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Away from Urumqi, Xinjiang, about 180 kilometers south-east, there is one known as the Silk Road had a splendid pearl of great significance in world history ----- Turpan city.
Two years ago in August, the season of ripe grapes, and we drive from Urumqi, take a paved road, take a desert road, off the western singers Wang Luobin due to the "big board city girl" and famous for a big board with the World City, went straight to Turpan. Along the way, Gobi is long, but no trees, but no grass, deserted. In our parched boring intolerable when, with the marked increase in temperatures, trees gradually increased, known as "Fire Island," said the country's hottest Turpan up. In more than half a day, we toured the beautiful Grape Valley, Karez, as well as spectacular magic Sugong Tower ......
Charming Grape Valley

Circulating in Xinjiang, saying that: no to Kashi, Iran, the same as not to Xinjiang; Similarly, the taste did not go to Turpan Turpan grapes, but also a great pity. In Turpan, the Grape Valley is a charming visitors must go to the land.
Turpan Grape Valley is located 10 kilometers northeast of place. From the city of Turpan, driving half an hour to go before known as "Fire Island Taohua Yuan," said the Grape Valley. Grape Valley is actually a north-south length of about 7 kilometers from east to west width of 2 km of the gorge, famous for grape-growing. Grape Valley on both sides of the slopes, due to drought and water shortage, in addition to sparse scattered trees at the Chang-Yang trees, is an almost barren. Yet there can be Grape Valley Journey Into Amazing Caves. Flowing all day long relied on the melting snow from the Tianshan Mountains, furrows of trees, the vine into a film, gurgling water, beautiful scenery everywhere, lush, like the green of the sea. The most attractive thing that hung on the branches of the grape, it seems shrouded in Irene, paving the green carpet, green and very pure and bright, green and get DiCui and charming. Here the main growing seedless white grapes, there are horses breast, red grapes, Kashihaer, Japan and Canada dry, Haloxylon and dozens of varieties. Its fruit spherical, oval, oblong, etc., and some grapes, such as crystal pearls, and some bright like ma brain, while others, if emerald green, as well as the white crystal makes dazzling. Dark green, and black and red, and yellow and white, and deep plum, and light brown, and that colorful, green dripping of fresh grapes, more than mouth-watering. In particular, where production of Thompson Seedless grapes, thin, tender meat, juicy, delicious, nutrient-rich, known as "Pearl" laudatory.
At the company into a film under the grape trellis, in order to facilitate the admiring visitors, the construction of several grape corridor, very different from ordinary park is surrounded by promenades on both sides and kiosk are all grape trellis. Promenade at the end of the monument, the "Grape Valley" three red characters and lush vines frame exist side by side. Visitors in the gallery of stone benches on the cool air, rest, rounded mouth-watering grapes reach out available. As long as you spend two dollars, the owner will give you a grape platter, no matter how you pick at random; can also enjoy the owner had picked up and immersed in the Tianshan snow in advance of the grapes. My fellow named Wu, sitting on stone bench, please beautiful, "Aida guri" Duan Shangyi disk to. I carefully a "nuclear-free white" into her mouth and gently bite and felt willing to cleanse refreshing, Earned dripping; another bite, refreshing, relaxed and happy during the journey to the tired, hot and vanished. "Excitement, Excitement, come one." Xiao Wu, ate and was full of praise. "Seedless", "horse breast" worthy of the fine grape, thin skin, tender meat, crisp and juicy, sweet but not greasy. Both of us have been eating belly bulging Fang Cai let it go.
If you think that only grapes Grape Valley, it was wrong. Layers of terraced fields on both sides of the ditch, the dotted with peach, pear, apple, apricot, stone slip trees and other fruit trees. According to historical records, the Grape Valley fruit growers have been thousand years of history. Today, the local take full advantage of the rich fruit resources, production raisins, wine, grapes and other canned products, and formed a grape-based fruit base. According to an inspection, Grape Valley grape sugar content as high as 20 - 24%, ranking in the world. With Thompson Seedless grapes hanging on the system of fresh raisins, sugar content as high as 60%, to be seen as grapes in the treasure.

Magic Karez

When the car when traveling in the Turpan Basin, in the vast Gobi Desert, more often than they could see the neatly arranged rows of cone-shaped mound, like a grave-ying piles. When I felt puzzled at first glance, there is such a neat arrangement of the graves do? After being introduced to-know, and that is being described as descendants of ancient China, one of three major projects, and lie thousands of miles of the Great Wall, the Grand Canal north-south longitudinal par, the magic of the Karez, it is a great creation of ancient Chinese people of all nationalities the crystallization of .
According to tour guides, due to the special geographical conditions, Turpan, high-temperature drier, water, expensive, such as oil. Although there are stretching the Tianshan Mountains, but the summer melting of the snow is not such as flow and villages, fields, has long evaporated. In order to survive, multiply, from the mid-18th century began, hardworking and intelligent people of all nationalities and nature Turpan making unremitting struggle. Turpan Basin, according to geographic conditions, solar radiation and atmospheric circulation features, after a long labor and production practices, and created a reference to the use of underground water surface slope of the unique ------ Karez underground water conservancy projects. At present, a total of Turpan Karez area more than 1100 Road, more than 20 kilometers long, short, only 100 meters, total length of 4400 kilometers, the annual flow of up to 3 billion cubic meters to irrigate the land for more than 35% of Turpan.
Said Karez magic, the main it works great, the construction difficult. Karez from the shafts, culverts, open channel, flood dam composed of four parts. Shaft is to dig culverts and the repair people with disabilities access to and use, the length of wellhead 1 m wide and 0.7 meters or so, is also a vent; culvert is the main body of Karez, that underground river, the general height of about 1.7 meters and a width of 1.2 m; open channel, that is, between the culvert outlet to the drainage of farmland; flood dam is the culvert outlet, the construction of a reservoir, saving a certain amount of water, and then irrigate their fields.
312 State Road, 2 kilometers south of the sub-village of Karez children Township, Asian children park, we visited thousands of articles in the Turpan Karez the best known, there are 200 years of history, Kinuko representative m aggui Karez. The well is because Dole is the only tribe I m agi first dig clothing made of wood, so this name.
The shaft in the Karez wells, built thanks to an Islamic-style arches Zi type of Karez Pavilion Jimuyuantiao lean on a railing, the distance Huoyanshan Mengmenglonglong, near the lush vineyards, the Kaner park the scenery. Soon picked up a very winding path down corridors, we came to a culvert at the outlet. By the dim light near a few lights looked inside, and channel a little bit as we dig air-raid shelter during war, arched top, sides smooth, the bottom of the watercourse; then further afar, you see nothing, and can only be hear the buzzing sound of running water. Standing Karez underground river mouth, looking at the dark underground river, watching the clear water from the ground, open channel Karez, happily into farmland. I am particularly cool and cozy at the same time, as if to see that our working people are using primitive mining tools, and the struggle against nature. This is magic Karez is the smart people of Xinjiang, the crystallization of the struggle against nature.

Sugong spectacular tower

To Turpan, a place can not not go, that is the national key cultural relics protection unit, the magnificent Sugong ---- Islamic ancient pagoda tower, but also places Minta.
Sugong Tower is located in eastern outskirts of Turpan City, 2 kilometers north of the city of ancient Araki Munage Village is an existing building in Islam in Xinjiang's largest and most magnificent ancient pagoda, built in 1777 and has more than 200 years of history .
Out of Turpan city, east, far will be able to saw the cone Zhuang, such as huge vases of the buildings, towering in the vast field, the clouds in the blue sky against the background, look eye-catching. Stayed near to be found Sugong Tower unique style, both solemn, ancient, style, and highly with the Islamic national identity. All with the blue gray brick tower built on a small great, showing conical; base diameter of 10 meters, the overall high 44 meters; tower center of spiral-shaped step 72, rotation to progressive adduction to the top of the tower. In different directions around the tower and height, with 14 windows. The surface of sub-stack tower puzzle out the triangle pattern, four patterns, water ripples, Link Check, etc. 15 kinds of geometric patterns can be described as exquisite peerless.
Sugong Tower is a famous Qing Dynasty Prince Turpan Emin and Zhuo built. Emin and Zhuo Emperor Kangxi during the year due to send troops conquered the Junggar policy department head and the subsequent jump to Elabutan Side of the Qianlong Emperor sent troops to another term Junggar separatist leader of Dawa Qi activities, fighting heroic feats of excellence, and, after Rebellion against the activities of several neutral and the power, the Qing government policy has been labeled Fuguo Gong, Zhen Guogong, Kaiko, multi-Luobei Le, after being sealed for the Turpan Prince stationed in Seoul chigger leaves act. In order to Kung Pao Yan Qing dynasty, the opportunity, to express their devotion to God and make their life performance Liufang later, the construction of the Sugong Tower. Sugong tower at the entrance, there is a stand Qianlong four decades of stone, the inscription to the effect that: Emin and Zhuo since the Prince has been appointed to Turpan by Pei-fu heaven, bless Qunsheng, no disaster without difficulty. For the Kung Pao Yan Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong, special repair a tower to hang forever. From Emin and Cho's life is not difficult to see that he was an outstanding patriot, in order to safeguard national unity and reunification of the motherland, especially to make a contribution.
With the adjacent tower Sugong Sugong Tower Mosque is the Islamic Mosque in Xinjiang, one of the largest, covering 2,500 square meters, spacious interior, building a solemn, ancient, can accommodate thousands of people to do is Mazi. Every Ramadan, Eid al-Adha, the Muslim masses, nearly three-person group, five clusters and flock to Mosque; far, riding donkey, riding a bike, by car from all directions gathered here, awarded by the ceremony, saint, to pray for blessing

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