The emergence of exquisite camping has made this lifestyle no longer "bitter with money".

Camping in Tibetan areas is called damming. The core is flat grassland and fine weather in July and August, so it is rich and frugal to play.

The round trip on the same day is not even camping, so there is no need for a tent. Just eat and drink. Hey, isn't this a popular picnic in recent years? If you want to spend the night, it will become camping. In the most primitive and simple way, you don't need a tent. Just set up a strong stick and a tarpaulin. At night, you can get under the tarpaulin and untie the wide Tibetan robe. It will take a night to wrap it. The tarpaulin blocks the night dew condensed due to the temperature drop or unexpected rain. Thick Tibetan robes put people in the middle, which are both cushions and quilts. The casual and enjoyable sleep of a young body is amazing. The most important thing in this kind of camping is probably a pot, a pot and a knife. I wish I could make tea in cook the meat. However, such a natural and wild "camping" is actually rare in the early years, and most people who play bazi have never experienced it.

Dabazi is a great event in Tibetan areas. From the end of July to the beginning of August every year, it is the best season in Tibetan areas. The temperature is not so cold and it is more casual, so many traditional festivals are naturally arranged at this time. A hundred flowers blossom on the grassland, which means that the signal flares calling for friends fill the sky, so everyone goes their own way, flows out of the building where we live every day (yes, we usually live in the building), gathers in one place, builds a tent city that only exists for a few days, holds festivals, and then fills the streets and squares of the tent city with singing, dancing, drinking and competitions, and does it proudly with the output from home. Before Ding Zhen became popular as a wild sweet boy, those rugged Kangba men who did not conform to the mainstream aesthetics but represented Tibetan feelings were mostly selected in such festivals.

If you are familiar with Harry Potter, you can see that the word "tent city" has probably filled up a lot of pictures, just as Mr. Risley said in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when describing the Quidditch World Cup: "When people get together, they can't help but want to show off." Hundreds of tents get together, and everyone is a little competitive. There are few practical daily black tents woven with yak hair, which are thick and warm. At present, people like canvas tents with colorful Tibetan patterns painted on a white background, even decorated with frills, and the slightest trace is flying up and down under the blue sky and white clouds, which is extremely publicity.

Smaller tents are like the living room of an apartment. There is almost no upper limit for the big ones. After all, they are simple in structure and easy to assemble. As long as it can be fixed and equipped with a suitable roof, the size is also determined by people. The appearance of this tent can be seen as luxurious, even ostentation and extravagance. I can't wait to shout: Look, look at my style. The indoor space is spacious and tall, which is an important social space for grassland festivals. Inside the tent, people dance around the circle at any time. In addition to the exit side, there are hidden beds under the three "walls" in the tent. During the day, people can sit on the sofa drinking tea and chatting, and take out the quilt at night, which is a single bed. In front of the Tibetan bed is a row of Tibetan tables, which are short and square, and each table is used as a coffee table. Buttered tea, green tea (brick tea), steamed bread, guokui, tuorou and various exotic fruits are constantly available, and more can be hidden in the belly of Tibetan dining tables. When we eat together, it is a table for a big meal. There are several braziers scattered around the tent, boiling enough green tea, and the golden tent scenery of the grassland monarch in the costume drama.

Seeing this, the exquisite camping that has been popular in the past two years seems to be not grand. Really, such tents are usually powered by generators. Otherwise, how can they dance and accompany each other at night? In addition to the complete set of furniture, electric light speakers and finely divided pots and pans are also indispensable. Around the Big Mac, there is a circle of small camping tents dedicated to sleeping and resting, which is roughly similar to the tents used for camping in the city now. Dampproof mats, sleeping bags and other camping supplies entered the life of Tibetans much earlier than the camping tide in the mainland. Far away, near the water source, or in a lower position, the kitchen is transparent on all sides. Every day, the meals of dozens or even hundreds of people have to be taken out from here. A large number of materials and even fresh large animals will naturally be transported here continuously for cooking, charcoal burning and firewood chopping, and the gas-burning stove will never go out like a star. When eating, it will burn like a newborn supernova, burning alcohol. I don't like that kind of small firepower.

More exquisitely, the main tent can even be covered with a floor, which is moisture-proof and waterproof, and the dance is smoother. So this kind of camping is comfortable on the whole? Unfortunately, it is far from it. Even if we use cards to move solid wooden beds, tables, stoves, pots and pans, and all conceivable materials to the grassland to improve the quality of life, nature will mercilessly ridicule human beings. In Tibetan areas in midsummer, the temperature can easily drop to single digits at night. Sitting in front of the brazier wrapped in a down jacket, I just chose to bake the front and back first and want to warm up together. Sorry, there is no such set meal. In order to catch up with the bad weather such as rainstorm, the brazier doesn't work, and the tent doesn't seem to be so good to shelter from the wind and rain, and it may even be life-threatening in serious cases.

It is precisely because of the rainy season that the grassland, which was originally covered with grass and wild flowers, easily melts into a quagmire and blooms with strange colors and tastes at everyone's feet. The combination of moisture-proof pad, sponge mattress and down sleeping bag seems reliable, but as long as you lie on the ground, everyone has the opportunity to experience the plight of princess and pea. The body seems to be magnified in nature, and you can clearly distinguish some tiny details on the ground: there are as many stars in the summer night sky as pebbles under you. Personal hygiene is a more difficult problem to overcome. The comfort you feel when you get up in a daze at night and then go back to bed in a daze is still far away at the moment. When you wake up, you are completely awake. This is an adventure bordering on madness. You are cautious and alert, and you want to find a safe and clean place to release your humanity. You don't need to elaborate, but you can probably imagine that "people have three emergencies", and you should add an "emergency" when camping.

So, exquisite camping, maybe, maybe, is a false proposition?

If you don't count the big accounts of the monarchs in the grassland kingdom, or the barracks recruited by the emperor himself, the modern ancestor of the popular exquisite camping should be the African hunting and hunting that rose in the 1920s. Hunting in Africa has been an aristocratic sport since its birth, and the surrounding services are also very luxurious. How refined can such safari be? Hemingway, its number one fan, wrote many hunting records in Africa, which can give us a glimpse of the whole leopard-the book Mountain of Africa, which truthfully records the writer and his second wife hunting in East Africa in 1933. A typical camping lunch is enjoyed under a special dining tent in the shade of a tree. Fresh oil is the highlight of this meal. Grant gazelle steak is the main course, and mashed potatoes and tender corn are the side dishes. In the evening, I sat by the fire wrapped in my coat and drank whisky mixed with soda water, waiting for someone to report that a quarter of the hot water had been put in the canvas bathtub.

From here on, the exquisiteness of camping should have reached its peak. However, this is only one aspect of exquisite camping. Shortly after the sumptuous lunch, Hemingway dragged his body, which had just recovered from dysentery, to hunt animals for the camp where all the animal meat had been consumed. In Hemingway's own words, going hunting in Africa is "the hardships you have paid". Such hunting needs to employ a large number of local porters, guides and various service personnel. No matter how low the price was in Africa a hundred years ago, it was also an expensive experience.

Nearly a hundred years later, even if the "exquisite camping" in Africa is not the same as that day, there is no need to hunt for the food to eat the next day. In the luxury package, there are even chefs descending from the sky to cook for distinguished guests at any time. It really fell from the sky, and the chef took the ingredients in a hot air balloon to cook a big meal for the guests. However, thanks to the popularity of high-definition cameras and high-definition TVs, Africa, which once had its own filters because of insufficient resolution, is now naked in front of us: if there is no rich experience in wild life, the truth that comes to us will probably not be very pleasing.

If you search for the English word "Glamping" for exquisite camping, you will find an interesting phenomenon: at present, many overseas exquisite camping projects have "evolved" into hotel-like projects with fixed locations and facilities. Businessmen who have insight into the market demand, enclosure in scenic places, the procedures are much simpler, and the cost is much lower than that of traditional hotel projects. They quickly set up tent-style high-class hotels with complete facilities, water, electricity and toilets, and guests can stay with their bags. The only difference is that the buildings full of standard rooms are replaced by exquisite tents scattered in the landscape. Even the standard spa in high-end hotels can be arranged. Instead of hiding in a private place in a reinforced concrete building, they are replaced by small tents.

Similar "exquisite camping" is not lacking in reference in China. Taking any big city as the center, within three to five hours' journey, there is a high probability that you can find a similar hotel that doesn't need to study and buy equipment or build a tent to make a fire and cook. There is even a camp with only photos. You can post beautiful pictures labeled "Exquisite Camping" on social networks at low cost. All kinds of tents, shiny rooms and retro public minibuses are carefully arranged in a small space. As long as you choose the right degree (the on-site staff will even provide the best photo suggestions), you can avoid the uneven scenery from entering the other party's picture by mistake. A set of picnic tableware and German retro lamps that are suspected of making a fool of themselves can both appear in the picture, which adds a bit of credibility to the photo, and also allows the owner in the photo to show himself in all directions in bright clothes, without worrying about sweating and making up because of tents, fires and scenery. The most magical scene I have ever seen is a whole set of fake picnics and barbecues: the black and bright charcoal is simulated, and the steak and vegetables on the barbecue grill are all plastic, but when they appear in the camera, they look very real to the surrounding Shan Ye.

Compared with picnics, camping and exquisite camping among network celebrities, they are all professional outdoor activities with higher requirements for participants and certain requirements for their economic strength. As long as we can choose the right place and build a stable tent efficiently, many people can not go camping. I read about Li Juan's experience of going to winter pasture with a herdsman family. It is written in the book that she wore seven or eight layers of warm clothes and put up a tent at extremely low temperature for the night, which made people very tired. Camping, which is popular now, may not be so tiring for life, but it is still not an easy job. In the wild, fire safety, product safety and countermeasures of potential dangers also need high learning costs.

In addition, how to be a responsible camper is also a self-education that cannot be ignored. The large-scale open-air festivals in Tibetan areas shown before have actually put great pressure on the fragile plateau environment. Therefore, more and more mature camping camps and related services, the pursuit of camping equipment, camping high-end accommodation, and even scenic spots dedicated to punching in and taking pictures are not bad things, so that everyone can participate in them and get what they want after paying the cost they can afford. In the future, there may be a more exciting, professional and in-depth camping culture, combined with more local lifestyles, making "exquisite camping" a "wonderful scene".

There is no problem in pursuing comfort and exquisiteness in any lifestyle, and so is camping. Similarly, just to take beautiful photos, camping is no problem. Creating beauty is also a difficult (or expensive) creation. Exquisite camping has never been a false proposition, it is related to the way we get along with ourselves. I hope everyone can have the fun of camping that they want. For me, half the fun of camping comes from the inevitable ending of going home from the village.