The golden autumn festival is the time for the Kazakh herdsmen of the Aletai prairie in Xinjiang to start a large transfer of the field, and hundreds of thousands of pastoral herdsmen have formed a continuous and vast army, where the dust flies and the dust is rolling, which has become a unique wind line in Xinjiang's Aletai grassland.
Kazakh is one of the most famous nomadic people in the world. It is also called "horseback nation". From their childhood, they were valiant, tough, capable of singing, dancing and riding, and still maintained primitive life styles in many places.
In October, the Kazakh herdsmen, like migratory birds, migrate from the higher summer pastures to the autumn pastures and eventually reach the ground of over a hundred kilometers. The traditional way of life like them has lasted for nearly 3000 years. In ancient Chinese history books, the nomadic people's political power was once known as "running the country".
Some Kazakh herdsmen in Aletai, Xinjiang also maintain the traditional nomadic habits of the people who live by water. These are the scenes I snapped from Kanas to Urumqi.
The autumn day of the Aletai grassland is a golden yellow.
This is on a highway from Buerjin to Karamay, where the herdsmen, with their flocks, blend into the sunrise blonde light, raise the dust of the sky, and look more like a heavy oil painting.
They are like the people who chase the sun.
This is waiting for the transfer house.
Sometimes too many animals and rough roads lead them to the highways.
Causing a brief traffic jam or a breathtaking scene.
A herd of cattle that waits for the turn in the morning light.
The cattle are more rambling and the passages needed are wider.
Before you roar, it must be a horse's turn. If you're not ready, you can take a picture.
Camels mostly undertake transportation work in transit.
Often the hostess is riding the lead camel with her child, and the other camels are broken into several parts of the yurt and all their families.
Men ride horses, cattle, sheep, horses and other animals. Where to go, where is the camp at night.
Lovable, they also set up the aircraft carrier style.
In recent years, with the gradual expansion of the Xinjiang herdsmen settlement project, the Kazakh herdsmen are gradually decreasing, and this spectacular scene will be rare in the future.
Nomadic civilization is a primitive way of life, a habit in the eyes of onlookers. However, on the Eurasian continent, it is precisely this kind of nomad who has been competing with the farming people for more than 30 centuries, composing almost all the history of the ethnic group in this region.
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