Endless Gobi desert, not a single grass, not a stream, summer temperatures as high as 70℃; There is not a bird in the sky, nor any bird dares to cross; The wind here is particularly strong, especially much, every year the seven or more strong weather reaches more than 200 days; The annual rainfall here is only 39 millimeters, but the evaporation is a hundred times that.
In 1980, Peng Jiamu, a famous scientist, went missing while on a scientific expedition here. The explorer Yu Chunshun died here again in 1996; From Loulan ruins to double fish jade pepe, to the rise of the mushroom cloud; This is Lop Nur, a place full of mystery, a place to aspire to, a place that shocks the world.
Throughout the ages, in order to uncover the true face of Lop Nur, countless explorers want to uncover the mystery of Lop Nur, but they are gone forever, so people call Lop Nur area the "devil's triangle area". Lop Nur, also known as Lop Nur, is located in the northeast of the county of the Uygur Autonomous Region, the lowest part of the Tarim Basin, Tarim River, Kongqi River, Cherchen River, river and so on converge here. With a total area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the total area of the province, Lop Nur was once the second largest saltwater lake in China, and was known as the "ear of the Earth" because of its shape like a human ear.
However, Lop Nur was not a life forbidden zone. In the distant past, it was an oasis of life with herds of cattle and horses, surrounded by green forests and clear rivers.
During the Han Dynasty, Lop Nur once had a large population and quite a large scale Loulan Kingdom. In 126 BC, Zhang Qian returned from his mission to the Western Regions and wrote to Emperor Wudi of Han: "Loulan, the Shi Yi has a city wall and is near Yanze." Since then, the kingdom of Loulan has gradually become known to people and has become a throat portal for the branches of silk.
According to Notes on Water Classics written by Li Dao-yuan, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the diversion of Zhuobin River in the middle reaches of Tarim River led to a serious shortage of water in Loulan. Soler of Dunhuang led 1,000 soldiers to Loulan, and convened 3,000 soldiers from Yanqi, Qiuci and the three countries, crossing the riverside day and night and diverting water into Loulan, which alleviated the water shortage in Loulan.
Best efforts have been made for hundreds of years, but Loulan is uninhabitable due to the ongoing drought. Prosperous Loulan, so far silently withdrawn from the stage of history, leaving only an empty city was gradually eroded into ruins by thousands of years of wind and sand, leaving people to sigh for later, not to reverie.
In 1921, the Tarim River was diverted to the east, and the water burst through the dunes into the lake. Lop Nur reappeared green and vibrant. By 1950, the area of the lake had reached more than 2000 square kilometers. After the founding of New China, the rise of many waves of reclamation, the surge of population on both sides of the Tarim River, water demand also increased. After the expansion of arable land to water, mining minerals need water, people desperately to the Tarim River for water. In the past few decades, more than 130 reservoirs have been built in the Tarim River basin, blindly using water like a water-sucking ghost, and finally draining the Tarim River.
The surrounding desertification is serious, and Lop Nur has become a dry salt pool. The herbs all die, the sand guard poplar trees die in patches, and the desert advances toward Lop Nur at a rate of 3-5 meters per year, quickly merging with the vast Taklimakan Desert. Lop Nur has since become a place where nothing grows, known as the "sea of death". From the county seat follow National Highway 315 all the way east into Lop Nur. There are no plants, no animals, no water, no buildings, no people, no signals, not even a sense of direction, nothing but the vast expanse of salt. In addition to gravel, or gravel; Nothing but rubble. Still rubble.
Lop Nur Town is a lake-facies deposit, due to the discovery of potassium-rich brine deposits, reserves of 200 million tons, is now the world's largest potassium sulfate production base. In order to facilitate mining, an area of 200 square kilometers of water has been created in the parched Lop Nur, presenting a new scene that has not been seen for eons.
With a floating population of 4,200, administrative needs arose. In April 2002, Lop Nur Town was officially set up. It is the first institution born in the no-man's land of Lop Nur after the disappearance of Loulan Ancient country for more than 1,000 years, with an area of 52,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the entire territory of the Hui Autonomous Region, and can be called the largest town in China.
The township has only one town, one, one road maintenance station. There are no streets in the town, which is a few adobe houses and a few simple sheds on the roadside, and a supermarket and a few small restaurants have been opened to provide services for big truck drivers who come to the potash mining area to pull goods. Therefore, Lop Nur town is definitely the largest and smallest town in China.
Yadan distributed in the north and east of Lop Nur, a piece of wind erosion formed Yadan, the earth is continuous, like the devil city on the wasteland. Dunhuang Yadan Devil City is a part of Ancient Lop Nur, located about 180 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang City and about 100 kilometers northwest of Yumen Pass. The park covers an area of 398 square kilometers.
Enter Yadan Devil city, just like to a decadent: castle walls, buildings, squares, streets, sculptures and other vivid, vivid, like a talented designer carefully laid out general, people relaxed, flying thoughts, floating imagination.