The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

In fact, Zhang Nan still has a piece of clothing that can only be worn as a chief, but the king told him: Because Chief Alan will not stay in Botswana for too long, and the coronation is a bit hasty, the leopard shawl, which represents the authority of the new chief, is still Just pulled it off the leopard.

Also because of the rush, there are still a few guests who come to observe the ceremony. Otherwise, the Tswa people will have a major event like a new chief, and the Botswana government will need to send at least one minister to observe the ceremony-Moshari and other chiefs. I was impatient, afraid that Zhang Nan would leave in these two days, so he was crowned directly according to the most traditional customs of the tribe.

The chief needs leopard skin, and the tribal warriors hunted an adult African leopard with traditional bows and spears: this leopard skin cannot be an African leopard hunted with guns. Tradition is very important.

It takes time to use modern craftsmanship to make fur into clothing. Similarly, it also takes time to use the traditional methods of southern Africa to process it. Then just wait and it will be your own when you come next time.

After eating a complete cattle banquet, Zhang Nan and the Tuwang group also inspected the school: just across from the "Coronation Plaza", the Tuwang built the school near his "palace".

Children are the future of the tribe.

The leaders of the Tswa people know the importance of education. The country’s population was only 300,000 when it was independent, and now 1.34 million, less than 23 years have passed.

There are many children in the tribe, and education should be given priority, because the king said that at the beginning of Botswana there were only 4 university students in the country. At that time, there was a huge shortage of talents. As long as you have a high school diploma, you are eligible to run for a ministerial position!

But now if you want to enter the government, even an ordinary civil servant must have a high school culture: the southern tribes and some places close to big cities have developed well in education, but the traditional areas of the Tswa tribe are a bit behind in educational development due to their geographical location. NS.

The Tuwang can only send outstanding students from the tribe to big cities for education. Fortunately, education in Botswana is free. Even for graduate students and doctoral degrees, it is free, and the government also provides necessary living expenses.

But in this way, Mr. Tuwang is also worried that those children will lose their tribal traditions, because in Moshari’s view, going to a big city after seven or eight years of elementary and junior high school courses, it is easy to "lose oneself."

A group of people arrived at the school in a few steps. The school building consisted of 10 round buildings made of wood and mud that looked like a yurt, with three low walls and a door on one side.

With low doors and windows, Zhang Nan had to bow his waist to get in.

The walls are covered with bricks and iron sheets. There are no tables, chairs, and no lighting. There is muddy soil underneath.

The temperature will be 32 degrees, the classroom is very stuffy and hot, Zhang Nan wearing a white shirt quickly becomes sweaty.

You can imagine how uncomfortable it is to take classes here.

Today in the tribe’s Daqing, the school is on holiday, and there are no children in the school building, but there are a group of children outside with a piece of cloth holding their butts watching the excitement.

The children have heard that the new chief will build new schools for all children, just like the ones in big cities.

Today is not the most uncomfortable, although the altitude here is about 1,000 meters, but when the heat is intense, it will reach 40 degrees in a few days!

Such teaching conditions reminded Zhang Nan of the schools and children in the poorest areas in western China.

The town is actually powered on, but it's almost the same as if there isn't, because power outages are commonplace, definitely more than when the power is on!

"Moshari Tuwang, can our teacher problem be solved?"

Upon hearing this, the Tuwang smiled proudly and said: "The tribes are very united. Some good children go to study in big cities to come back to be teachers. Teachers are not a problem."

"Then build the school as soon as possible, and I will let people build small photovoltaic power stations in various residential areas, which can at least meet the lighting problems of the school and the chiefs."

There are cultural people, and Botswana is not short of sunlight, so a photovoltaic power station is built, and a small one is enough.

Everyone was happy, and the children cheered there after listening to the adult's advice outside. It feels so good!

When returning to the place of celebration, several tribal warriors stood there carrying two huge tusks.

"Dear Chief Ellen, every Tswa chief will have a pair of ivory worthy of his identity. You are an American and even a Chinese. We are brothers and family.

This is the ivory sent by members of the tribe when my father was alive. It is not a hunted elephant, but a big guy taken from a naturally dead elephant.

Twenty years, it's a lot lighter, but still worthy of your identity. "

What is the chief's ivory used for?

Of course not as a handicraft, but erected like a door in the chief's living room, and moved out on important occasions. At this time, the chief takes a stool and sits in front of the "tooth door" when meeting guests or citizens.

It looks very good.

King Moshari has a pair of huge ivory. Zhang Nan estimates that both are three meters in length, which is not much smaller than the pair of longest ivory in the world now in the Natural History Museum of the British Museum~www.wuxiaspot. com~ And this pair is similar, even if the length is less than three meters, it is estimated that two meters and eight are indispensable, it can be considered a super huge type!

The other 11 chiefs should also have such large ivory, but the Botswana people basically have no love for the ivory except that the chiefs will have a pair of super elephant tusks that represent authority.

Not everyone is qualified to have elephant tusks.

Hearing Moshari said that his target tooth has been over a hundred years old, and it was uploaded by the ancestors. On the way here, Zhang Nan saw the skeleton of a dead elephant not far from the roadside, and two ivory that should be more than one meter long were poking there - no one was going to get it at all.

Ivory poaching is popular in some places in Africa, but ordinary ivory is not wanted here, which is a kind of harmony.

And here, King Moshari is still introducing, "...The ivory of the chief had to be obtained by himself or presented by the people, but for several decades, for unknown reasons, the elephant’s ivory on the grassland has become more and more important. The tusks of some male elephants in their 50s and 60s are only more than one meter long.

It is becoming more and more difficult to get ivory over 2.5 meters, so I will give you a pair on behalf of the tribe. I hope Chief Ellen will like it. "

Of course Zhang Nan likes it. Can you like this pair of elephant tusks?

By the way, tell the king of the land that the reason why the elephant's ivory on the grassland has gradually become smaller and smaller is actually very simple: First, because of poaching, elephants with large ivory will become the primary target of poachers.

The second is that elephants seem to have abilities that humans don’t have. They seem to know that if their qualified tusks grow too large, they will be considered as poaching targets. As a result, they deliberately do not grow large ivory. These teeth have become smaller and smaller in the past few decades. .

It’s amazing ability, or population degradation, a phenomenon that even science can’t fully explain.

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