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Borrow a plantain fan and come to the Flame Mountain
In the story of "Journey to the West", when Sun Wukong made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, he kicked over the alchemy furnace of the Eight Trigrams of the Supreme Lord, and a few embers of the furnace fell to the ground in the world, and turned into a flaming mountain, where Tang monk and his disciples were hindered from learning scriptures. "Journey to the West" wrote: "On the west road there is the country of Shari, which is the place where the sun sets, and it is commonly called 'the end of the sky'. There is a flaming mountain here. There is no spring or autumn, and it is hot in all seasons. There are flames inside, and no grass grows around. If you cross the mountain, you will have a copper head and an iron body, and they will turn into juice!" Sun Wukong borrowed the banana fan from Princess Iron Fan three times, and fanned out the flames. Finally, the master and apprentice passed the Flame Mountain smoothly.
Facing the Flame Mountain, Tang Monk meditates and asks Buddha to bless him. Bajie calls out for heat, Drifting Monk is dejected, and Bailongma heat shows his original shape. Only Wukong looks from a distance to find a way to put out the fire
Seeing Tang Monk and his disciples trapped in the Flame Mountain, Princess Iron Fan hid the banana fan behind her, but refused to lend it to Wukong.
Princess Iron Fan's Old Bull Demon King
After all, the novel has elements of imagination and exaggeration in it, but when you travel to Turpan, Xinjiang, there is such a scenic spot as the "Flame Mountain". Fortunately, Monkey King "fanned" the flames with a plantain fan, and we were lucky enough to "visit here".
Turpan is the lowest, driest and hottest place in my country. Bogda Mountain in the north, Klau Cheng Mountain in the west, desert in the south, and Turpan in the basin. It is located in the hinterland of Eurasia, far away from the ocean, and has a dry climate, which is a typical continental arid desert climate. The sunshine here lasts for 12 or 13 hours in summer, coupled with the "foehn effect" of the basin, causing heat waves to roll in the basin. Turpan has a high temperature above 35 degrees for more than 100 days every year, the limit daily temperature is close to 50 degrees, and the surface temperature can even reach 85 degrees, so Turpan is known as the "Fire State" and is the hottest place in the country.
The world's largest thermometer (electronic thermometer) in the shape of a golden hoop
What is the temperature?
On the northern edge of the Turpan Basin, there is a mountain range 100 kilometers long from east to west, 10 kilometers wide from north to south, and with an average height of about 500 meters. , the Tang people once called it "Volcano" because of its heat.
It is called "Kiziltag" (meaning Red Mountain) in Uighur, and it is a red bed landform composed of red sandstone. When you come here in midsummer, you can clearly feel the thermal air rising and rolling, which is a veritable "flame mountain".
The slope of the "Flame Mountain" is covered with gullies. There is no grass on the mountain, the bedrock is exposed, and it is often covered by weathered sand.
In sharp contrast to the barren and barren mountains of the Huoyan Mountain, there are valleys passing through the mountain. Most of the valley bottoms are clear springs and shaded by trees, forming strips of long and narrow oases. The most famous valley is Grape Valley. There are Wood Ditch, Shengjinkou Ditch, Subashi Ditch, Lianmuqin Ditch and so on. Half is flame, half is oasis, an incredible Turpan Basin.
