Set foot on the Silk Road (5) - the source of Karez Oasis
The Gobi Desert in the June sun exposure, the gray-black ground emitting a steaming hot, empty land was deadly silence. We continue to Turpan along the desert road ahead, in the vast Gobi Desert oasis in sometimes to see a film, like the endless ocean islands. Lush oasis of trees, dark green and green one group, in the vast Gobi Desert, appear quite vibrant, full of vitality. What is the force of severe drought, bad environment generate the Gobi Desert Oasis. This strange phenomenon, thanks to a unique water project in Xinjiang - Karez.
Karez and the Great Wall, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and known as the three major projects in ancient China, mainly distributed in the Turpan basin, Hami and Wo-base region. Karez is actually underground river, made mostly from hand-dug from the culverts, open channel, shaft, and the composition of waterlogging dam. Turpan basin, north and west of Bogda Mountain, a mountain of Kala Wu, spring and summer there are a lot of snow and rain water flow down the valley to sneak into the Gobi Desert the next. It cited the use of underground mountain slope undercurrent of irrigated farmland, the Kaner not because of hot, strong winds Ershi evaporation, thus flow stability, and ensure that the natural irrigation.
Around noon, we came to Turpan city. Turpan is the source of a sudden Que names, intended to rich fertile place, the history of the sericulture industry in 1:00 heyday, was once a sign of the Silk Road city of civilization. Turpan is inhabited by Uighurs, the year from June to August the average maximum temperatures are above 30 degrees, light bare surface temperature were as high as 82.3 degrees, the "Fire Island," said. Here trees, with poplar main roads are dirt roads. A mesh-like distribution of a small ditch in the vineyards, wayside, and some ditches have dried up, ditch the tall and straight poplar long-Liang Bang, a film full of vineyards, covered with scaffolding like grapes In the video seen on two or three meters high, it is only one meter tall man ease of picking, as grapes not yet mature, we have seen the size of grapes is only peanuts. Hobble around in a number of housing low drying raisins on top of the shed. We braved the scorching sun came to a Karez to visit from the shaft down to the culvert mouth, waves of cool air rushing toward us, it is relaxed and happy. -Like clear spring water flows down the crash of the ... ...
According to tour guide said, Turpan has an uncle in order to divert moisture dry homes, dig wells more than life, alone mining Karez hundreds of kilometers, people admire.
1 Karez is an immortal springs, there are places where there is an oasis Karez, there is life. Turpan Karez nearly a thousand, full-length of about 5,000 km, and its total length is longer than the Great Wall twice, but also far beyond the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. This underground Great Wall in Xinjiang, the crystallization of wisdom and industriousness of the people is China's a big miracle.
Author: zzy988
