What kind of place is the desert? Maybe when you think of the topic of the desert, you can't help but make up the scene of yellow sand and dust, and there may be few people who like this kind of place in the evaluation of the desert, but there are many different terrains on the land we live in, and the desert also occupies a large part of it.
Whether it is the Gobi Desert or other places on the mainland, on such a huge territory of China, there are many desert areas in the northwest, and the desolate situation is the main situation here, but who would have thought that there is a large area of "green" in one of these deserts? Even potatoes and other crops have grown? What is going on?
A special man-made desert - the Mu Us Desert
I don't know if any friends have paid attention to the topography map of the mainland, in this vast country, the trend in the northwest is high, the trend in the southeast is low, and in this case, there are a lot of desert areas in the northwest, but who would have thought that there is a very special situation in these desert areas, that is, the Mu Us Desert.
As one of the largest desert areas in the continent, the perennial wind and sand here are not caused by climate or topography, but because of various natural disasters and man-made destruction, which eventually makes this a "no man's land", but this is not the case in the face of the actual historical situation.
Consulting the historical data, it can be found that in the earliest time (1000 years ago), the Mu Us Desert was not the current scene, but there were a lot of human beings living here, according to the saying at that time, the human beings living here were the Xiongnu, a people in the long history.
The Huns were nomads, and the animals such as cows, sheep and horses appeared most often in the places where the nomads lived, and the main reason for the survival of these animals was the need for water and grassland.
According to the judgment of some professionals, the reason why this place has become like this is also due to man-made damage and some soil erosion.
In the long history, there are many records that show that the Mu Us Desert has suffered a lot of man-made destruction, and some people are really not particular about cultivating here, which slowly makes this a desert with harsh geological conditions and a large area of plant death.
Deserts are not something that can be formed overnight (except for natural deserts), and if the place where you live is in a state of decay and desert, will you think of escaping from it in the first place?
As fewer and fewer people lived here, the geological environment deteriorated even more, and more and more places took on the state of deserts, and over time this "unnatural" desert was located on the map of China, and by the time of the Qing Dynasty it had become a large desert area.
Trying to conquer the desert environment and make the Mu Us Desert an oasis?
With the passage of time, at this time, the mainland began to have other ideas about the Mu Us Desert, that is, to prepare to govern this artificial desert area, because there are also mainland people living here near the Mu Us Desert, and the people here are tortured every time they are in a special environment.
Therefore, the people who live here also hope that the Mu Us Desert can one day become an oasis, and the relevant departments of the mainland are also ready to start to govern here, and the earliest group of people are also the "sand control heroes" in our minds, if it were not for their existence, there would not be the current Mu Us Desert.
At that time, the most famous person in the Mu Us Desert should be Shi Guangyin, because he lived here with his own father since he was very young, and once he was swept away by the wind and sand and looked for many days to find it, probably because of this reason, Shi Guangyin made up his mind to govern this desert.
As Shi Guangyin grew older, he felt more and more that the environment here needed to be improved, and he himself had learned a lot of professional knowledge in this area, and when he was old enough, he resolutely embarked on the road of desert control, and advanced on this road for decades.
You can imagine how much courage and perseverance it takes for a person to manage the local environment in the desert area from the time of youth, day after day, year after year, until his temples have gray hair, and the same is true for his scientific research team, in addition to Shi Guangyin himself.
Fortunately, in the past few decades, Shi Guangyin and his scientific research team have slowly developed a lot of plants and solutions that can survive in the Mu Us Desert, and planted a lot of saplings that can survive here, so that the Mu Us Desert, which was originally full of wind and sand, has some green vitality.
But the development of the hero will always be accompanied by some injuries, in the years when Shi Guangyin governed the Mu Us Desert, his children have left him forever, in the face of such a sad thing Shi Guangyin can only turn his grief and anger into strength, and work harder to deal with the local environmental problems, and he doesn't want anyone else to experience what he has experienced.
In ancient times, there were stories like "Yugong Moves Mountains" and "Dayu Controls the Water", but many people think that Shi Guangyin is the modern version of such a character, and this evaluation is not too much at all, in the process of governing the Mu Us Desert, there are many such existences as Shi Guangyin, but his things are known by more people.
At the time of the quality of the Mu Us Desert, it first occurred in the last century when New China was just founded, and the people at that time were also the most "lovely" group of people, and their spirit is also influencing our young generation all the time, and it can only be said that their existence is a blessing for our country.
With the development of time and the improvement of governance conditions, the Mu Us Desert now not only has green trees, but also people have begun to plant some crops here, among which the most familiar should be potatoes, but have you ever seen the "potato flowers" in the desert?
As the management of the Mu Us Desert became better and better, people successfully planted potatoes here for the first time (2015), and after that, more and more people came to live near the Mu Us Desert, because everyone saw hope that sooner or later this area would be covered with greenery.
But do you know how many potatoes are planted in the Mu Us Desert? The potatoes here can reach a yield of more than 10,000 catties per mu, and such a yield is not inferior in some plain areas.
Indeed, sometimes novels don't dare to write like this, who would have thought that potatoes and other crops could be grown in the desert? These are inseparable from the generations of people who have been fighting sand here, and most of the pictures of the Mu Us Desert today were taken before, because now there is not such a large area of yellow sand all over.
From the perspective of God, the Mu Us Desert is already full of green shade, and with the deepening of governance, sooner or later it will become an oasis in the Mu Us Desert, which is also something that each of us needs to look forward to.
Conclusion
In addition to places like the Mu Us Desert, there are many, many more, and there are also a lot of people who govern these places, such as the vast land of the Great Northwest.
Each and every one of us needs to pay attention to the environmental problems around us, these are the homes we live on!
Bibliography:
1. The original article was published on the official website of Yulin Municipal People's Government, "Beautiful Potato Flowers Bloom in the Mu Us Desert", 2015-08-14
2. Global Network "Mu Us Desert Will "Disappear" from the Territory of Shaanxi"2020-04-23 19:25
3. China Youth Daily client "Mu Usu, they hold down the yellow sand with youth"2023-05-06