Notes on Tianshan Scenery
Author: Biye
Friend, have you been to Tianshan? Tianshan is a large mountain range in the northwest border of our motherland, stretching for thousands of miles. , lying between the Junggar Basin and the Tarim Basin, dividing the vast Xinjiang into northern and southern halves. Looking at the Tianshan Mountains from a distance, they are so beautiful. The peaks covered with snow all year round are like the silver crowns of Uyghur girls dancing together. The colorful mountains are like peacocks spreading their tails. , gorgeous and charming.
Tianshan Mountain not only gives people a rare and beautiful feeling, but also gives people an infinite tender feeling. It has abundant water plants and green forests. When it is covered with thin cloud veil, it is as shy as a girl; when it is very brightly illuminated by the sun, it is like the full chest of a young mother. People will love it with two sweet emotions intertwined at the same time, like a baby loving its mother's arms, and like a man snuggling up to his lover.
If you are willing, I will accompany you to Tianshan to have a look.
Snowy peaks·streams·forests
The Gobi Desert in Xinjiang is very hot in July. The ideal time is to ride a horse to the Tianshan Mountains. Yili in the north of Xinjiang and Yanqi in the south both produce excellent horses. Whether they are Kazakh horses in Yili or Mongolian horses in Yanqi, riding them to climb mountains is like walking on a flat river, fast and stable.
When you enter the Tianshan Mountains, the scorching heat of the Gobi Desert is left far behind. The cold air from the snow-capped mountains hits you and will immediately make you feel as cool as autumn. The blue sky is set against the towering huge snow peaks. Under the sun, a few white clouds cast cloud shadows between the snow peaks, like a few silver-gray dark flowers embroidered on the white satin. The melted snow water flows down from the high mountain streams and cliffs, like thousands of shining silver chains. The falling snow water merges into a rushing stream at the foot of the mountain, and the waves are thrown upward, forming thousands of white lotuses in full bloom. But every time we reach a migratory eddy where the water is slow, there are fish jumping. At this time, sitting on the saddle by the Yinma Stream, you can look down at the clear water bottom where the sunlight shines through. Among the colorful water rocks, the shining scales of fish reflect the clear snowy water, giving the silent Tianshan Added infinite vitality.
Going further in, the Tianshan Mountains become more and more beautiful. Along the snow line of the white-capped peaks, there is an endless stretch of green primeval forest. The dense Tasong pines are like giant umbrellas holding up the sky. The overlapping branches only reveal the scattered shadows of the sun. When riding a horse through the forest, you can only hear the sound of water splashing on the rocks by the horse's hooves, which adds to the tranquility of the dense forest. In the depths of this forest sea, even birds rarely fly, and only a few distant bird songs can be heard occasionally. At this time, if you dismount and sit on a rock to smoke and rest, although the sun is shining brightly outside the forest, the red light of your cigarette butt is shining in the dense forest that blocks the sun. Judging from the two charred dead trees discovered by chance, it seems that hard-working hunters may have come here. They made a fire and camped in the middle of the night, roasting the hunted game. There are herds of wild sheep, grass deer, bison and wild camels in the mountains today.
If it feels like autumn when you enter Tianshan Mountain, then it will feel like spring further inside. The color of the mountain gradually becomes softer, and the shape of the mountain gradually becomes softer. It feels like you can touch tender fat with your hand. The stream here is slow, lingering around the foot of every mountain. On both sides of the gently rippling stream, there are wild flowers that are taller than a horse's head. They are red, yellow, blue, white and purple. They are colorful and stretch like an endless tapestry. The colorful clouds on the horizon are so dazzling, as gorgeous as the rainbow in the sky. These densely packed wildflowers are tens of feet tall, with flowers as big as an eight-inch agate plate and petals as big as a palm. Horses walking in the sea of ??flowers look particularly vigorous, and people floating on the sea of ??flowers also look particularly energetic. You don't have to leave the saddle on a horse, you just need to stretch your hand a little and you can hold your most beloved big flowers in your arms.
Although it is not spring in Tianshan at this time, what spring garden can compare with the boundless flowers in Tianshan at this time?
Charming summer pasture
< p>Surrounded by snowy peaks, a beautiful thousand-mile pasture appears before your eyes. The dark green primeval forest and bright wild flowers add a double richness to this vast pasture. Green butter grass grows on Qianli Pasture, and the clear stream flows through the grass on both sides. The grassland is so boundless and flat, like a calm ocean. Under the sun, the blister-like yurts were shining with white light.When you are galloping on this thousand-mile grassland, you can see thousands of fat flocks of sheep, horses and cattle everywhere. They ate the butter grass that contains milk, and their fur was extremely shiny, as if there were stars of oil on the tip of each hair. Especially those cattle, oxen, white sheep, and red sheep that are clearly set off by the green grassland are as beautiful as colorful patterns embroidered on green satin in the sun.
Sometimes, the wind brings a tinkling sound like silver bells from the middle of the herds. It is the silver ornaments of the Kazakh shepherd girls that are full of clothes, ringing in the wind. The shepherdesses are riding horses, and their graceful figures are set against the blue sky, snow-capped mountains and green grass, which makes them look very moving. They laughed and galloped along with the horses, and whenever they stopped, they would sing their love on horseback, waving their whips gently.
This Tianshan Qianli Pasture, surrounded by snow peaks, green forests, and flowers, although it gives people a low-level feeling, is located at an altitude of more than two to three thousand meters.
Whenever a dark cloud comes, the cloud feet always sweep over the grassland and sprinkle showers of rain. The herds appear and disappear in the rain clouds, which intensifies the clouds and makes it difficult to distinguish which is the cloud head and which is the herd. And when the showers passed, the grassland after the rain became fresher and greener. From a distance, it looked like a huge sapphire. From a close look, the water droplets on the grass tips looked like countless diamonds.
What is particularly attractive is the dusk in the pasture. The surrounding snow peaks are reflected red by the setting sun, as brilliant as clouds; the red light of the snow peaks is reflected on the vast pasture, forming a magnificent world, a yurt. , the herds and the shepherdesses are all coated in a rose-red color. When the setting sun sinks and the red light of the surrounding snow peaks gradually fades, and the silvery gray dusk covers the grassland, you can see countless red firelights, which are the herdsmen burning copper pots to prepare dinner.
You don’t have to be polite, any yurt is your warm home. As long as you walk towards the light of the fire, no matter which yurt you enter, the hospitable Kazakh herdsmen will treat you like brothers. We welcome you warmly. If you are thirsty, you can drink a bowl of mare's milk first. If you are hungry, there are grilled lamb chops, yogurt pimples, and butter cakes. You can drink and chew as passionately as the Kazakh herdsmen.
When the bison dung under the hanging pot tripod of the yurt is only a pile of red embers, the night wind will bring the sound of tambula strings and the melodious and loud singing of the Kazakh shepherd girls. This is the last happy moment of the day when eight herdsmen from ten families gather together in a relatively large yurt to celebrate the day.
Afterwards, the entire grassland was immersed in the stillness of night. If you put on a fur coat and walk into the yurt at this time, under the moonlight or stars, you can dimly see the herds wandering gently on the night grassland. The night grassland is so quiet and peaceful, with only the flowing water. The sound of the stream makes you think about nature.