Last Hunting and Gathering Tribe -- Rural China

Author: Cao Baoming
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book describes the survival journey and life of northern fishing and hunting tribes through the author's personal experiences. Winter fishing is the fishing done in winter, a way of life for those living here. The way they move on the ice and snow, their dialects and colloquialisms, their gestures and actions during work—suddenly, I felt this was the place I had been searching for all these years. So, I set foot on the vast Chagan Nur, boarded the sled of a winter fishing enthusiast to see the "sleeping fish," lay on the earthen in the net house listening to the wind and snow outside as I fell asleep, and followed the old fisherman to pull and gather fish with his large cart. This book describes the survival journey and life of northern fishing and hunting tribes through the author's personal experiences. Winter fishing is the fishing done in winter, a way of life for those living here. The way they move on the ice and snow, their dialects and colloquialisms, their gestures and actions during work—suddenly, I felt this was the place I had been searching for all these years. So, I set foot on the vast Chagan Nur, boarded the sled of a winter fishing enthusiast to see the "sleeping fish," lay on the earthen in the net house listening to the wind and snow outside as I fell asleep, and followed the old fisherman to pull and gather fish with his large cart.