What does the "cattle and sheep market" in Xinjiang mean?

This is the first one I visited when I was traveling in Kashgar? Attractions? .

It opened my eyes in Xinjiang. Special market

The day I arrived in Kashgar was Saturday, and I was hastily arranged in a youth hostel. The girl who lives in my lower berth is a girl with long hair. She told me excitedly: Will there be tomorrow? Cattle and sheep market? It's only open on Sundays. Let's go together. I agreed without thinking. Only once a week. I'm not sure whether I will be in Kashgar next week. Of course I will go! There is a direct bus to Niuyang Bazaar in Kashgar. The next morning, with five or six friends, we boarded this No.23 road and headed for the west of 10 km away. In fact, I was very confused at that time, even? Time difference? Can't the other way around? Bazar. Know nothing.

Xinjiang, that's it.

Traveling in Xinjiang is like this. Most of the time, what you are looking for is not scenery, but scenery? Looking for what? Do you think that when you go to a place and join a group, Kashgar will give up everything you have? Concerns? . Is it a lot? I don't know what to do. The limit, everything is gone in an instant. I mentioned it in my previous travel notes. Bazar. It's a market in Xinjiang. There is such a market in Kashgar that specializes in selling animals. Cattle and sheep market? . This place in Xinjiang is different from other places. Rich in products and developed animal husbandry. There are all kinds of bazaars here: large comprehensive markets, rural markets, street stalls and so on. Are they all fixed? Bazaar Even if it is open every day, only that day is the busiest. So when you arrive in Xinjiang, you must develop a resolute and uncompromising travel style. Some landscapes only appear at certain times. After that, we can only wait for the next time. Time is gone forever, and traveling in Xinjiang is particularly profound.

Cattle and sheep Dabazha

What is the full name of the cattle and sheep market? Kashgar live animal trading market? It took the bus more than an hour to arrive. Passing through several small suburban villages along the way, they are all hidden behind sparse tall trees, like villas.

Our country is interested in this? The most special city in Xinjiang? Very important, especially in recent years 10, the city appearance of Kashgar has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the living habits of Kashgar people are also quietly undergoing subtle changes. For example, at the gate of the cattle and sheep market, I saw the booth of the insurance company. Kashgar people changed their traditional mode of thinking and began to accept Israel. Novel? Ways to protect their personal and property safety. This is a very active market. There are vendors selling fruits and snacks around the door, and they don't miss any sales opportunity, telling people who come and go: buy here if you want. What is not in the fruit. Uighur children stay quietly in the car, waiting for their father.

Yes, it's dad, not mom. You will find that the vendors and buyers active in this cattle and sheep market are all men, and there are almost no Uighur women here. So we girls in skirts are so abrupt in this huge shopping mall. But foreigners who come to Wan Li for sightseeing are not abrupt, because their faces are similar, with high noses and sunken eyes. Kashgar children in the cattle and sheep market will help their parents when they are very young. A teenager can carry 300 Jin of cattle by himself. In the long river of life, they set sail early. Survival? On this somewhat heavy proposition, they handed over a completely different answer sheet from children in other regions.

They don't refuse the camera at all, with a sense of shyness. They don't need to think about unnecessary things with animals every day. Their childhood is happy. There are some pure beauty that we can't envy.

animal

Every Sunday, shepherds living in Kashgar will take the livestock that can be sold at home to the market with carts. In the cattle and sheep market, the living animals I saw were mainly cattle and sheep, and occasionally there were vendors with camels. Camel is an indispensable means of transportation in Xinjiang desert, and its hump contains life-saving nutrients. On the Silk Road a few years ago, camels were the most common animals in Kashgar, a small town in the middle of the western regions.

Now in Xinjiang, camels are rarely used to pull goods and carry people. They became scenic spots? Tools? For people to watch and punch in. Nowadays, if you want to enjoy the magnificent scenery of the camel team, you can only go to those closed desert scenic spots. At the cattle and sheep market, camels also became children's? Toys are just tourists, so we'd better stay away from them. Camels, as large animals, look lovely when they stay in MengMeng, but they are not docile and approachable species. Camels are not usually? Bite? , but it does not prevent them from having a strong attack. Once the adult camel runs away, the car may not catch up. According to the size of the seller, divide the sheep into several areas, tie them head to head and squeeze them together. A sheep is covered with treasures. Wool can be cut and made into clothes and various textile products; Goat milk can breastfeed people and small animals; Mutton can be made into all kinds of delicious food; Sheep bones can be boiled into soup; Sheep heads can also be made into ornaments.

Therefore, in the cattle and sheep market, sheep is the most and best-selling commodity. It is only from birth that they are inevitably slaughtered. Sheep are rare in Xinjiang? Natural death? Yes Do animals have thoughts and feelings? I think there is.

Like this cow, the Uighur eldest brother tried to pull it out of the car, but it refused to live or die. Perhaps it has realized that it is about to leave its owner and be sent to the slaughterhouse. In Kashgar, Xinjiang, I have seen Uighurs slaughter sheep on the spot. Pulled from the sheepfold? Execution ground? On the road, the sheep are reluctant to poke their feet into the ground or simply lie prone on the ground. I walked less than 100 meter, but it took an hour. However, when humans really pressed it to the chopping board and bled, it didn't say a word, didn't move, didn't struggle or howl. It knows there is nothing it can do.

At the cattle and sheep market, every animal I saw was unhappy on its face, and no one just jumped happily. Normal? Yes Just as people have their own destiny, so do animals? Unfair? . Some pets come from rich families, live a glorious life and die naturally, while others can't get rid of them when they are young? The best? The fate of being slaughtered, divided and squeezed during the period. In Xinjiang, killing sheep is the best way to entertain guests. If you go to Xinjiang people's home, they kill a sheep for you, or treat you to a big pot of mutton, then you are already a distinguished guest in his mind.

surrounding region

Of course, the cattle and sheep market not only sells cattle and sheep, but also sells cattle and sheep? Peripheral products? . I bought a milk-flavored ice cream unique to Kashgar here. Although it doesn't have the shape of ice cream, it is sweet, fluffy and full of milk flavor. In fact, I later found many small shops selling this kind of ice cream in downtown Kashgar, but this cup sold in the cattle and sheep market is particularly large, in 2 yuan.

Another dessert: Kashgar shaved ice.

The ice seller shoveled some crushed ice on this big ice with a small shovel, then poured sweet honey and milk and danced up and down like a bartender in a bar? Performing? After a while, get a bowl full of gifts? Thin and broken? Ice porridge.

It is these snacks that cost only a few dollars, but they have become the flavor that is often remembered and especially missed after returning from Xinjiang tourism.

The most satisfying thing about the cattle and sheep market is that you can eat fresh mutton soup slaughtered on the spot.

Mutton masters set up stalls with simple cloth fences and wooden poles on one side of the open-air hypermarket. Under the watchful eyes of many onlookers, they stripped the sheepskin of the whole sheep, took out the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, separated the mutton from the sheep bones, then cut the fresh meat pieces into strips and hung them, leaving the sheep head under their feet.

When you arrive in Kashgar, Xinjiang, you must have a red willow barbecue. If you want to eat authentic red willow barbecue and don't know where to go, then go to the Niu Niu market. The kebabs here are all made fresh.

Mutton soup is also made of mutton that has not been frozen. Large pieces are thrown into the pot, and the whole piece of meat floats in the bowl. The fresh taste is lasting and the aftertaste is long.

Even in Kashgar, many people go to the cattle and sheep market just to eat that bite of mutton.