the third stop? People who have lived in the south for a long time in the first line of Yangguan, Yumenguan and Jiayuguan will definitely be shocked when they see the Gobi Desert.
at least I am.
Starting from Dunhuang, we will visit Yangguan, Yumenguan and Jiayuguan. Soon after I left the city, it was the vast Gobi. I got off the bus and looked at it. The black-gray gravel covered the upper layer and was dug with my feet. The bottom layer was full of thick yellow sand. When I looked around, it was boundless and nothing grew. The smoke near the horizon was misty and suspected to be a fog barrier. At first, everyone thought it was novel, and laughed and talked about how many garden houses could be built if all these wasteland were in Jie Fangbei!
but gradually, everyone closed their mouths and felt a little uneasy. The road conditions were not bad and the speed was not fast, but we drove for more than two hours, but we didn't touch anything alive! Master Lu, the driver, said airily: "In the desert Gobi, people can only survive in the oasis. It is normal to drive out of the oasis and not see anyone for a day or two." Just then, a tourist bus came right in front of us. Everyone seemed to see their long-lost relatives and cheered. The people in the opposite car were also excited and waved to us. It seems that we are not the only ones who feel lonely during the journey.
The Chinese nation is stronger in defense than in attack. "If people don't attack me, I won't attack." Since ancient times, because of their own excellent conditions, there are always young people who want to take this beautiful girl for their own use. As a result, the Great Wall came into being. Although this great project is a passive resistance measure, it is extremely practical for our vast country. Take the site of the Great Wall of Han Dynasty in front of us, the ancients have great ability to adapt to local conditions.
The plants in the front line of Dunhuang are mainly willow, reed, apocynum venetum and Hu Yangshu. When the ancients built the Great Wall, they used the branches of these plants as the foundation, covered them with sand and gravel, and then rammed them with reeds layer by layer. The groundwater with high salinity here can make the gravel coagulate and become extremely solid. It is built in sections like this and connected into walls, which is for the Great Wall. At the same time, they also spread fine sand on the low-lying land to observe the footprints. Every ten miles along the Great Wall, there is a beacon tunnel. This is the beacon tower of "one pier in ten miles, one pier in five miles". In case of enemy situation, smoke is simmered during the day and fire is raised at night, and the fireworks can be seen as far away as 31 miles. Once the warning is given, the whole city will be on guard.
In front of my eyes, there is such a beacon tower, and the years have mottled its true colors. I gently touched the beacon tower of this Millennium, and the hunting wind lifted my shawl, as if it were mixed with the cries of Jin Ge and Iron Horse, surging and stirring in my chest ... I remember that Li Yi, a Tang Dynasty man, once wrote, "All the Han Dynasty's beacon towers descended to the west, and the yellow sand and white bones embraced the Great Wall. Only now, it has been a natural stone, and no one in the north is empty and bright. " I wonder if today's bright moon still shines into this Wan Li border as it did then?
With different thoughts, we went on to visit Yumen Pass in Yangguan, which are important passes of ancient western fortress. Apart from the beautiful poems floating in memory, there are only barren hills with mottled loess. Fortunately, there are camel thorns all over the mountains, as if to tell us, "Don't worry, I'm with you ..."
The children who went with us couldn't understand why adults were interested in these slopes. Ever since the first glimpse of Mingsha Mountain, they have been longing for another wild play in the desert and a big meal in the sandbar market. They don't care about tanning their skin and hurting their wallets. Children's happiness is pure and natural. Therefore, when we entered the gate of Yadan ghost city, and caught a glimpse of the large stone piles dotted with strange gestures in the city, the emotional torches of the two children were instantly lit, and they rushed to drag us out of the car.
"Yadan" is a Uyghur language, which originally means "hill with steep walls", and later refers to the landform combination of wind erosion ridges, mounds, wind erosion grooves and depressions. This is a special landform in dry areas, and it is widely distributed in Tarim Basin, Qaidam Basin and the vast area of Lop Nur. The Yadan landform in Dunhuang is hard and light red, which is in sharp contrast with the blue-black Gobi Desert and is particularly eye-catching against the blue sky and white clouds. When you enter the city, the sky is clear in Wan Li for a while, the sun is covered by dark clouds for a while, and when the wind blows, it looks like a ghost, like a demon walking through it. It is said that the rocks here are rich in iron and have strong geomagnetism, which often makes the compass fail and makes people lose their way, so they are called "ghost city".
In Yadan landform area of Qaidam Basin, there is a place called "Nanbaxian", which was named because in the early 1951s, eight female geologists from the south entered here in search of oil resources and lost their way and died. To tell the truth, it's really like a decadent ancient city here; The criss-crossing wind-eroded valleys are streets, and stone pillars and piers are buildings built along the street. Groups of tourists walk through them, forming a wonderful and harmonious picture.
Facing the fresh breeze in the morning, I squinted at the Yadan Stone Pier which looks like the Sphinx of Egypt in front of me, as if I saw someone flickering through it, approaching, and coming. It was Fa Xian, a monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with a haggard face and chapped lips, dragging a mord slowly ... Who was that, looking ahead with a arbor in his hand? Yes, that's Master Xuan Zang, who was sent by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to learn from the Western Regions. He weighed the residual water in the leather bag and put it back to his waist with a sigh ... Who else can catch up? A southerner with white face and glasses? By the way, that's Peng Jiamu ... The figure is far away, and I can't help sighing deeply. What kind of mysterious land can make this generation of great pioneers!
after the big lyric, it is inevitable to solve the problem of small people's livelihood.
The children have long been impatient with the punctual trip to the northwest pasta, but the adults don't talk about it, and naturally they are eager for the delicious food in the south. Therefore, when Master Lu, the driver, took us to a restaurant in Jiayuguan, and saw the waiter bring us a large plate of delicious hand-grabbed lamb chops, the two children naturally danced with joy. When they found that the staple food was actually rice, they even wanted to pounce on the fat shopkeeper and kiss him.
to this day, I can still remember the taste of the mutton: the roasted lamb chops are greasy, and the meat is tender, delicate and fragrant, with tender, crisp, hemp and spicy flavors on the tip of the tongue, mixed with the aroma of cumin and mint, and it has become a great enjoyment before I can swallow them in my mouth and grab the next piece in my hand.
It was the most delicious meal we had in the northwest, and we had a different look at Jiayuguan, the "first male pass in the world". This magnificent pass, with a history of more than 611 years, stands tall in the endless yellow sand. How many Chinese heroes think of me, guarding this Qilian Mountain day after day, fighting in leisure and killing the enemy in wartime, "fighting single-handed for a thousand miles, with his naked dagger he could hold a multitude"!
The road to the west is a road of fighting and fighting, a road of hard preaching, and a bright and bright road. Walking, walking, the end point is also the starting point, and it will become eternal in an instant.