Turpan, a "fiery city", is famous in the country for having the lowest altitude, the driest climate, the highest temperature, and the sweetest melons and fruits. The Flame Mountain is the symbol of this "fiery city", the Flame Mountain is 98 kilometers long, 9 kilometers wide from north to south, and the Flame Mountain, shaped like a red dragon, lies in the middle of the Turpan Basin. The Aydin Lake in the South Basin is 154.31 meters below sea level, and the solar energy absorbed in the basin in the summer is not dispersed for a long time, coupled with dry and little rain, the temperature remains high, and the surface near the Flame Mountain is generally around 70 °C during the day, and the highest reaches about 82.3 °C.
Flame Mountain
The terrain of Flame Mountain is complete
Flame Mountain is a short fold in the anterior outflower belt of the southern slope of Bogda Mountain in the eastern part of Tianshan Mountain, formed during the Himalayan orogeny, with an average height of about 500 meters, and the highest peak is near Tuyugou in Shanshan County, with a height of 812 meters. The entire mountain of the Flame Mountain not only has no grass and no birds, but also because it is composed of red sandstone, it appears to be full of fire clouds in the mid-summer sun, and the flames are burned. When Chen Cheng of the Ming Dynasty traveled west through the Flame Mountain, there was a poem: "A piece of green smoke is red, and the flames of the flames want to burn empty." Spring is not half as muddy as summer, who said that the West has Zhu Rong? ”
A mountain of flames reflected in the sunset
Flame Mountain temperature rod
The Flaming Mountain is called "Kyzyltag" (meaning Red Mountain) in Uyghur. There is a folk legend that there was a dragon in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains that did nothing wrong, which caused the local people to suffer greatly, and a Uyghur youth named Hala and Zhuo was ordered to eliminate harm for the people. In the fierce battle with the dragon, the dragon fled west wounded, the youth chased after the wounded, and the blood of the demon and the hero mixed together, staining the entire mountain red. The seven scars on the dragon's body turned into seven ravines, and seven ravines flowed out of seven clear springs, namely today's grape ditch, mutou ditch, Tuyu ditch, Tao'er ditch, Lianmuqin ditch, dry ditch and tree cypress ditch.
Flame Mountain Scenic Area
Statue of the Tang monk and apprentice on the Flame Mountain
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