Nostalgia at Village of Eco Tourism / A Winter Day in 1940
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I told about the origin of the story of pure life village eco tourism Project in my previous writing. In this blog, I would like to tell you that the story of a winter day in 1940 from the village constructed with Stone-soil-wood without using technology.
Year 1960; The life in the village was both different and hard. Just think you live in a house without electricity and water. Think that you can not take a shower whenever you want and you spend your time in the darkness in the evenings. Think that you walk on the way not being asphalt on a winter day, how we feel so angry because our shoes got wet and mud!! This is like a punishment for a person who got accustomed to live in a city. Let’s look from a different perspective to the village life without thinking these negative sides.
A life with no technology!!! The people spend
much more time with each other. And , it is the most important thing they know
how to rest. The children can play on the way
comfortably without fear. They don’t race with time. But They know everything has right time
to do. Every family has 7-11 Children. It looks hard to feed all of these
family members but actually not. They were happy and peaceful. Because they did
trust and give importance to their neighbors, friends and each other. their
expectation changed by day by with the technology in the village and especially
young members of the village began to
move cities. That’s why we are very happy because the life began again in this village with our Project of
pure life village eco tourism.
How did the
people live in 1940s? Here is the story of a day in the village.
(I would
like tell a story of a winter day because they lived in the village in winters
and they moved to the highlands in summers)
The village
life goes slowly especially in winters.
The day starts with crow and Ezan voice
(the call to prayers) that imam gives the call with his original voice by
walking around minaret. The lady of house
has already gotten up and burned fireplace. She has put a traditional tarhana
soup with sweet-scented on one side of fireplace , on another side a pitcher.
The water
in the pitcher and the washbowl are put
the entry of the door because the toilet is outside in the courtyard. The hands
and faces are washed there. While The wife is preparing the breakfast, the
husband feed the animals in the
courtyard, cleaned the barn. They all together milk the cows. And then, they have
breakfast with honey being produced by themselves, milk, cheese being made by
themselves, dreg of cheese, and
flatbread heated on the cooker, butter and traditional tarhana soup
which cannot forgotten its taste. You feel more hungry when you smell delicious butter put on the flatbread. After breakfast, The
animals are taken outside according to the weather conditions. While the lady
of the house is filling the bucket with the water by getting from the well, the
husband is chopping the wood with an ax in the courtyard. All family
members meet again for the lunch. There
are Traditional tarhana soup, dried vegetables or meal cooked from different
herbs and ayran. After lunch, they visit their neighbors for a few minutes.
These are the short and hurry-up talks .
And evening time! The animals are put
their barn. The baby animals are feeded with milk. While the animals are having
their provender, they are milked. At
dinner there are Sarma, pancake with cheese, bulgur pilaf, chickpea or dried
beans and ayran. They eat the meat twice
or three times a month which they hunted or feeded themselves , chicken, fish
or bird meat…They actually visit their neighbours after dinner. They stay long
time. Thyme tea is served which is
boiled on the fireplace, and a person feels better and de-stressed even its
smell.(Black hive honey is used instead of sugar because of not being
sugar.)They listen the news or traditional songs from the battery-powered radio
which few people have in the village.
And , an intense chat starts and it
takes a person to far far away.
After this
visit they come back home, The fire of
wood burning gives a traditional atmosphere to room. There are two rooms. Mother
and father go to their room.And all members of family sleep very well after a tiring day.
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| Wardrope and a bathroom of house |
A new day but the same as the others starts with the sunrise. The life goes on by knowing the kinds of the seasons ,Without knowing where time sweep us.
We would
like to present for the usage of the holidaymaker some sections of the old days in the
village by making it live again with the
project of the pure life eco tourism.
These are:
1-The meals on the menu are going to consist of the natural vegetables , fruits and herbs from the village as much as possible.
2- The village works such as milking the cows, making bread, heating with the stove, cooking, growing vegetables…etc… are going to be revived.
In
addition, While we are trying to revive all of these things, we are going to take
the holidaymakers from the complexity of the city life. Although the city life presents us all of the
facilities, we cannot rest our body and spirit. We will succeed to listen our
spirit and be us while doing all of these village works.
I kindly
request to write your comments to find answers for the questions below.
1-The
lifelong of the village is 85-90.This is higher than Turkey standards. What is
the reason?
2-How is a healthy life although they
don’t obey the rules of hygene? (drinking water from rain, no shampoo
and sabun ,cleaning the things with ash, the toilet is outside….)
3-Every
family has 7-11 children. There is no infertility problem. At present 40 per
cent of families have babies with the help of medical method. What is the
reason of this?
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| One of stone houses which we restore |
In my opinion The reasons are ;
1 - Eating
habits changes day by day.
2 – Most of
the food has hormone
3 – Industrialization
4 – There
is no healthy weather conditions because of improving technology.
What do you think about these things???
MEHMET
BİÇER
Pure Life Village
www.purelifevillage.com
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