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"Kasa Ong Column" Iwu Poplar Tree

author:First Agricultural Machinery Review

People with long lives, but only a hundred years, rich in the world, but golden ytterbium. What can't be opened, what can't be put down?

Hamida? It's quite big! With an area of more than 140,000 square kilometers, it is larger than Anhui Province.

Is Hami small? It's quite small! It only has jurisdiction over one district and two counties, with a total population of more than 600,000, which is not as good as a small county in the interior. And most of these people live in Yizhou District, where the municipal government is located, and there are more than 100,000 people in the two counties under the jurisdiction of Barikun and only 19,000 in Yiwu County!

How long is hami city? Soon, in 2016, the office was withdrawn to establish a city, but it was only 5 years.

"Kasa Ong Column" Iwu Poplar Tree

But if you follow the footsteps of history, it's a long time. The last stop in the Hexi Corridor from the interior is called Yangguan, "West Out of Yangguan without a Reason", and then the first stop is Hami. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, in order to unite with the Western Regions great power Yue Shi (pronounced "meat branch"), was detained by the Xiongnu before he reached the local area, for a period of 10 years, shorter than Su Wu's 19 years, but longer than Meng Wanzhou. What they have in common is that they never give in until they return to their hometown.

Hami was one of the most important stations on the ancient Silk Road. It has played a major role in the exchange of culture and science and technology between China and the West. Most of the crops with "hu" and "fan" that we eat today were introduced to the interior from the western region through Hami, such as sweet potatoes, flax, pepper, tomatoes, melons and so on.

In modern times, Hami is an important intermediate station on the Lanxin Railway and the Lianhuo Highway. It was only after the opening of regional routes across Xinjiang that Hami's geographical status declined slightly.

Most of us know that hami should be a cantaloupe. In fact, cantaloupe is not unique to Hamilton, it is produced throughout Xinjiang, and when King Hami paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, it was named after the Kangxi Golden Mouth Jade Saying. In 1988, I went to Aral and heard that the best cantaloupe was produced by Jiashi, but the skin of Jiashi melon was thin and difficult to transport, and it was difficult to eat in the interior.

"Kasa Ong Column" Iwu Poplar Tree

Hami City across the two foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the seat of the city seat of Yizhou District in the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the climate is relatively humid, we turned over the Tianshan Mountains to Yiwu County to see the poplar forest, the ruler of the thick snow sealed the mountain, it is said that there are several locals who went to pick up stones because they got lost and disappeared, the news of the day The local government is still organizing personnel to look for it.

After crossing the Tianshan Mountains, the scenery is very different, and the two sides of the highway are the boundless Gobi, which is extremely desolate, and the annual rainfall is only 30 mm. When I was about to arrive at the county seat of Iwu, the driver said a smooth sentence: "It looks like a village from a distance, and it is a shop when you look close, and when you ask, you know that you have arrived in Iwu County." ”

"Kasa Ong Column" Iwu Poplar Tree

The Iwu Poplar Forest is only about 20 kilometers away from the border between China and Mongolia, and you need a border pass to get there. Although there is no colorful and shocking poplar forest in Ejin, the distribution area is larger, the sense of history is stronger, and it has more connotation. We saw poplar trees from 1,000, 3,000, 6,000, 9,000, 10,000 years yesterday! In the square near the 6000 district, a group of Uighur friends are singing and dancing, and they are happy.

"Kasa Ong Column" Iwu Poplar Tree

How long is 10,000 years? Hemudu rice cultivation civilization is about 7,000 years old, King Wu has been cutting for more than 3,000 years, Confucius has preached and taught for more than 2,500 years, the Chimei Uprising is the first year of the Western calendar, when the Western saints landed in the stables, the Battle of Chibi was 1800, the Second Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty was captured for 1,000 years, and the Eight-Nation Alliance was 120 years... These poplars have witnessed almost all the vicissitudes of human society, the vicissitudes of the sea and the progress of human civilization.

People with long lives, but only a hundred years, rich in the world, but golden ytterbium. What can't be opened, what can't be put down? "Where will the emperor be now", "Ten thousand households in the dung soil"! Whether it is a genius, an ordinary man, or a poplar, the earth's circle around the sun is 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds. The Way of Heaven is constant, and it does not exist because of Yao, nor does it perish. In order for human beings to be sustainable, they must first adapt to nature and make limited changes on this basis.

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