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In the cold place, Mohe City is one of the most reminiscent places in China, where the winter is cold and snowy all year round, bringing endless cold and bitter cold to people.
However, compared to the village of Oymyakon in Russia, how do the residents of Oymyakon cope with such extreme cold and live their daily lives?
The village of Oymyakon, located in Eastern Siberia, is an extremely harsh place, where winters are long and extremely cold, with temperatures averaging around -50.
This makes it one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere in winter, even colder than the North Pole, and the village is also known for its large annual temperature differences, which can vary by up to 100 percent, meaning that living here is a challenge for people to live in with very cold winters and relatively cool summers.
The climate of Oymyakon is continental, with a significant annual and diurnal temperature difference, with a short summer of only 14 years and a slightly cooler average temperature, but winter is the main character, lasting for several months.
Oymyakon, a place of 500 inhabitants with a unique and difficult lifestyle, has been home to many families for generations.
Most of the inhabitants live by hunting, but there are also dairy cows and reindeer farming, and there used to be a milk processing plant, which closed in October 2007.
In order to ensure that the cows are not harmed by the cold, the residents of Oymyakon village have adopted a special method of protection – they wrap the cows' udders in leather bags.
They intelligently freeze fresh milk and store it properly in a cellar 1 meter deep underground to maintain its quality and freshness, a clever way to store it so that they can enjoy delicious dairy products throughout the winter season.
They make the most of local resources and experience to ensure that their dairy products are not affected by the cold**, so that they can continue to enjoy the taste of milk.
In the village of Oymyakon, the cold winter brings harsh survival challenges. The average winter temperature here can be as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius and can even drop to a staggering minus 712 degrees, moreover, two whole months shrouded in darkness, living in extremely harsh conditions.
In such an environment, the inhabitants have to do everything they can to stay warm, and they have to rely on killing animals and using blood to keep warm, which is also a necessary choice for their survival, because this special type of heating can provide valuable heat and energy to survive in the extremely cold winter.
The extreme cold in the village of Oymyakon brings many inconveniences to everyday life, and here the temperature is unimaginably low, which can lead to a series of problems.
Pen ink freezes, glass lenses freeze and crack, battery power drains quickly, and locals warn that car engines must run around the clock, and even a slight shutdown may not restart, and even with cell phone network coverage, mobile phones can hardly be used in extreme cold weather.
In this bitterly cold environment, people's daily lives are facing enormous challenges, even the most common items and equipment are affected by extremely low temperatures, and everyone must find ways to deal with these problems and find solutions that are more reliable and adaptable to cold environments.
The residents of Oymyakon know that they must be well prepared for these conditions, and they need to be vigilant at all times, especially when it comes to car use and mobile phone communication.
The land in the village of Oymyakon is covered with frozen soil, which means that the inhabitants have to take special measures when building their houses, which are built on wooden piles buried deep in the ground, at a distance of at least 1 meter from the ground.
This is to avoid building directly on frozen soil, because the heat generated indoors may thaw the foundation and cause the house to collapse, and in order to cope with this problem, their house is not only particularly thick, but also has five or six layers of doors and windows to resist the invasion of the cold outside.
In order to deal with the problem of frozen water pipes, the water pipes will not be buried in the ground, but will be laid on the ground, and heating stations will be set up along the way to keep the water in the water pipes from freezing, which not only avoids the problem of water pipes being frozen, but also facilitates maintenance and repair.
Residents of Oymyakon village have had to take special measures in the face of extreme cold weather, even going to the toilet.
Because the weather is too cold, the excrement can easily freeze quickly, resulting in unclean washing, so when residents go out to the toilet, they need to bring a wooden stick to break up the frozen excrement and make sure it is rinsed.
Oymyakon village has few modern facilities, most of the villagers have to leave their homes to use toilets, and rely on burning coal or wood for heating.
In the absence of coal**, the power station will switch to wood as fuel to maintain the power supply, and if there is a power outage, the entire village will not be able to function normally for 5 hours, and the water pipes may freeze and burst.
Despite this, many villagers still have computers and have access to slower internet speeds, and imported sweets and biscuits can be found in this remote location.
However, most of the villagers' food is still traditional frozen fish sticks and horse meat, which are kept in caves dug from under the houses and accessed through a trapdoor, usually from the kitchen, and despite the harsh living conditions, the Yakuts stick to their traditions and love their way of life.
In freezing weather conditions, the residents of Oymyakon village also faced a problem when dealing with the deceased, in order to bury the deceased, they had to light a pile of coal to burn for hours so that the frozen soil began to thaw.
They would then move the hot coal aside and begin digging the grave, which they would continue to light to thaw the soil while lighting a campfire, repeating the process several times, and it could take up to three days to dig a grave large enough to hold a coffin.
In the village of Oymyakon, despite the many inconveniences that life does face, the villagers have a special sense of well-being, and it is interesting to note that many of the elderly people in this place have the advantage of longevity.
Oymyakon was famous during the Soviet era for its many long-lived elderly people, the availability of pure air and water, as well as an active lifestyle and healthy eating habits, which may well have played a key role in longevity.
According to Dr. Novgorodov at the local clinic, the child mortality rate here has always been high, and only newborns who are very healthy and healthy in all aspects survive.
Today, Dr. Novgorodov himself is 71 years old and his assistant is 72 years old, however, the clinic does not have a special operating room, not even an X-ray machine, and despite having only 11 beds, patients are still rushing to see them, because hospitals in other regions are reluctant to accept them.
The inhabitants of Oymyakon make a living from reindeer breeding, hunting and fishing, however, amazingly, they are not malnourished due to the harsh living conditions.
The secret is the animal milk that the residents consume, which is rich in a variety of trace elements, and they also pick wild berries to supplement their nutrition, according to the doctor.
The residents of Oymyakon have a love for the harsh climate and are eager to live a harsh winter, believing that the cold is good for their health and removes bacteria.
For them, this is the place they want to live the most, because it is a place where they can hunt and fish, and although life may seem difficult, they enjoy clean air, pure food, mushrooms and berries, so they are happy and content.
In this village, there are also amazing longevity people. Andrei Danilov, a 100-year-old Tunguska who lives on reindeer, can live in canvas tents and withstand the cold outdoors when the temperature reaches -60.
His parents died at the age of 117 and 108 respectively, and his friends, Aliyan and Afrosnia, live in a yurt and recently adopted a girl.
Almost never getting sick, they told us that the secret to their longevity was to regularly consume two types of dairy products called "Hayek" and "Djorcech".
In addition to a healthy diet, Oymyakon is also known for a specialty dish – raw frozen fish fillet, where locals catch delicious fish such as sturgeon, autumn whitefish and broad-nosed whitefish and cut them into thin slices as soon as they are frozen.
They take great care when skinning the fish, retaining each thin layer of subcutaneous fat, which is rich in heart-healthy and anti-aging -3 fatty acids, a special food that is more than just a dish, but also a symbol of longevity for the people of Oymyakon.
Although the villagers of Oymyakon live in the extremely cold land of Siberia, facing extremely low temperatures and living difficulties, they still love their hometown, which is not convenient but full of love for their homeland.
It's not because of the pleasant climate in Oymyakon, or because they enjoy a life of luxury. Instead, they faced extreme cold and grueling challenges, yet it was the environment that shaped their resilience and made them value every inch of their homeland even more.