Tarim River is great. Since ancient times, it has selflessly watered the surrounding vegetation and nurtured the surrounding creatures. Once upon a time, in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, there were so many beautiful and ancient cities where people lived and worked in peace and contentment. However, the sandstorm that ravaged Taklimakan destroyed all this year after year. Under the siege of Taklimakan, the Tarim River broke through desperately, but it was still hard to bear the weight of life. It can only watch this beautiful city, which it raised, become a depressed ruin year by year.
Bazhou, the largest autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang across the Tarim River, has the most tragic feelings in Xinjiang. Hotan, the oldest city in Xinjiang, is also the most scarred city in Xinjiang.
There is only one Tarim desert highway from Bazhou to Hotan, but my memory has gone through many centuries, from Loulan ancient city to Niya ruins, from Milan ruins to Malikwa ancient city; From sadness to sadness, I have been silently facing this scene, while the river in my heart is roaring. Facing the desert, facing the turned desert is the same color. What can I say? Although human beings have cut off the demon known as the second largest desert in the world with their own wisdom.
Taklimakan, from the bottom of my heart, I really don't want to mention the name of this desert, just like I don't want to see the Tarim River dry up, and I don't want to see oases and cities, which have become ancient cities and ruins because of its encroachment. ...
Millennium regret of crossing Bazhou
Unable to withstand the call of history, I came out of Korla, galloped southeast along the Beishan service road, and arrived at the first camp "Yingpan". It used to be an ancient city, hence its name, because there have been garrisons and camps here since ancient times. /kloc-The ancient cities, pagodas and ancient tombs that were stationed more than 0/000 years ago are still vaguely preserved here. However, due to the damage of the ancient city in many places, only the wall circle left on the ground can be seen from a height. Today, I am lucky to stand here, and I can still touch it with my eyes. Maybe in a few years, there will be nothing here but yellow sand.
Local officials in the same trade told me that a few years ago, licorice was everywhere and red willows were everywhere. In order to survive, people dig and cut down on a large scale, and it is not easy to plant a grass in sandy land and saline-alkali land. At present, the speed of desertification in some places has far exceeded the speed of vegetation rejuvenation, and the final fate can only be buried in the desert. However, human beings can only eat their own fruit. Now, except for rows of houses that are about to collapse, people have left the building. Sandstorms tirelessly erase human remains from the years.
Leave the camp and walk for another seven or eight hours. I have always had a heartfelt respect for our drivers: we just take a nap in the car, and their eyes have to stare at the front without blinking. There is no green to look at, it's all yellow. For them, a second is long. Finally, when we reached the ancient tomb ditch, the driver stopped the car. He was snoring in the carriage before we got off the bus. It was a long and lonely trip, and he was really tired!
The ancient tomb ditch is said to be a public cemetery in the bronze age thousands of years ago. Standing in the cemetery, surrounded by a bleak atmosphere, mysterious and horrible, and a little bit of fear from the heel passing by with an evil wind, then get on the bus and escape.
In the desert Gobi, green is just an extravagant hope. Where there is green, there must be water. There has been no water here for many years. Without Lop Nur, there would be no death. When we entered Lop Nur, except the top of Ya Dan, there were Gobi and desert. When there are more and more Ya Dan, it is the Dragon City.
Longcheng is not a city, but a huge Ya Dan Group. Looking around, rows of huge Ya Dan are grotesque, ferocious and horrible, staring at us like a dragon. After thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, Ya Dan's earthen bags are tilted in one direction-green places, like rows of warships trying to escape from the sand sea, heroic and pessimistic.
In the face of Longcheng, I think these Ya Dan have existed since the ancient country of Loulan flourished. So what does it feel like for people living here to walk between such magnificent Ya Dan?
The silent Loulan Oasis became a desert.
On the way to Loulan, the last ten kilometers made us feel suffocated like never before. The floating dust all the way made us only four or five meters away from the two cars, but neither of us saw the end. Ya Dan, next to each other, became the only goal for the driver to control the direction. Strolling through Ya Dan, we seem to be back in the kingdom of Loulan, walking with the ancient cloth … until we see Loulan!
Loulan ancient city, located in the west of Lop Nur, was once an oasis, once flourished for a while, and finally disappeared mysteriously. It is world-famous because it is located in the hub of the western regions and occupies an extremely important position on the ancient Silk Road. Silk and tea in Chinese mainland; Horse grapes and jewels in the Western Regions were first traded through Loulan. When many caravans passed through this oasis, they had to rest here temporarily. Loulan Kingdom was founded before 65438 BC+076 BC, and died in 630 AD, with a history of more than 800 years. It starts near Guyangguan in the east, reaches the ancient city of Niya in the west, reaches Altun Mountain in the south and Hami in the north, all of which are Loulan's territory. However, with the passage of time, this kingdom gradually disappeared in the world. Why it became extinct is still a mystery. But with a little knowledge, the desert can't escape!
No matter who you are, you will be shocked by a dignified history and culture. Broken pagodas, dilapidated houses and broken walls everywhere are silent in the desolation, and we passers-by are speechless. Later, the tour guide showed us the most conspicuous architectural relic in Loulan City-the "three rooms" in the center of the city. The walls of these three rooms are the only adobe bricks in the city, facing south and facing south. The houses at the east and west ends are all wooden structures with red paint on the wood, some of which are 6.4 meters long. From the analysis of the location and structure of this group of buildings, this may be the location of the yamen mansion of the ruler of Loulan City. However, the greatest sorrow of rulers is to watch their own world perish! They should witness what is happening here. In the face of invasion, natural disasters and man-made disasters, they have nothing to do and nowhere to escape!