Turpan Basin, is the highest temperature areas, particularly in summer, the temperature reached 47 degrees Celsius, surface temperatures often exceed 70 degrees Celsius, the so-called "four furnaces" in comparison with her, is simply pale into insignificance, in addition to step aside other is no alternative. Therefore, the Turpan ancient times, there are "fire the state," said.

To Turpan, people naturally think of Flaming Mountains is one of the four classic "Journey to the West" in the account, the Sun Story kicked Laojun alchemy of gossip furnace, from gossip furnace inside a piece of falling bricks, Sun Story to protect Tripitaka learn west days, when, three by the palm-leaf fan to Princess Iron Fan is to fight under their own kinds of seeds. Wu Cheng-en is a well-known science fiction writer in ancient China, one of science fiction and modern compared to his Riding on clouds fog comparable to today's spacecraft. Although the description of some of Wu Cheng-en of the Huoyanshan exaggerated, but we do not need to be held in the end is "Journey To The West" lit the Flaming Mountains, or brown-red soil lit Huoyanshan. Turpan today to the people, are not failing to see the Flaming Mountains, especially in the afternoon sun in the sky of the ring to experience the raging flames were bothered or on the ground side of BBQ flavor.

Huoyanshan a total length of more than 100 kilometers wide, more than 10 kilometers, the soil showed a red-brown in the sun's radiation, the soil evaporation of steam into the air to form a floating air. Especially when the sun in the sky when will people feel as if exposure to the stove next to the steaming hot. However, when we came to the side when the Flaming Mountains, descending from the heavens even continuous drizzle, was so coincidence! Turpan's annual rainfall is less than 200 mm, said that even if the rains do not see the rain soaked the ground, but we saw the rain get wet Turpan ground, whether it is mud or asphalt in the parking lot, a humid scene, and tour guide, said: "It's rare, but the past 10 years!" We are seeing the Flaming Mountains as palm-leaf fan fan has just been too general, visitors to cover embarrassing face looking at the car bonnet to run, do not have some funny.

You could say that, we were not the time. Terror, July 24, there had been three days here were recorded in 47.6 ℃ The maximum temperature of the whole of China. Tomorrow it wants to, but the evening we would leave Turpan to Urumqi to go, and missed the experience of being roasted, sweet, really sorry!

Flaming Mountains, there are numerous valley, rich alpine snow and underground flow of moisture for the hidden valley where agriculture, which is the most famous Grape Valley. Grapes, is the heyday of the Silk Road in the desert, the plants introduced to China from the West, one of the Turpan these foreign immigrants living here for dozens of centuries, not only to take root here, but also nourished all life here.

Although their early immigrants from Europe, but is still known as the Turpan grapes home, and only forward Grape Valley, before we know why there is such a good reputation in Turpan. Soso grape, buy grape, the grape, that grapes, dark brown, light green, light yellow, there are seeds, no seeds, at least a dozen. Yousheng grapes, there are raisins, seedless grapes one kilogram of raw 1 RMB is simply super-cheap. Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and is producing litchi, longan and other fruits there, but the lychee longan can not buy this at the local cheap price, longan at least 5 yuan a jin (500 grams), litchi is more expensive. Is the grape is too low price? Or the people here are too simple?

As for the price of raisins, they vary widely, and there are 15 yuan a kilogram, while others are 200 yuan a kilogram of. Soso grape said to have some efficacy for treating heart disease, from 240 down to 160 by our result, people only buy a half a kilo, just to Chang Changxian, too expensive! Can not afford.

August is the season of ripe grapes, but it came to Grape Valley in July, already fruitful vine, despite the hanging vine useful written in Chinese and Uygur "Do not pick grapes," however, such as Granny Liu Jin as Grand View Garden of us, or put it down on the grapes on the shelf, it was secretly picked one and put his mouth: "uh! are sour." grapes have not yet matured, of course, sour. Everyone laughed together.

Grape trellis, is an accommodating, smooth river water was very cold, seemingly to the snow melting on the peaks. In addition to mountains of snow, Turpan underground irrigation systems is relatively well-known known locally as "Karez." Terrain below sea level, Turpan, and his elevation of "low" degree second only to the Dead Sea in Jordan, the second highest in the world, so although the Taklamakan Desert is located in the northern end of the annual rainfall less than 200 mm, but the As the low-lying compared to close to the underground water sources, local people depend on the flow of groundwater flow, drilled one after another for irrigation and drinking groundwater systems - Karez. .

To Karez, first arrangements to watch the national performances, passionate dance, high singing, performing with the Muslim atmosphere for us to open a trip to Xinjiang, a prelude to the performance of such feeling like a stranger, but we seem to have Back to Malaysia feeling. Appearance with the erhu, Banhu liuqin Chinese music and other similar instruments, but has a different name, both Tal, thermal tile Fu Da Bo, playing the Bull, Ai Jie-Ke, HU Sital, Dong Bula, Chapa in accordance with such and so on, what's what in the end, that is, um, mind, although still remember the names of these instruments, but they look like have become blurred too can no longer recall the.

We see Karez is the Turpan Basin is also a shorter one from the ground near it is 250 years ago, according to a Ming Jiaomi wood Haji (also known as Ah Chi, who is a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca The honorific) led the local people dug, the length of 3 kilometers from the ground height of 9 meters, is now a daily irrigation of 60 acres of land, the water quality of natural mineral water standard. According to reports, in Turpan, such groundwater systems, there are more than 1200 articles, Turpan and that the reputation of melons and fruits, that is, by these Zhangzhangduanduan Qanats a piece of land out of irrigation.

Huaizhe mood Karez reluctant to part of our journey the most exciting and most alien coming to an end a period style. Turpan Basin, China's most hot lands, but feeding the countless fruits, and these fruit was actually a few centuries ago, Hu providers shipped from the West, grapes, walnuts, Elaeagnus, almond and so finally found a fall their own paradise, and we must continue our journey to find our paradise.

Pen in: Urumqi Food Building

Author: tanpei