Wuerhe ghost city

Ghost city

synonym

Wuerhe ghost city generally refers to the ghost city

Ghost city is also known as Wuerhe wind city. Wuerhe mining area is located in the lower reaches of Jiamu River on the northwest edge of Junggar Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 100 km southwest of Karamay City. There is a unique wind erosion landform with strange shape. The Mongolian called this city "sulumhuk".

Uighur people call it "shayitankersi", which means ghost city. In fact, this is a typical Yadan landform area. "Yadan" means "hill on steep wall" in Uyghur language. Yadan landform is named after the most typical Yadan area near Lop Nor, Tarim Basin, Xinjiang. It is a wind erosion landform type formed in arid and windy environment.

Ghost city is northwest, east-west trend, length and width of more than 5 kilometers, a radius of about 10 square kilometers, the ground elevation of about 350 meters. According to the investigation, it was a huge fresh water lake in the Cretaceous period about 100 million years ago. Lush plants grew on the shore of the lake. Stegosaurus Wuerhe, Plesiosaurus, dinosaurs, pterosaurs of Junggar and others lived and multiplied in the water

Ancient animals, here is a "paradise" where aquatic people gather. Later, after two major crustal movements, the lake became a vast land sea intercalated with sandstone and slate. Geologically, it is called "Gobi platform". On April 13, 2018, he was shortlisted for the "magic northwest 100 scenes".

legend

There is a magical legend about ghost city. It's said that it turned out to be a magnificent castle. The men in the castle are handsome and strong, and the women in the castle are beautiful and kind. The people in the castle work hard and live a carefree life. However, with the accumulation of wealth, evil gradually occupied people's hearts. They began to indulge in playing and drinking. In order to fight for wealth, the city was full of intrigues and bloody fights, and everyone's face became ferocious and terrifying. In order to arouse people's conscience, the God came to the castle as a ragged beggar. God told people that it was evil that made him become a beggar from a rich man. However, the beggar's words didn't work. Instead, they were insulted and ridiculed by the people in the castle. In a rage, the God turned this place into ruins, and all the people in the castle were crushed under the ruins. Every night, the dead cry in the castle, hoping that the gods can hear the voice of their repentance.

Spectacle

Wuerhe windy city can be seen from afar, but can't be played. From a distance, you will admire its magnificence, magnificence and the uncanny workmanship of nature. When you go deep into the Windy City, you will feel its extraordinary terror. Surrounded by many grotesque mounds, four stories high, the side wall of the mound is steep. From the section of the side wall, we can clearly see the principle of deposition. The foot is full of dry loess, and there is no grass on the loess. All around is dead. If you come here alone, you need to pinch your face with your hands, otherwise you won't believe what you see in front of you It's all true. Even if there is no strong wind at night, people will tremble because of fear.

The hills have been blown into various "buildings" by the wind. Some are like the Liuhe tower on the Bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, some are like the temple of heaven in Beijing, some are like the pyramids in Egypt, and some are like the pagodas of heaven

At Angkor Wat in Cambodia, some of them spread their wings like eagles. Because of the unique scenery here, many movies use ghost city as their location, such as the Oscar winning film Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon. More and more tourists come to Xinjiang for tourism and exploration.

The landform was selected as the first of "China's three most beautiful yadans" by the "beauty China" campaign of National Geographic of China.

Because it is located in the tuyere, the devil city has strong winds all the year round, and the maximum wind can reach 10-12 levels. The strong northwest wind gives the devil city its "name" and makes it have the devil's "shape" and become strange. Overlooking the Windy City, it is like a big castle in medieval Europe. There are many castles, big and small, high and low. For millions of years, due to the erosion of wind and rain, the ground has formed gullies of different depths, and the exposed stone layers have been carved into strange shapes by the strong wind: some grin like monsters; some dangerous platforms are towering, with distinct butterfly stacks, like castles; here, like pavilions, with the eaves on top; there, like grand palaces, stand upright. It's a lot of different, and it's very imaginative. On the undulating hillside, there are stones of various colors, such as blood red, blue, white and orange, which are just like the pearls of a witch and add some mysterious color. Fengcheng is located in the tuyere. Whenever the wind blows, the sand flies, the sky is dim and the earth is dark. The arrow like air flows around the stone masons, making sharp sounds, such as the howling of wolves, the howling of tigers, and the crying of ghosts. On a moonlit night, the situation is even more terrifying.

The devil City area is also rich in natural asphalt and deep underground oil.

In addition to the above-mentioned Wuerhe ghost city, there is Qitai ghost city in Xinjiang, which is located in the northwest of Qitai County. Starting from the county, walk 90km along the road leading to Beishan coal mine, pass the border station, then walk 3km, then turn into the access road to Qinghe, about 60km, then enter Jiangjun Gobi, and then walk 50km. It covers an area of 84 square kilometers and is mainly composed of "young adults" Yadan group.

In addition, there are two ghost cities

One is located in the north of Qitai general Gobi, and the other is the colorful city in the north of jimusar.

Environmental Science

About 110 kilometers away from Qitai County in the north, there is a magnificent and magnificent wind erosion landscape formed by long-term wind erosion. It is known as the ghost city. Under the long-term effect of nature, it forms a dense and scattered sandstone strange shape. When you look up, it looks like a castle towering in the Gobi desert. The castle is like pavilions, city corridors and streets, and Luocha palace. On the west side of the city gate, there are "stone monkeys looking at the sea". In the city, there are "Mount Fuji", the "Angkor Wat", the magnificent "Potala Palace" and the shapes like Cobra and Mirs. All kinds of scenes can be described as various and colorful, forming a dream like maze world, "Potala Palace", "Angkor Grottoes", "Roman Colosseum", "Mount Fuji", "Lunan Stone Forest"... There are all kinds of famous mountains at all times and in all over the world; what "stone monkey watching the sea", "cattle farming", "master lying down", "little monkey wagging his tail", "Mirs spreading his wings"... There are all kinds of beautiful landscapes, Being in the devil's city will give full play to your image thinking.

History and culture

In all kinds of pictures and video materials, we go back to 2 million years ago and get a glimpse of what "ghost city" looked like when it was young. It's hard to imagine that it used to be a big lake. The evolution process is as follows:

In the early Pleistocene (248-733 million years ago), the climate of the ancient Dunhuang basin was cold and humid, and the floods in the southern mountainous area carried a large amount of mud and sand materials into the basin, forming the glutenite. There were no humans back then.

In the Middle Pleistocene, the climate was humid and rainy with abundant water. Formed a vast Lop Nur - a large lake. In the bottom of the lake, the fresh water lacustrine sediments formed in the interaction of grayish brown and grayish green sand layer and clay layer.

At the end of Middle Pleistocene, the climate became hot and dry. The lake area gradually shrinks, most of them tend to dry up, and the basin sedimentation was interrupted for a time.

In the late Pleistocene between 20-12000 years ago. The basin uplifted slowly, the climate became more arid, and large areas of lacustrine strata were exposed. The climate of this period is close to that of other periods.

In the Holocene since 12000 years ago, the original flat basin was eroded and eroded slowly under the action of flood and strong wind. Wind and flowing water can take away loose sand layer, but have limited effect on hard mudstone layer and gypsum cemented layer. However, the dense mudstone layer is not indestructible. The expansion and contraction effect caused by the drastic change of temperature difference in the desert area leads to the final disintegration of the mudstone layer, and the exposed sand layer is carried away by wind and water, and evolves into a groove shape. The part covered by the mudstone layer is still relatively stable, forming long or small strip-shaped mounds, which gradually highlights this peculiar landform.

Distribution of scenic spots

The main development zones of the scenic spots are arranged with nine distinctive canyons, namely lover's Valley, snake's Valley, broken bridge's Valley, heartless Valley, Jiuqu ileum's Valley, Xianhe's Valley, enchanting Valley, Shenying's Valley and Falcon's valley. They are strange, dangerous, secluded and beautiful everywhere. Broken bridge Valley, there is a bridge in the valley, there is a valley in the bridge, the bridge seems to be broken, across the canyon; Shenying Valley, Eagle circling, dangerous still alive; enchanting Valley, the wind from the ancient road, complicated; Jiuqu ileum Valley, deep and stirring.

Hami Wubao

Ghost city is located in the south of Wubao Township in Hami City, 20km away from Wubao Township and 100km away from Hami City. Because it is mysterious and unpredictable, people who are not familiar with the terrain are in danger of losing their way in case of a storm. The Yadan landform in Hami City starts from camel peak outside Yandun in the East, passes through Yamansu iron mine, Dananhu coal mine and reaches thirteen rooms of Wubao Shah lake, about 400km in length and 5-10km in width. It is a special city in Hami City Special geographical environment, it is formed after a long wind erosion. In the ghost city, you can see the castles, temples, pagodas, steles, figures and animals

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