Hulunbeier Grassland

Hulunbeier Grassland

The beauty of Hulunbeier Grassland is vividly described in the Chinese poem 'The sky is blue and the grassland is boundless; when the grass bows in the wind, horses and sheep appear in your eyes.' As one of the most beautiful and fertile grasslands, Hulunbeier Grassland is undoubtedly a jade in North China on the cockscomb of the rooster-like China map.

Covering an area of over 100,000 square kilometers (386,102 square miles), Hulunbeier Grassland is located in northeast of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region 300 kilometers long from east to west and 200 kilometers (124 miles) wide from south to north. In the expansive grassland, herds of sheep and cattle are seen chasing after each other, shepherd singing the song with whip in his hand, flowers blooming dazzlingly. All that presents before your eyes is sedate and full of life. It is the best-preserved grassland in China at present. More than 100 nutritious pastures including clover and needle grass are lushly grown here, weaving a green thick rug for the pastureland. It is also a pure sanctuary far from being polluted, thus the meat, dairy food and fur produced here are highly favorable. The grass mowed is of high quality and usually exported to the foreign countries. 

The derivation of the name 'Hulunbeier' is related to a beautiful legend. Once upon a time, there were a lot of ogres in the grassland, who destructed the pasture and killed the livestock at random. Then, the pretty and brave girl named Hulun and her beloved man called Beier from the local Mongolian tribe fought against the devils fearlessly. Later, they two became water and have those devils drowned. The lovers turned out to be the two lakes 'Hulun' and Beier' nourishing the pastureland generations after generations.