The Myth of Chaka Salt Lake

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were nine disasters in ten years here, and the herdsmen were starving and cold. The local Mongolian herdsmen called her the sea. More than 100 years ago, a living Buddha passed by the area, and the princes went to ask for help, seeking the road to prosperity. The living Buddha said, the salt lake inhabited by 1,000 Baliden Lamausu (Mongolian goddess), that one into the crystal clear green salt, is the crystallization of their hard work and sweat, can bring them good luck and happiness. So the summer and fall seasons, the local Mongolian, Tibetan herdsmen will come to dig. The salt lake is worshiped as a god. May 15 is an auspicious day, so hundreds of kilometers around the herdsmen with pine branches, ghee, fried noodles, barley, white wine to Qiqi seek a few auspicious sea sacrifice.

Dressed in festive attire herdsmen, carefully to bring their own branches tied to help red, yellow, blue, green colorful silk, white hada, but also tied their own a wish. Aka with ghee, fried noodles meticulously making various shapes of offerings, on the copper bowl, wooden fish chanting, over and over again for everyone to pray for happiness and peace. Afterwards, hundreds and thousands of herdsmen holding pine tree branches lined up to raise their arms, all of a sudden, the whole Ovoo colorful, turned into a sea of flowers. Then dozens, hundreds of horses began to run around the Ovoo seven seventy-fourty-nine laps, in accordance with the pre-selected thirteen young men, riding thirteen white horses, on behalf of all the wishes of the people, with all kinds of products, tied with colorful silk sheepskin bags, to the depths of the Salt Lake galloped to the forefront of the goddess of blessing who can be, so that the entire sacrificial activities to reach a climax.