Great South Lake, Shar Lake, Naomao Lake, Santang Lake... Through the time and space of that billions of years, here buried a distant prehistoric civilization world.
(Wu Jing Photography)
✦ About 400 million years ago, this was a sea of turquoise waves, the cradle of life.
✦ About 150 million years later, the ancient Tianshan Mountains rose and the sea gradually receded.
✦ During the Jurassic period, which dates back to about 140 million years ago, it was densely forested, full of lakes and marshes, and dinosaurs flourished and flourished.
✦ The Himalayan orogeny that broke out 30 million years ago turned the area from a lake basin into a mountain closed basin.
The warm and humid air flow from the ocean is cut off, the climate is dry, the sediment is deposited, and the shadow of the sea and the lake can no longer be found, and it has become an ancient Gobi. A large number of marine and continental stratigraphic paleontological fossils have become a witness to the geological vicissitudes and species derivation of hundreds of millions of years.
Balikun Lake
Bali Kun Lake, known as "Pu Hai" in ancient times, has been recorded in the Han Dynasty, and the locals call it "Haizi".
The Qing Dynasty poet Shi Shanchang once wrote a poem praising: "The dissolving waves of the Qing Dynasty are dissolved, the ancient reed scales are not seen, the bronze is milled for hundreds of miles on Wednesday, and the thousands of years of Chengpi practice" have a unique spectacle of "obscuring the mirage city and covering the mountains".
There are red "spirits" in the lake, brine worms. Its periphery, puddles of water, reeds, lush grass ... What is it like to see the most beautiful sunset over Highland Lake at the Ranch of the Mind?
Lake of Radiance
Huancai Lake, Uyghur name turkule, means quiet lake, with tranquility to describe the Turkule Lake area is more appropriate, here only the breeze birdsong, leisurely lake water.
Turkule Lake is not large, but the "face-changing" stunt is unique, changing different colors with the change of seasons and weather changes, and the lake is rich in stone salt.
Gaojia Lake
Gaojia Lake, a natural village in Shirenzi Township, Balikun County, where people used to call the grassland wetland Grass Lake.
Local residents drive cattle and sheep to graze in the morning and evening, plough the fields and fish at noon, the green grass is flourishing on the grassland, and the fish in the pond are dancing and birds are singing;
As the sun sets, the village is filled with cooking smoke, cattle grazing on the embankment are hissing, and the idyllic scenery of half water and half grass is all in sight.
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