Yumenguan Han Great Wall and the river outside the warehouse city car to continue moving in the bright sunlight, as long as the sun areas that are not very cool. Can be even if in the car, the sun is burning in the body. To the Gobi, I know why though the temperature is high, drinking a lot of water, we do not have any sweat to flow, and no toilets anywhere easy to find, that our water are along with the breeze blowing and the dry air evaporation lost, these are here all year round sports car Wang, Master told us. Master Wang, simple and honest along the way and opened a chatterbox, tell us a lot of unheard of things. Gobi where animals, plants, an oasis in the Gobi desert and the mirage, and guide us to those who deserted places to see those historic relics and Gobi wilderness where those strange natural phenomena.
Cars in the vast desert on the Mercedes-Benz, front and side of the lake is far appeared faint and oasis, we are pleased to ask Chef Wang is also approaching an oasis, and Wang Master smiled and told us that it is inside the strange desert mirage. We do not believe my eyes, let Chef Wang stopped the car, carefully watching those mirage, lamented the magic of nature. A distant mirage constantly changing beautiful scene, a small island faded, and a piece appeared in the woods, lake, sometimes big, sometimes small, sparkling, while deemed to breeze blowing, the island has emerged , the lake is becoming increasingly visible, let us first into the desert people are imagination, ecstatic. We are constantly pressed the camera shutter, hoping to leave this eternal moment.
Move on, we came to the Tang poet Wang Zhihuan's "liangzhou word" where referred to in yumenguan ago. His "The Yellow River is far on the clouds, the one isolate them Maninsan, Qiangdi why complain willow, spring is not degree yumenguan" in the name famous more so Yumenguan pass through the ages. Yumenguan, commonly known as a small square plate the city, is located 90 km away from the Dun god of the Gobi Desert on the north-west direction, leading to the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty the westernmost one border. Because the input from a large number of Western Region Central Plains beautiful jade, it is called yumenguan. And west, there is a preserved yumenguan Silk Road, can still see the ancient ruts and footprints.
Yumenguan existing towers in the Shule River for a Tucheng Tucheng with yellow clay Ben Zhu, intermediate mix of Wei Cao, approximate square. The city north to south and 26.4 meters, 24.5 meters from east to west, the walls 9.7 meters high, 3.7 meters wide, remaining an area of more than 600 square meters. West, North, two walls have a gate, through the wind and frost in 2000, the erosion of earth walls mottled bear, showing a bleak experienced many vicissitudes. According to historical records, in the Han Dynasty, the Jade Gate in the vicinity, or a lush place, cattle and sheep everywhere, flower and fruit fragrance. Shule from its side flowing slowly, raising the people there. As the frontiers of the needs and gather the merchants, here was a bustling border town. Zeng geometry, the death of smoke, having no degree of Yumen the spring, and now can not even yumenguan degrees inside, and far to stay in the vicinity of the Dun dry moat. Can Yuan standing on the edge yumenguan Everywhere around, and everywhere Cang Yi, past the endless flow of Shule River is now the season has become difficult to see the water, river, only in the river bed and left a number of weak Wei Cao, numerous desolate Hoang.
Yumenguan westbound out of along the ancient Great Wall and the rut Ben Han River warehouse city away. Slow the car down, where the Gobi Desert Yardang Landform features began to emerge, we saw a number of bizarre wind platform, business as usual is a dazzling yellow, not the slightest signs of water or life. Vehicles on the road in these rugged tough road. 5 kilometers west of the Jade Gate, there is a national board of the most unique land reed into the Han Dynasty built the Great Wall, Feng Sui in the ignition with the one side there is the product of salary stack up to 15 piles, and the larger long 2 meters wide and 1.5 m, more than 1.3 meters high, are condensed as hard for the fossils. From here, Feng Sui allegedly had an unearthed Han Dynasty more than 1,200 pieces, it is rare. From afar, Gobi Desert stretches with intermittent walls lie to those who can only be seen near Bai Qiannian After the wind and rain, lighter ordered unbridled wilderness of the north wind, past towering city wall has become short and small scattered emerged in time to the time when Ben Zhu Wei Cao yellow clay and traces of mottled patterns, such as paralysis, collapse of the ladder on the ground, bear days of mourning. There is also like a page of non-word book from heaven, waiting for us latecomers to the study and exploration. Those ancient Feng Sui, though erosion has also been disabled bear, but it can still be seen from the towering majesty of the year, to appreciate the Chinese of that era of glory and achievement, glory and dreams. Han Dynasty Great Wall can be seen standing on edge of its important military value: in this great boundless desert, the endless, without any natural barriers strong enough to resist outside the customs of those nomadic invaders, the construction of the Han Great Wall to defend the peace of the Western Han Dynasty with an indelible achievements.
Warehouse built in the Han river town, located 12 km northeast yumenguan, because known as the small square plate than the city of yumenguan large, hence the name plate and generous city, as a storage site. The city was square, after thousands of years of wind erosion four walls all the others are collapsed, the only remaining east and north walls and the corner angle Tun residues. City, north Shule, Shule shipping conditions were better then, the ancients to the boat for crossing, transport, Jiuquan and Dunhuang oasis production of grain and fodder to this gun store for guard yumenguan jurisdiction charger plug to use. Emperor Wu of Han then attack is said to disturb the side of the Huns, were part of this river town warehouse army of grain and fodder supply, ensuring the smooth progress of the war.
River city construction in the warehouse of about 3 m above the earth Beaches plateau, due to clinical Shule, so that river town warehouse. Its north and south are higher than the big castle Shu Zhang Gobi embrace, so that he positions the city in very discreet. Less than front, this position is very difficult to find the city, the ancient piece of local repair options munitions warehouse, indeed painstakingly. Gobi Desert also has a good guard several positions City Feng Sui, as if the castle's eyes, where watched warily observe river town warehouse. Year guard Yumenguan, Yang Guan, Great Wall, Feng Sui, and go west into the east of the frontier soldiers were needed for food, clothing, forage and other supplies, all available from here, scale is evident. River City is the ancient warehouse in northwest China has survived the Great Wall frontier old, larger, rare munitions warehouse.
Now remnants of the city wall was further fortified river positions than yumenguan large, its sad Cang scenery even more beautiful than the yumenguan experienced in 2000 years of vicissitudes, the river city warehouse still stand upright in the Shule River almost dry. Silhouetted against the blue of the sky, the ancient river town warehouse showing a bright golden color. Stands tall towering ruins jie ao and quietly speak of its merits and demerits of the year feats in abundance, glory and change.
Position away from the river city of about 1 kilometer east of the Shule River flood, there are a small piece of beautiful pastures from afar, green grass and plants horses, cattle, goats and horses on pasture quietly eating grass, a person to wear thick clothes, wearing a headscarf to spend the Uygur aunty look after them. Pasture edge trees whirling delivered, like a painted picture frames, as we daily see the landscape in general, quiet calm. Is simply inconceivable that, in addition to a small area then the other is the large expanse of the Gobi desert, only the hot sun and drought, sandstorms and Canyuan. God so arranged the earth of these wayward and helpless people and the land, standing on this piece of dry land, I deeply feel that the "everything becomes possible" the helplessness and hollow, felt the years of vicissitudes, and ruthless.
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