Mingshan Yueya Spring
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the crescent spring scenic spot in Mingsha Mountain. Mingshan Crescent Spring is located 5 kilometers south of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, with an area of 310.2 million square kilometers, including Mingsha Mountain. It is more than 40 kilometers long from east to west, 20 kilometers wide from north to south, and the main peak is 17 15 meters above sea level.
The main attractions are Crescent Moon Spring and Mingsha Mountain. Crescent spring surrounds Mingsha Mountain, which looks like a crescent moon, hence its name. Mingsha Mountain is named after the sound of sand. Mingsha Mountain is made of quicksand, with dividends, yellow, green, white and black.
Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang, Shapotou in Zhongwei County, Ningxia, Xiangshawan in Dalat Banner, Inner Mongolia and Mingsha Mountain in Bakun, Xinjiang are called "Four Mingsha Mountains in China". 1994 Crescent Spring Scenic Area in Mingsha Mountain was named as a national key scenic spot. 20 15, was rated as a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.
Ladies and gentlemen, what we are seeing now is Mingsha Mountain, which was called "Shajiao Mountain" and "Shensha Mountain" in ancient times. Mingsha Mountain is located in the northern foot of Mingsha Mountain in the southern suburbs of Dunhuang City, covering an area of about 200 square kilometers. It starts from the top of Mogao Grottoes in the east and reaches Danghe Reservoir in the west. The whole mountain is made up of fine granular yellow sand.
There are two quirks in Mingsha Mountain: when people slide down from the top of the mountain, the sand under their feet will purr; The footprints left by the people who climbed the sand mountain during the day were completely gone the next day. The Sha Feng of Mingsha Mountain fluctuates, and the mountain is "graceful as a rainbow dragon" and golden as a golden mountain.
Dear friends, what we are seeing now is the crescent spring surrounded by Mingsha Mountain. It is named after its crescent shape. In ancient times, it was called Shajing, and Crescent Spring was also called Yaoquan. It was once rumored to be a lying tile pool, and it was called Crescent Spring in Qing Dynasty. There is a local legend about the formation of Crescent Moon Spring and Mingsha Mountain.
Once upon a time, there was no Mingsha Mountain, no crescent spring, only a screamo temple. One year, on the eighth day of April, the annual Buddha washing festival was held in the temple. Good men and women burn incense and worship Buddha in the temple.
During the Buddhist activity of "sprinkling holy water", the abbot took out a bowl of ancestral holy water from Leiyin Temple and put it in front of the temple. Suddenly, he heard a foreign warlock loudly challenge him to compete with the abbot.
I saw the warlock waving his sword and saying something. At this moment, it's already dark, the wind is blowing hard, and the yellow sand is overwhelming, burying the Lei Yin Temple in the sand.
Strangely, however, the bowl of holy water in front of the temple is safe and sound, and it is still in its original place. The warlock tried his best to fill the bowl with sand, but no matter how big the spell was, there was not a grain of sand in the bowl.
Until a sand mountain was formed around the bowl, the holy water bowl was as safe as ever, and the warlock had no choice but to leave. Just a few steps, suddenly there was a loud J sound. Half a bowl of holy water tilted into a curved spring, and the warlock became a black stone.
It turned out that this bowl of holy water was given to the abbot of Leiyin Temple by Sakyamuni and passed down from generation to generation. It is specially used for people to eliminate diseases and disasters, so it is called "holy water". Because heresy committed a crime and destroyed all beings, the Buddha showed punishment, which led to the bowl falling down and the crescent moon spring taking shape.
Dear tourists, legend is legend after all. According to the scientific explanation of the origin of Crescent Moon Spring, there are the following four kinds.
One is the remnant lake of the ancient river: Crescent Spring is considered as an ancient river near Danghe River. A long time ago, the Danghe River was diverted, and most of the ancient rivers were submerged by quicksand. Only the crescent spring is low-lying, and it gathers into a lake because of the underground undercurrent.
Underground undercurrents constantly replenish the lake.
3. Wind erosion lake: the original wind erosion depression. With the aggravation of wind erosion, when it reaches the depth of groundwater table, a spring lake is formed in the inner bay of crescent dunes. Because the sand mountain around Crescent Spring is high in the south and low in the north, the wind blows into the depression around the mountain from the east, and the sand always rolls up along the ridge and sand surface under the action of the wind, so the sand will not blow into the spring, and the sand mountain always maintains the blade shape of the ridge, forming the wonders of the sand spring.
Fourth, artificial excavation: it is believed that the shapes of crescent spring and half crescent are lifelike, as if they were the result of artificial deliberate decoration. In addition, there is also a record of "CMC" in ancient books, since the well must be called the fruit of human labor.
Dear friends, activities such as sand skiing, camel riding, desert off-road vehicle driving, go-karting, skydiving, paragliding, sand bathing and sand therapy have been carried out in Yueya Spring Scenic Area of Mingsha Mountain. You can choose several projects for your activity. Among them, the most worthwhile experience is riding a camel. At present, there are camel 12 15 and 2 16 households in the scenic spot, and there are more than 400 professional camel trainers engaged in camel transportation services. In addition, off-road vehicles, go-karts, sand skiing, etc. This is also a very popular entertainment. You might as well choose one or two to play with.