Sailimu is Turkic, which means to bless peace. When Turkish travelers come here, they must say one thing to the lake.

Sailimu
What should I say? Is Sailimu in awe or pleasure?
Sailimu Lake is mysterious.
Sugongta
The Sugong Pagoda is far away from Turpan, and outsiders rarely visit it, so no one knows that it is not an ordinary pagoda, but it is an Islamic pagoda, not a stupa.
It is said that there are two structural towers like Su Gong Tower in China, and the other one is in Nanjing.
The tower is not layered, and you can’t see the stone-based wood. The tower center is a brick central column, and the disk around it spirals step by step, while the top shell of the tower is a huge cylinder with a sharp vault. This big cylinder is made of solid bricks, and the square bricks are concave and convex with different Central Asian styles. Several patterns are not decorated. Bricks are blue bricks coated with a layer of loess, which is light khaki. This loess is rich in soil, fine in impurities and rich in viscosity. Turpan Rainless Tower has not been scoured for more than 200 years. The height of the new tower is about ten stories, simple but not simple
The worship temple next to the tower is quite magnificent. The hall can be filled with thousands of people, but the appearance is very simple. The concept of this worship temple is too careful to dare not stand tall and not fight for power. Because this is a place of worship, the building is composed of parallel lines and vertical lines, and the arc is undulating and light khaki.
The square worship temple of the cylindrical Sugong Tower creates a very fresh contrast and is very harmonious. The pursuit of Sugong Tower is simple.
It is admirable that the tower builder designed the blue sky, simply contrasting and coordinating the light earthy yellow buildings, followed by the Turpan Basin, which is extremely clean, and the blue sky is so beautiful. How beautiful it is to have no blue sky to set off this light earthy yellow.
Su Gong Pagoda is also called Emin Pagoda. There are two kinds of opinions about the origin of the pagoda. One tablet at the entrance of the pagoda is half Chinese characters and the other is Uyghur Chinese characters. It is said that the pagoda was made by Emin. The inscription of the king of the county, who helped the Qing emperor to pacify Junggar, is a tribute to the Qing emperor. The first crown of the tablet is called Qing Qianlong, an old servant of the emperor. Uyghur said that it was made by Lai Su, the chief of Emin, who prayed to Allah. I don’t know what would happen. The two different opinions have different origins and the names of the pagoda
Grape Valley in Huoyanshan, Dagebi
From Urumqi to Turpan, we have to pass through a large Gobi desert, which is a typical Gobi desert. Nothing grows and there is no life. I always order Achnatherum splendens, Haloxylon ammodendron and red willows when I pass through other Gobi desert. Occasionally, one or two Datura trees are painted with white flowers like black paint, and crows are painted here. There are no birds, no insects or even traces of moss. It’s just a flat ground, and the ground is almost as flat as gravel, which seems to be screened and evenly spread in black and white. From a distance, it looks like a furnace ash. At first sight, it
Our car is running at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour on the flat asphalt road. I think the car is flying like a speedboat in the sea
Gobi often sees phantoms. Looking at a lake from a distance, it is clear that there is nothing approaching. Phantoms have deceived many thirsty travelers. Phantoms are not difficult to meet. We have seen them many times along the way.
How can people pass through such a place? Why do they pass through such a place? What are they going to do?
I can’t help but think of Zhang Qian, Ban Chao and Master Xuanzang. They are all great people.
We’re almost in Turpan, and we’ve already seen karez karez, which is like a giant ant bank with an underground canal to draw snow water from Tianshan Mountain. These giant ants are digging ditches and digging gravel piles now, and some karez wells have been abandoned, and some of them will still be a monument one day, but whenever we see these giant ants, we will still feel solemn and sad about history when we think that people can draw water from such a big Gobi surface.
When I arrived in Turpan, I saw houses, streets, trees and special dry and hot weather, and I was dizzy like a dream. I didn’t believe that we came from such a desolate Gobi Desert.
Turpan is a famous oasis. What do you mean by oasis? I know from my childhood that oasis is a place of water plants and trees, and since the famous continent must be small, it must be wrong. Oasis is a place where people live. Oasis means life, living, hard work, birth, death, anger, sorrow, happiness and humanity.
To the south of Turpan is the Flame Mountain.
The Gobi surface is boundless again, and the red flame mountain is in front of the Gobi. When it is close to the flame mountain, it is found that there are clumps of green Haloxylon ammodendron growing in the Gobi. How can it grow up in such a rainy and hot Gobi, and it is so green? I don’t know if it is so green or the red mountain makes it greener. Probably in the arid Gobi, all plants that can emit green are desperately green. This clump of green is a victory cry.
According to previous records, the flaming mountain is red in color, but it is also a mountain like a burning fire. Every fire has no color and shape in some places, and the flames are soaring. In some places, it has been burned into white. The head of the fire has twisted the waves, and a fire has been blown by the wind, which has become a long fire with a yellowish color. The small fire on several sides forced the smoke to overflow, while several small hills crossed and creased, and the black points were residual fires, which would extinguish the smoke.
The Flame Mountain is really a wonder.
The flaming mountain is probably caused by the wind, and the rocks are red, and the surface is weathered into fine red sand wind. Therefore, a hot and messy fire is carved in these loose sand, which is a big deal.
The surface temperature of Flame Mountain is over 70 degrees in hot summer.
A ravine in the Great Gobi of the Flame Mountain is more than ten miles long. One of the ravines comes from Tianshan Mountain. Except pomegranate flowers and cotton, the crops on both sides of the river are all grapes or grapevines.
There are raisins hanging everywhere in the grapevine ditch. The raisins are hung in the shade room, not in the sun. The four sides of the earthen house are covered with flowers, and the white grapes are hung in a long string. It is dried in Turpan and blown by hot air for 40 days, and it becomes raisins and transported to Beijing overseas.
The first grape variety in Turpan is not very sweet and the skin is very thin. It is not uncommon for Turpan people to eat grapes without spitting the skin, because the skin can spit, not only without spitting the skin, but also with the core. They think that the grape core is a good thing.
Handwritten in Lanzhou since September, 1998
Written in Beijing on January 7th.
Two notes of Xiang hang
The Peach Blossom Spring
When the car entered the Peach Blossom Garden, I saw a peach tree with flowers, four or five red flowers and rouge, and the weather in November was still peach blossom. These four or five red flowers seemed to be trying to prove that this was indeed the Peach Blossom Garden.
A comrade who came here also wanted us to take a look at the Peach Blossom Garden. When he heard that this Peach Blossom Garden was fake, he was not interested in coming. This comrade was so naive. How could the Peach Blossom Garden be true? The Peach Blossom Garden is an fable. Several peach blossoms in China were recorded by later generations according to the poems of the Peach Blossom Garden, and then the Peach Blossom Garden should be selected in China. This peach blossom garden belongs to Wuling in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, and a stream here leads directly to Taoyuan in Yuanjiang. The Peach Blossom Garden doesn’t say so. The fishing industry in Jin Taiyuan, Zhongyuan and
As soon as I put my travel bag away, my comrades from the Cultural Bureau came to greet me to eat tea. Tea has been famous for a long time. I didn’t expect that the first program after the car was to eat tea. Of course, I was very happy that the tea ginger sesame rice was put in a bowl with salt, and the hard miscellaneous wood was used to grind it into fine powder. When I was eating tea, I had to put more than a dozen dishes filled with fried rice, fried soybeans, fried beans, fried peanuts, fried sweet potato chips, fried crispy rice, pickled vegetables, sour and spicy, and even drank several bowls of tea. It’s especially good to eat Chinese onion. I’ve eaten more Chinese onion in Jiangxi, Hubei and Sichuan, but it’s not sour, sweet and spicy here. Chinese onion tastes strong in Taoyuan. People in Taoyuan love to drink tea. Farmers don’t eat at noon in summer. They just drink tea. They ask about the origin of tea. An old woman said that I would cure her. She said that the soldiers would be fine if they drank tea. When I was in the Three Kingdoms, it should be the place of Wu. If it is said that Lu Su or Zhou Yubing is almost the same, I always suspect that this tea drinking method came to Jisheng Tea House, the capital of Song Dynasty, and sold tea in winter. In winter, seven treasures of tea were added and sold. Hangzhou people ate thirty feet of wood a day, which means that they consumed the wooden mallet on the surface of the mallet every day. Perhaps Taoyuan people said that they ate thirty feet of wood a day. Hangzhou has a large population.
Beating mallets can beat other things, and of course, the word can also be used to beat tea. It is not the same meaning as beating drums. Putting ginger in tea is found in Wang’s wife’s family in Shuihu. On the 24th time, she wrote that this kind of tea is sold in Shuihu, and two cups of ginger tea will be put on the table in the future. Literally, there is nothing wrong with this kind of tea. I have heard that Wang Po sells tea, and Taoyuan beats tea. A certain origin is certain. It seems that many places in Hunan Province drink sesame bean tea, that is, stir-fried and crushed sesame, soybeans and peanuts are Without salt, the tea leaves are not finely ground, and after drinking the tea, the leaves are fished out and chewed in the mouth. This can be said to be the first cousin of Leicha. Hunan people love to eat ginger. More than ten years ago, when the bus arrived in Liuyang, Liling, people entrusted a porcelain plate with toothpicks. One toothpick was sliced thinly, and five or six pieces of ginger were inserted. People who sold passers-by bought a few strings of money and sat in the car and ate it like water. Therefore, Hunan people kept it from withdrawing ginger and used to eating ginger tea, which can treat some foreigners.