Wild lilies, also known as top ice flowers, white crocus, grow in alpine grasslands and are hardy.
Every year in March and April, the ice and snow on the large meadow at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains begin to melt, and this small flower emerges from under the ice and snow, opening up against the ice and snow, so it is called the top ice flower, an extremely beautiful name, as ice and jade as it looks.
It is said that wild lilies are cousins of saffron, close relatives, and are of course strange flowers and plants. It grows stubbornly in alpine places and is not afraid of the cold. At an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, the aerial grassland of Ili Narathi in Xinjiang is open everywhere. There is a song "Wild Lilies Also Have Spring" that is its most vivid portrayal, as if it is heralding something.
I have heard from nomads that wild lilies are also called sunflowers among the local population, and they do not know whether they are true or false, and they have not asked for verification. I think there may be such a name, combined with the Narathi aerial grassland, there are also people called the place where the sun rises, the sun god grassland.
In this pasture, every summer when the grass grows fat, the nomadic family will drive sheep, horses, cattle from far away to graze, and before winter comes, they will drive the cattle away.
Because this grassland has nurtured the nomads of the steppe and given them the hope of a peaceful and beautiful life, Narathi is a sacred and yearning place in their hearts, a place where the sun god is in their hearts. There is light, there is warmth, there is anticipation, there is hope...
Wild lilies are on the prairie, and unlike wildflowers such as the fiery red Sarilang, they have a short flowering period. It blooms only when the sun shines on the earth, and it closes tightly on rainy days and at sunset, like a very shy woman.
It is not too much to say that it is like a mimosa woman, you see it, white flowers, yellow flower hearts, so pure and lovely, small and exquisite standing, and extremely fragile, can't bear to touch it, afraid that it will break off ——
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