Does anyone know how many picturesque places there are in the outer northwest ceded to Tsarist Russia because of the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty?
Since the beginning of the middle and early periods, the Qing Dynasty government has coveted comfort and implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world, losing the opportunity to learn from advanced foreign civilizations and science and technology.
Years later, the corrupt and incompetent Qing government finally paid a heavy price for its own self-imposed self-imposed existence.
In 1840, the Opium War broke out, the British invaders opened the gate of China with a strong ship cannon, and the paper tiger of the Qing government was beaten out of its original form, opening the historical chapter of modern China's beating, land cutting, and indemnity.
After being beaten hard in the Opium War, the Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking with the British invaders.
In 1856, the Second Opium War broke out, the Anglo-French army invaded China, until 1860, the war ended, the Qing government was again severely attacked, Britain and France forced the Qing government to sign the "Treaty of Tianjin" and "Treaty of Beijing".
The tsarist nation, a fighting nation, took advantage of the fire and looting to force the Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, seizing more than one million square kilometers of Chinese territory, and at the same time forcing the terrified Qing court and polar bears to accept the redrawing of the northwestern border.
The trembling rulers of the Qing Dynasty, although they were so greedy that they were so greedy that they were so frightened, that they had to sign the Treaty on surveying and dividing the Northwest Boundary drawn up by Tsarist Russia in October 1864, a paper treaty that allowed 440,000 square kilometers of Chinese territory to enter the territory of polar bears.
Czarist Russia saw that the Manchu Qing government was so weak and continued to work hard. In 1884, the fighting peoples forced the Manchu Qing, who were engaged in civil war, to sign the Treaty of Continuing the Survey of the Kashgar Boundary, and the entire outer northwest region was swallowed up by Tsarist Russia.
Nowadays, many people are full of praise and praise for the fighting peoples, who have no idea or have selectively forgotten their homeland.
Today, I would like to take you back to the outer northwest that was ceded by the Qing government, what are the places with beautiful scenery and tourist attractions?
First, Lake Balkhash
Lake Balkhash, our ancestors called it Yibanhai, it is located in the southeast of present-day Kazakhstan, belongs to a dammed lake, the total area of the lake is 18,000 square kilometers, the altitude is 342 meters, the narrowest width from north to south is about 9 kilometers, and the widest place is about 74 kilometers.
Lake Balkhash has belonged to China since ancient times, and since the Han Dynasty has been the boundary lake between China and Russia, the Han Dynasty began to set up the Western Regions Capital Protectorate here, so the lake is a natural "border line".
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Lake Balkhash was controlled by the Dzungars.
After the Qing Dynasty pacified the Dzungar Khanate, Lake Balkhash was incorporated into the Qing Dynasty.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to accept the "Covenant on the Survey of the Northwest Boundary" and took Lake Balkhash, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lake Balkhash was returned to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Lake Balkhash is 605 km long, making it the fourth longest lake in the world.
The most beautiful lake in central Asia, the source of which began in Xinjiang, China, is the Ili River, its largest 'supplier', and its water into Lake Balkhash accounts for about 80% of the total water inflow. In the middle reaches, the lake water injected into the river gradually decreases, and the eastern lake becomes salty, and there is a strange phenomenon of one lake and two waters, and the upper (swimming) is lighter (swimming) and the lower (swimming) is salty.
The basin of Balkhash Lake is pleasant, the mountains are beautiful, the grass is green, the land on both sides of the river is fertile, the sheep are happy and horses are called, the rice is fragrant, and it has the reputation of plugging the Jiangnan.
Ii. Lake Issyk-Kul
It is an unfrozen lake with an area of more than 6,000 square kilometers, located in the Kunge Mountains to the north of the Tian Shan Mountains.
In the territory of today's Kyrgyzstan, it is a famous health resort in the world, known as the "Pearl of Northwest Asia".
The grain on both sides of Lake Issyk-Kul is fragrant, birds are singing, fish are flying in the lake, the mountains are towering, the forests are dense, and the sanatoriums are everywhere.
It's a picturesque place that people can't forget. A poem reads:
Smell the Yin Shan Hu'er language on the side, and the hot sea water in the west is boiled.
The birds at sea do not dare to fly, and some of the carp are long and fat.
This wonderland on earth also belonged to China, ancient Chinese called Qingchi, Tusichi, Atami, etc., the greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, Li Bai, was born here, and many of the poet's ancient sayings must have come from the wonderland of issak.
3. Lake Ala
Lake Ala covers an area of 2,600 square kilometers and is a salt lake in the territory of present-day Kazakhstan.
Lake Alas also belonged to China and was taken by the greedy Tsarist Russia.
The lake is located on the eastern side of Lake Balkhash, across the distance from alashankou in Xinjiang, China, less than 30 kilometers away.
On October 7, 1864, the Manchu Qing government signed the "Sino-Russian Survey and Division of the Northwest Boundary Treaty" with Tsarist Russia, and was forced to cede it.
In the spring, Lake Ala is full of rain and clouds, in summer the greenery is like the sea and birds are singing; and the peaks of the mountains are picturesque and golden at dusk.
The lakeside grassland breeze is gusting, and the fish in the lake are dancing.
People here say that if you don't get to Lake Ala, you will come to Kazakhstan in vain.
Fourth, Broken Leaf City
The poetic name of Broken Leaf City, which is famous in Chinese history, is entirely due to the poetry immortal Li Bai, who was born in the city in 701 AD.
This small city in the western foothills of Tianshan was also swallowed up by the czarist whale mouth until the "Sino-Russian Survey and Division of the Northwest Boundary Covenant" was released. According to the Chinese people's fanatical love of the birthplace of historical celebrities, if it has not been lost, it is bound to be a cultural and historical tourist resort, not a strange exotic town called Tokmok.
Five: The Pamir Plateau
The Pamir Plateau was once the most wonderful place in western China, and it once had a beautiful Chinese name: Onion Ridge.
Beginning with the Western Regions Protectorate of the Han Dynasty, Onion Ridge was an inalienable part of China's territory. During the Han Dynasty, Onion Ridge was under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Capital Protectorate; during the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Capital Protectorate exercised administrative power. After the Anshi Rebellion, the area once entered a state of division and broke away from the embrace of the motherland.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the western region was once again unified, and the Green Ridge became today's Pamir Plateau.
A series of humiliating treaties signed by the Qing government with Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth century caused the Pamir Plateau to be dismembered beyond recognition.
In today's Pamir Plateau, with the exception of the langkuri Pamir part and the small part of the Taktun Bashi Pamir that remain in China, most of the rest has long since changed hands and became the territory of Tsarist Russia, most of which now belongs to Tajikistan, and a small part is in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.
In history, Onion Ridge was once a necessary place for the ancient Chinese Silk Road, and many canyons became lush meadows due to the water melted by glaciers, with trees on the ridge, dense lakes under the ridge, first-class ecological environment, and very rich animal and plant resources, which have raised thousands of cattle and sheep in Tajikistan.