Riding the wind of rebirth

"So what my cousin just sang was the language of your nation?" Zhou Zhi continued to ask.

"No, we also speak Uyghur now." Xia Milili said: "Many of our ethnic groups now speak Uyghur."

"Oh." Zhou Zhi felt that his trivia knowledge had increased: "I was just wondering why the tune of this song is so familiar. Now that I think about it, this song is very similar to the song "Lift Your Hijab"!"

"This is the characteristic of "Ariya"." Xu's father said with a smile: "The Uzbek folk songs mainly include "Upal" and "Ariya". "Upal" is a folk wedding song and dance song with a musical structure It is convoluted, the melody is simple and vivid, and the mood is cheerful and enthusiastic. Once you start, you can actually keep singing and never end.”

"And 'Aria' is mainly a song to persuade the bride to get married. It is sung when sending off the bride at a wedding. The melody is short and unique, and the music is a two-phrase answer style."

"Elbow, you said it's very similar to "Lift Your Hijab", and that's absolutely right, because if you look at the lyrics of "Lift Your Hijab", it's actually a song to persuade people to marry, even though one of the two songs is One is Uzbek and one is Uyghur, but the content is actually close, the nature is the same, and the tunes and instruments are mostly similar."

"It's a bit interesting." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "It's like the Chinese lyrics, such as "Huanxisha", the structure and the requirements for level are the same. If the tune is not lost, it is one, but the lyrics filled in by each person are different. of,"

"That's what I mean!" Xia Mili said with a smile: "Honey, you know how to sing "Lift Your Hijab"? If you can sing that song, you can learn "Girl with Black Eyebrows" in just a matter of minutes! I'll teach you!"

Next, everyone looked at the scenery and sang while driving. Xia Mili switched to Chinese this time, but the taste of the unique pronunciation remained the same. Zhou Zhi also deliberately imitated that accent, which annoyed Sun Gong and Xu behind. Father laughed.

Later, the two of them also joined in, and everyone roared and sang all the way while running on the road surrounded by vast neighbors and rolling snow-capped mountains on both sides.

Four hours later, we switched to Zhou Zhi Driving. It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and the music in the car had been changed to soothing light music. The starry sky in the sky was extremely clear, and countless stars were shining.

In the rearview mirror, half of the moon is rising behind.

Another poem came to Zhou Zhi's mind.

Pedestrians walked towards the horse, pointing directly to Jicheng.

Jicheng is connected to the north of the desert, and it is far away from my hometown for thousands of miles.

There are thousands of beacons on the sea and hundreds of battlefields in the sand.

The military letter was sent to the county, and the spring scenery was in Heyang.

The willows of the Han Palace are curling up, and the mulberry trees are green and green.

The pipa plays the music, and the horizontal flute breaks your heart.

As we chatted, everyone became quiet. Only the soft music, the bright stars in front, the cold moon behind, and the reed swamps and silver-white lake on the side of the road accompanied us as we moved forward.

That is the famous Bosten Lake, and next we will enter the entrance to the Yanqi Basin and the entrance to the desert - Tiemenguan.

After passing the Iron Gate Pass, you will reach Korla. After finding the Tarim River, the journey will completely leave the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains and plunge into the Tarim Basin.

The next halfway destination is Ruoqiang, a branch of the Kunlun Mountains that is located at the end of the Tarim River and confronts the Tianshan Mountains across the Taklimakan Desert. It is an important settlement at the northern foot of the Altyn Mountains.

Only now did Zhou Zhi feel that everyone was taking care of him. At twelve o'clock in the evening, the car was still two hours away from Ruoqiang, and Sun Gong replaced him.

It will be eight o'clock tomorrow morning when I take control of the steering wheel again. Zhou Zhi can actually sleep in the car tonight.

Northern Xinjiang and the mainland are not in the same time zone. Eight o'clock here is equivalent to six o'clock in the morning in the mainland, just in time to welcome the dawn.

Of course, it is also possible that Xu's father made the arrangement specifically out of worry that he would not be able to keep up with his physical and energy as he drove vigorously and resolutely from the capital today without rest.

It is impossible to sleep well, but as a young man who is good at staying up late, light sleep is enough to meet the rest needs.I rocked gently in the car, occasionally waking up a few times, and then fell asleep again. When the car clock showed eight o'clock, the sky just started to brighten.

The car stopped in the Cheerchen Valley, and everyone got out of the car to do some simple grooming. Sun Gong found some dry firewood from the bushes and lit a fire to cook milk tea, grilled naan, beef and mutton for everyone.

The morning in the Gobi Desert is also spectacular and beautiful. The sun is about to rise in the east, and purple clouds are already showing on the horizon. The moon on the other side has not yet set, stubbornly showing a trace of light purple in the sky.

"Look! Wild camels!" Sun Gong pointed at the Populus euphratica forest in the valley in the distance with the wooden stick he was holding on to the fire.

A big camel ran out of the Populus euphratica forest, and there was a small camel beside it, running towards a group of camels that could only see a few smaller ones in the distance.

"That's a newborn baby camel." Xia Milili put his hand on the arbor and looked over there: "Now is the peak period for camels to give birth. The female camel will leave the herd and find a hidden and safe place to give birth to the baby camel. Then take it back to the group.”

Zhou Zhi looked at the mother and son of camels trying to herd in the thin morning mist of the river valley. His heart was filled with awe of nature and he felt the greatness of life. He couldn't help but put his hands to his mouth and shouted: "Live well——"

"It seems that our luck in this industry is not bad." Xu's father said: "It is auspicious to encounter a wild camel giving birth."

Sun Gong sighed: "It may not be a real wild camel, it may be a domestic camel that has returned to the wild. After all, real wild camels are too rare now."

"Are wild camels rare?" Zhou Zhi didn't know much about this aspect.

"There used to be a lot of them in this area," Sun Gong said, "The northern slope of the Altun Mountains was their main breeding ground."

"This area has many wild grasses and shrubs such as tamarisk, camel thorn, splendens, and white thorn that they like to eat."

"However, they were often killed by hunters, and then there were very few of them. It wasn't until they were listed as national first-level protected animals that things began to improve."

"Is the wild camel still at the national level?" Zhou Zhi was shocked: "The same as the giant panda?"

"Yes." Sun Gong sighed again: "But our wild camels are not as good as your pandas."

"Indeed, among all national first-class animals, pandas, golden monkeys, and crested ibises have received the most attention." Zhou Zhi nodded and said what he knew: "The first two are really cute, and the latter one is It has a relatively large international influence, and people in the island country regard it as a sacred bird and have cooperated with China on many scientific research and protection projects.”

"Even animal protection is about good looks."

"Hahahaha..." This witticism successfully made Sun Gong laugh. He piled the baked naan on top of the barbecue and handed it to Zhou Zhi: "Let's have breakfast. Pour the milk tea in the pot yourself."

"Speaking of which, if you pass Ruoqiang, you will enter the jade-producing area. Ruoqiang produces a beautiful kind of topaz, called Ruoqiang yellow mouth material. It also produces black jade and sapphire."

"Next, Minfeng, Yutian, Hotan, and jade materials will get better and better."

"Huh?" Zhou Zhi didn't realize it until now: "Isn't the valley below the Hotan River? The Hotan River is the river connecting Koslash and Alar."

"Huh?" Sun Gong was even more happy: "After doing this for a long time, which way do you think we are going?"

Xu's father also smiled: "There is no good road built along the Hotan River now. The road we are taking now is the east line of Taklimakan, which goes around the eastern edge of the desert."

"The middle line is the road connecting Luntai and Minfeng. This road directly crosses the desert."

"There is also a western route, which takes Aksu, Yarkand, and Yecheng to Hotan, but it goes along the west side of the desert."