The Northeast in winter has always been the most desirable place for our southern children, especially Harbin, which has exploded recently, is the place of fantasy of the north when I was a child, and I imagined it, winter is a beautiful silver world, full of the romantic atmosphere of Frozen. It also has a unique architectural style and historical background that no other city has, and when the snow falls little by little in winter, it covers the whole city, making the city magically dressed up as if you are in a fairy tale.
In Heilongjiang, in the open grassland and forest, the snow will be more than a meter thick at most, which can make people walk on it, but they will not fall into it at all, because the snow has been frozen extremely hard, and the snow on the road is firmly stuck to the road.
So when you come here, you can feel the water splashing into ice at minus 30 degrees Celsius, the quiet and simple village in the snow, the ice lanterns, ice sculptures, everything makes people feel like they are in the world of ice and snow fairy tales. But today we are going to talk about a happy sport that belongs exclusively to the northern winter - "horse-drawn plow".
When I first learned about this sport a few years ago in Xinjiang, according to the locals at the time, once the winter begins, the horse-drawn plow climbing competition will become a traditional sports and cultural activity in Xinjiang that is suitable for all ages and has high participation. The horse-drawn plough is a horse-drawn vehicle made of wood, and this sport is also the main means of transportation for local herders in winter.
This time to the Northeast, horse-drawn plow, also known as horse-drawn sleigh, is a common winter vehicle in the countryside of Northeast China in the past, the uncle who drove horses and plows, commonly known as "boss" in Northeast China, has many years of experience in driving carriages.
Now the horse-drawn plow has also become one of the must-play activities for tourists coming to the Northeast. In this cold and windy season, each of us wears a big cotton jacket and two cotton pants, and then buckles a dogskin hat to be like that, and sits on the exclusive luxury car "Ma Yanla's" - horse-drawn plow, and experiences the feeling of shuttling in the "forest and snow".
At the bottom of the plough there are two iron or wood skateboards for contact with the snow, and in front of it is a horse pulling it. And everywhere the plough passes, there will be snowflakes, attracting cheers from tourists, so that the whole process begins to become "hot", and each one will not feel the slightest chill.
According to the locals, the horse-drawn plough is made of flexible birch wood, and when making a U-shaped horse arch, the birch wood is put into a pot of boiling water to be scalded, and after scalding soft, one end is fixed in the mold, and the other end is slowly pushed into the mold. After 7 days, the horse arch took shape. The part of the plough that touches the ground is planed as smooth as a mirror, and as long as the snow falls enough to reach 10 centimeters, the plough can slide no matter how it is without much wear. It's pretty magical!