More than 300 years ago, a group of Evenks moved from Siberia to the Great Khingan Mountains and established an Evenki reindeer village, which has relied on hunting and domesticating reindeer for generationsAoRuguya, which means a place where poplar forests are abundant.
More than a decade ago, most of the reindeer villagers moved out of the forest and lived in the town, leaving only 14 families to continue to guard the forest and their reindeer.
Nowadays, these only remaining hunters' points are scattered in various places at the northwest foot of the Daxing'an Mountains, hundreds of kilometers apart, because every once in a while, the people of the reindeer village will migrate with the deer herd to a new place to continue their lives.
The simple birch bark of the pluton, the most convenient place to live on the move, has been replaced by warmer and more comfortable tents.
In the evening, the reindeer will enter the deep forest to feed all night, and in the early morning, the reindeer villagers will use birch bark, firewood, deer dung and a kind of grass called Razhbuka to light it, and raise the white smoke to repel insects, and when they see the white smoke, the deer will return to the hunter's place to rest, and this interdependent trust relationship between humans and deer has lasted for hundreds of years.
In late autumn, when the reindeer reach the season of estrus, the male deer who wins the duel will take the herd into the deep forest and never return, and the reindeer village begins to enter the busiest season. In order to avoid attacks by poachers and other animals on the unreturned deer, the people of the reindeer village must immediately go into the mountains to look for deer.
The young villagers want to go to the city to do what they want to do, because they think differently from their parents' generation, and the older generation thinks that inheriting the things of this nation is the most important thing. So it's a bit of a conflict (ideologically), but there's no way around it. The younger generation still chooses to leave the forest, which is also the biggest dilemma faced by the reindeer village.
The process of finding deer can be lengthy, ranging from a few days to a few months, and the ancestors of the reindeer village invented a food that is easy to preserve and carry in order to cope with the long days of life in the wild.
The riba with deer milk is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and the crispy shell locks in moisture and is not easy to deteriorate and rot, and it used to be a must-have staple food for people in reindeer villages to go out hunting and go into the mountains to look for deer.
In the past, when entering the deep forest, in addition to looking for reindeer, the people of the reindeer village could hunt freely here. Hunting has the rules handed down by the ancestors, all of which are naturally observed, and when you encounter ten (prey), only five are killed, and the rest are let go so that they can continue to reproduce, and this is what it means to move frequently. The Evenks do not deliberately fight bears, only in front of the house, which is about four meters away.
Never kill everything, only take what is needed for life, and the people of Reindeer Village use their own laws to protect nature. Now, the glorious hunting history of the reindeer village can only be sealed in this cute bear eagle.
An adult reindeer is worth as much as 40,000 yuan, and the entire deer herd is all the belongings of the people in the reindeer village. Long-term air hunting is the norm for people in reindeer villages when looking for deer. In the days of hunting, the people of the reindeer village will take out the harvested food to share together, and if there is trouble, everyone will not shirk it, sharing and helping each other, this most simple and valuable friendship is only reflected in the mountains and forests.
These people who stayed behind in the reindeer village also tried to leave, but the reindeer died one after another, unable to adapt to the baptism of modern life, and they had to return to the forest again, because they understood that the innate destiny of the reindeer village people, always coexisting with the forest and the reindeer, is the last mission of this small tribe.
According to the excerpt of the documentary "The Great Village", for reference only, invaded and deleted.
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