In winter, Lake Baikal is covered with snow and ice, and the white snowfields are as far as the eye can see, and the snow covers the frozen lake from the nearby flatlands to the frozen lake, covering the mountains in the distance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoOn the shores of the snow-covered lake, birch huts are erected, surrounded by wooden fences, and black smoke rises from chimneys on small roofs.

The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, and the scenery of the winter snowfields of Lake Baikal are indeed intoxicating, but it is a pity that although the scenery is good, the people who live here are not happy at all.

The wheel of history has come to the Spring Festival of the eleventh year of Kangxi, and the Manchu Eight Banners, who have lived in the capital for nearly 30 years, have actually been sinicized, although they use high-pressure means such as shaving their hair and changing clothes, and text prisons, through the method of turning Huaxia into barbarians, deliberately prevent themselves from being sinicized, but the strong charm of Han culture, but it can't prevent the Manchu Eight Banners from starting to sinicize. After many years in the customs, many descendants of the banner people began to learn to recite poems, paint, play chess, listen to books and watch plays, and learn the Chinese language, but they almost forgot their own words; When I started believing in Buddhism, what shamanism had long since been lost.

From the capital to Shanxi, Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism coexisted, and monks and lamas lived in the same monastery. In fact, this phenomenon is not unique to the Qing Dynasty, during the Ming Dynasty, lamas had already come to the places where the Han people lived to preach.

Although some of the old banner people refused to be sinicized, their children and grandchildren could not resist the charm of Han culture, and even if those old people took strong measures, they could not stop the changes of their children and grandchildren.

While the Manchu Eight Banners were gradually sinicized, they also accepted the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals of the Han people.

The Spring Festival has become a major festival for flag people. In fact, the biggest festival of the Mongolians, the White Festival, is also the same day as the Spring Festival of the Han people. Originally, the Mongolians used the Tibetan calendar to celebrate the Tibetan New Year, and later under the influence of the Han people, the White Festival unconsciously changed from the Tibetan New Year to the first day of the first month of the first month of the Han people.

There is a difference in the timing of the Tibetan New Year and the Chinese New Year, but there is an overlap every few years, and many Mongolians unknowingly change the Tibetan calendar to the lunar calendar.

Nalan, a heavy minister of the Eight Banners, hung his head, he is a banner man who has accepted the sinicization very deeply, and has learned Han Chinese since he was a child, chanting poems, calligraphy and painting, and is omnipotent. But riding a horse and archery, he has long forgotten about it, his son Nalan Xingde is a simple literati, Nalan Mingzhu also knows some martial arts, can fight on foot, although his son Nalan Xingde was named a first-class guard in front of the palace, but there is almost no martial arts, just a nominal guard. From the outside, Nalan Xingde is no different from the Han scholars, and he is powerless.

In previous years, when I was in the capital, I had to start preparing the New Year's goods before the New Year, and on the day of the New Year, I looked at the lively window paper of the Han people, worshiped the God of the Stove, put a table full of delicious food, and worshiped the God of the Stove, the family was happy, enjoyed the delicious things of the New Year, and the flag people also learned to live the New Year.

The preparation of New Year's goods often starts with Laba, and there are some pickled cured meats, so the preparation time is even earlier.

But in the bitter cold of the North Sea, after entering the winter, everything here has changed. In autumn, the Baikal region is rich in wild animals, wild fruits all over the mountains, and fish in the lake, so that the bannermen and the coats, who have long run out of food, will not go hungry.

At that time, the more headache was the food problem, although wild fruits, meat, fish and shrimp are enough to fill the stomach, but people can not eat food, if there is no need to eat food for a long time, people will get sick, after all, people are not carnivores such as tigers and leopards, there must be a certain amount of starch intake. The grain that the banner people and Baoyi brought out from the capital had long been used up, and the grain planted in the ground could not be harvested, otherwise there would be no food to eat next year, so they went to look for some plant tubers with high starch content to eat.

With the onset of winter, a heavy rain and then a heavy snowfall, soon the steppes around Lake Baikal were covered with snow, wild fruits were gone, and animals were gone.

In the beginning, the flag people were able to fish on the surface of the lake. Later, the lake froze, and the flag men chiseled the ice to fish. However, as the ice became thicker and thicker, and it was covered with a thick layer of snow, the ice was extremely difficult to chisel, and there were not enough fish to catch.

The so-called Nalan University Scholar's Mansion is a five-room birch hut surrounded by a wooden fence, and Nalan Xingde sits in the house, practicing calligraphy, this kind of wooden house cannot build a hot kang, but can only rely on the stove in the house for heating. However, the heat emitted by the stove does not play a very big role compared to the severe cold of nature, and the inside of the leaky house is like an ice cellar. From time to time, a gust of cold wind penetrated into the house through the cracks, freezing Nalan Xingde to the point of shivering.

I recall that when I was in the capital, every winter, Nalan Xingde sat on the hot kang to practice calligraphy and painting, and the house of the university scholar was still burning the earth dragon, the house was well insulated, and the windows were installed with double glass imported from Nanyang, sitting in the house, I didn't feel the cold of winter at all, and I could take off my coat at home and only wear autumn clothes.

But here, no matter how thick the clothes are, they can't withstand the biting cold. In addition, because they have not eaten enough for several days, people's ability to withstand the cold has become even worse.

"The Rakshasa people said that they sent food, why are they all celebrating the New Year, and they haven't delivered it yet?" Nalan Xingde, who was a little dizzy from hunger, asked his father.

In fact, the life of the scholars of Nalan University is quite good, much better than other bannermen, the fish caught and the prey they hunt, in addition to supplying the royal family, the first thing is to supply them to these high-ranking officials. In the past few days, Nalan Xingde has been eating fish and shrimp from Lake Baikal for several days.

The delicious fish and shrimp will not get tired of eating from time to time, but if you eat the fish and shrimp as a meal, ask the feelings of the fishermen on the beach, especially if you can't eat fresh vegetables and food, take the fish and shrimp as a meal, and you can definitely make people sick to their stomachs when they see the fish and shrimp. What's more, although fish and shrimp are high-protein foods, they have low fat content, and Nalan Xingde has no starch intake during this time, forcing himself to eat a full stomach, and soon he is hungry again.

Nalan Mingzhu said: "Do you think the Rakshasa people can still come in winter?" The places they passed through were extremely cold, and the roads were blocked by snow and ice in winter, and they could only come after the snow melted in the spring. ”

Even the sons of university scholars can't eat enough, let alone the lives of ordinary flag people and coats. The fish and shrimp caught are less than 100,000 people, and ordinary flag people and coats can only get a little small fish and shrimp. Just eat those things, and you won't be able to fill your stomach at all. The food stored in autumn has long been eaten, and in the winter in the snow, you can't even dig up wild vegetables, so you can only dig some tree roots to eat. The severe food shortage has led to many people starving to death.