Many people have been to the Crescent Lake in Dunhuang. Many people have never been to Moon Lake in Tengger.
Both Crescent Lake and Moon Lake are surrounded by deserts. Because by the side of Dunhuang, Crescent Lake is full of culture, it looks delicate and delicate, like a graceful woman; because in the depths of Tengger, Moon Lake has a wild temperament, although it is also delicate, but it is more tenacious , like a heroic man.
The exquisite and graceful Crescent Lake has already been described by many admirers, and I am no longer allowed to parrot it, let alone to add more to it. I can't help but just want to tell you, the tenacious and heroic Moon Lake in my eyes.
The 43,000-square-kilometer Tengger Desert is the fourth largest desert in my country, straddling the two provinces of Gansu and Inner Mongolia. Moon Lake is a natural lake in the hinterland of Tengger Desert, with an area as small as 3 square kilometers.
Looking west from the east of the lake, the lake looks like a curved moon, while looking east from the sand dunes on the west side of the lake, the lake looks more like a map of China. The herdsmen in the scenic area will tell you that this is a bay of holy water, which is called "Moon Lake", also known as "China Lake". In Mongolian, Tengger means sky, which means that the vast quicksand here is like the boundless sky. This is not only the moon in the sky, but also the motherland on the ground.
Moon Lake is located in Alxa Left Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, but most people who visit him start from Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and the distance between the two places is about 130 kilometers.
After a donkey friend visited, he left a message on the Internet saying: Come to Moon Lake, not only to see the scenery here, but also to feel the life in this world.
In the scorching June, I left Yinchuan City, headed northwest, crossed the Helan Mountain and Ming Great Wall between the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the Yinchuan Plain, and drove for two hours to the entrance of Moon Lake Scenic Area.
At the entrance, the rolling sand dunes are like a high wall, staggered and intertwined in front of the eyes. There is no trace of water, and there is no smell of water. Clear lake water and tenacious life. It is precisely because of this that the expectations of this trip are enough to tempt and fascinate.
From the entrance to the lake, there are still 15 kilometers. Transfer to a specially modified off-road vehicle in the scenic spot, and start a 30-minute sand sea surfing.
The sand dunes on the road are of different sizes and heights. The master driving the off-road vehicle specially chooses the surging peaks and valleys to move forward bravely, climbing, diving, climbing, and diving again, allowing passengers to experience overweight, weightlessness, and overweight again and again. , And then the feeling of weightlessness. Seeing that the slow off-road vehicle was hung on the half slope, panting and humming, it seemed that it could no longer climb the sand dunes, but with a loud roar, it had already passed the top, flew into the air in an instant, and then galloped down. Suddenly, the master cut the car across the sloping sand dune slope and played a game of flying over the eaves and walls...
At first, the passengers in the car who were restrained by seat belts were all terrified, their muscles tensed and their bodies stiffened, their hands clung to everything that could be held firmly, their spirits were raised to their throats, and they screamed out in shock. scream. A few minutes later, the passengers who had adjusted their emotions gradually got used to the rhythmless rhythm. Although they were still yelling and screaming, they were no longer terrified and frightened, but cheered and cheered. At this moment, the dialogue between man and nature has become arrogant and charming.
However, when they got off the off-road vehicle, people saw a wall of confession, and saw the price that human beings paid for their once arrogant and pampered. What came into view was a row of blackened dead wood and rotten branches. On the wooden sign erected next to it, in both Chinese and English, there is a passage like this written all over it:
The branch of the plant placed here - Haloxylon, is widely distributed in the Alxa region. It is resistant to wind and sand, salt and alkali, and drought. It has a well-developed root system and extremely tenacious vitality. It can not only prevent wind and fix sand, prevent land desertification, but also protect surrounding desertified grasslands, playing an incomparable role in maintaining ecological balance. Due to overgrazing and deforestation, Haloxylon has become scarce, land desertification has become increasingly serious, large areas of green trees have become dead wood, and the ecology has been destroyed. Facing these destroyed natural resources, can we arouse our inner self-blame and remorse? I hope that each of us, whenever and wherever, will start from ourselves to protect our common home.
After reading this passage, looking at the blackened dead wood and rotten branches in front of me, some are as thick as human arms, and some are as strong as thighs, and I think of the Haloxylon, Caragana, Seabuckthorn and flower sticks are weak, but as thick as a finger. When will they grow as tall, strong and green as the dead wood and rotten branches in front of us in such a harsh environment? My heart is full of unease, and I can't help but pray silently: My little tree, grow up quickly!
Next to the confession wall, there are steamed bun-shaped sand dunes, on which some plants grow sparsely, thick and short like chopsticks, some are stubbornly spitting out green shoots, and some have dried up into firewood, like bald mangy heads.
With a little uneasiness, he turned around slowly, and couldn't help being overjoyed. In the distance behind him was a clump of lush reeds. A wooden plank road separates the reeds from the middle and leads directly to further places. The end of the plank road should be Moon Lake.
At the end of the plank road, I jumped on a ferry boat and drifted leisurely on the rippling blue lake, which made me feel much refreshed. I suddenly thought of asking where the clear water in the vast sea of sand came from. come. The smiling scenic tour guide said sadly: "The melted snow water from Qilian Mountain seeps into the ground and travels thousands of miles. It flows here, and when it encounters a geological fault, it gushes out a large lake. Unfortunately, people don't cherish it, and the desert continues to expand. The big lake kept shrinking and broke into several small lakes that were not connected. In the end, there was only this moon lake, half of which was fresh water and half of which was salt water."
Half is fresh water and half is salt water, which also implies that the life experience of Moon Lake is half sweet and half bitter.
About the past and present life of Moon Lake, the boatman who swayed the scull told a legendary story. According to legend, during Emperor Kangxi's conquest of Galdan, a Han youth was seriously injured and had to recuperate here. During this period, a Mongolian girl named Wuyun came to take care of him every day. When the youth's injuries were healed, the two also cultivated a beautiful relationship, and they became husband and wife sweetly. They live a loving life here. Three years later, the young man was homesick and decided to go back to his hometown to see his parents.
Unexpectedly, it took another three years to say goodbye, waiting left and right, the girl never waited for her youth again, and her eyes were filled with tears of longing every day. The wife didn't know that her husband had already died on the battlefield in the war against Galdan again. When the tears of longing were about to flow dry, the merciful and merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva knew about it, so he took the willow branches in the cleansing bottle, dipped them in the girl's tears, and created a lake, so that the girl's eyes would never fade away. dry up. People named this lake Wuyun Nuoer, which means Moon Lake in Mongolian, and Moon Lake is the crescent-like eyes of Wuyun girl.
Moon Lake is also Tengger's beautiful eyes. The beautiful Moon Lake persists tenaciously in the desert of Tengger. It has never dried up, selflessly nurturing the lives that pass here every year. The salty and moderate lake water nourishes countless fish and shrimps. Every spring and autumn, flocks of white swans, shelducks, gray cranes, red geese, mandarin ducks and other migratory birds come here to rest, replenish their energy and multiply.
Moon Lake is the only original ecological lake with a coastline in the Tengger Desert. It’s midsummer, the grass is green by the lake, the reeds are rustling in the lake, and the cool breeze is blowing on the lakeshore. Lovingly nurturing the wow-wowing little swallow...
I have seen a lot of sand, but when I go deep into the hinterland of the desert, the lake water pats the beach, the beach is connected to the sand mountain, the sand mountain is connected to the blue sky, and the scene of the blue sky holding the clouds is still very exciting. Step by step, climb up the high sand hill with difficulty, and what you see is a golden sand dune that rises and falls to the sky. On the endless sand dunes, there are countless sand patterns carved by strong winds and decorated by small winds. Under the sunshine, The sand grains between the sand grains are shining with light and dark colors, which makes people look at the ocean and sigh: the vastness is all sand, and the beauty is all paintings.
Thanks to years of ecological protection and the natural and beautiful environment, Moon Lake has won the title of "the most romantic lake in China". The Tengger Desert Moon Lake Tourist Resort has been built here, and it has become an ecological A destination for adventure and leisure getaways. In addition to riding an off-road vehicle driven by others to experience the thrill of surfing in the sand sea, you can also drive an ATV or go-kart to experience the feeling of galloping on the beach and galloping on sand beams, and you can also ride a camel to experience the thrill of rafting in the sand sea. Fun, you can also sit on a skateboard, from the steep sand cliff, and indulge in the next flight.
After indulging in joy, how dare you forget the blackened dead wood and rotten branches in front of the confession wall? Go to the eco-museum by the lake to learn about what is azalea, what is Haloxylon tree, what is Achnatherum splendens, which are flower sticks, which are Salix salix, which are Populus euphratica, and then go to Shawowo to find out their true nature. Body, face to face with them, chat, talk heart to heart. They are the aborigines in the desert, and they are tenaciously defending Tengger, Moon Lake, the resort area, and the human homeland and the world.
They are as tenacious as we are, and they still have to protect each other.
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