding houses are scattered like chess pieces, and no one cares about weeds everywhere. The tomb is hidden in it. At that time, people in Kashgar lived in the same place. Cities are not like cities, and homes are not like homes.

Suburb of Kashgar

With the continuous beautification of Kashgar's urban landscape and the rapid development of people's living standards, the old city of Kashgar has taken on a new look. In recent years, the tourism boom in Kashgar is surging, and the locals know how to follow suit. As a result, many areas have been built into scenic spots, while the aborigines in the old city have been moved to a little farther away.

It's a long way, but for mainland tourists who commute for an hour or two every day by subway, that distance can only be regarded as a suburb. Once I walked from the ancient city of Kashgar to Seman Township in the west. I spent about four or five hours walking, filming and eating. It's only about 5 kilometers away, but it feels sparsely populated.

The main city of Kashgar is very small, about 3 kilometers away from the center of the old city or even out of the city. Therefore, traveling to Kashgar and spending a few days in the main city attractions seems to have nothing to play. In fact, all the fun in Kashgar is in the suburbs, and the most delicious Uighurs live in the suburbs.

At present, a large area of wheat fields has been planted in the suburbs of Kashgar. There are gurgling streams flowing through the fields, and there will be fish in the streams. This kind of scenery is not far away, but tourists often can't find it. Are hidden behind the houses of those Uighur families.

There are also Kashgar youths secretly dating in the Woods.

A brand-new asphalt road has been paved in the suburbs of Kashgar, which is straight and flat, but you will see chickens, ducks and geese scattered on the lawn beside the road, and you are not afraid of taxis flying by. In Kashgar, the alternating collision between new attractions and old lifestyles is staged every day.

This kind of "collision" often leads to some interesting things.

For example, I once took a bus in Kashgar and saw a Uighur woman push her bike onto the bus-

Some things are not strange to the local people, but they are novel to us, which is also one of the pleasures of traveling in Kashgar.

Many lush forest paths can also be found in the suburbs of Kashgar. Modern monitoring systems are installed on both sides of the path, and there are no Chinese characters on the billboards on the roadside, which shows that Han people don't come here often.

Old Uighur women sitting on the roadside will look at us curiously.

With the outward expansion of the city, the smell of reinforced concrete is getting heavier and heavier, and such paths are pushed farther and farther and less common.

There are many new buildings in the suburbs of Kashgar. The more serious gray buildings are office buildings, and the brightly colored ones are the residential areas of Kashgar locals.

Deep travel

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A closer look at the life, community planning and road facilities of local Uighurs in Kashgar seems to be not much different from those in the mainland. There are also cars parked downstairs, but there are more motorcycles.

In Kashgar, motorcycles are the main means of transportation. Whenever we rush to work in the morning and get off work at night, the main roads in Kashgar will be crowded with family motorcycles. This kind of scene is very common in third-and fourth-tier cities in China, some cities in Southeast Asia, and Taipei and Kaohsiung in Taiwan Province Province of China.

Therefore, when we take more roads, wherever we go, we can judge the current development level of a city according to the similarity of local people's living habits.

According to my observation and understanding, the replacement and change of transportation means represent the "nodes" of a city at different stages of development.

With the popularization of "urban-rural integration" and the continuous construction and increase of high-rise residential buildings in the suburbs of Kashgar, the means of transportation in Kashgar have gradually changed from horse-drawn carriages to bicycles, buses, motorcycles and private cars, and subways may be built in the future.

Just like these megacities, this is a necessary stage for every city to grow up.

Nowadays, the life of Kashgar people is undergoing many subtle changes unconsciously every day, which is particularly obvious in children.

Children living in villages on the outskirts of Kashgar learn to wear uniform uniforms and bright red scarves at school every day;

Teenagers who leave school will quietly learn to ride their parents' motorcycles on the path under the century-old willow tree at the entrance of their yard;

When we pass by them, they will wave generously ... ...

Without a wide space, they avoid playing on the floor and walk on the hard concrete floor with brand-new schoolbags on their backs. Children's clothes are getting simpler and simpler, and many learning tools are imported brands.

children

For Uighurs living in the suburbs of Kashgar, most of the children at home are "free-range". Many times, when mom and dad are working, the child climbs aside. Children in Kashgar were particularly cute when they were young. Their eyes were very big and black, like crystal clear glass balls, and their foreheads were full, like dolls.

In Kashgar, every family has many children, and seldom say "only child", so their childhood is not lonely at all.

When I picked up the camera to take pictures of the children, their parents also cooperated. These parents are also very young, many of them got married and had children in their early twenties, and most of them are happy to share their daily lives.

This is different from northern Xinjiang, where people are more resistant to cameras, while Kashgar people in southern Xinjiang enjoy the feeling of being valued and liked.

Uighur women in Kashgar, in particular, will soon pack up their clothes and equipment and sit up straight. In their eyes, taking a group photo as a souvenir is a serious matter, or a ceremony, which should be taken seriously.

The trip to Kashgar continues. There are not only Uighurs in Kashgar, but also many other nationalities.

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.