Fish watching Pavilion

Fish watching Pavilion

Huangshan fish Pavilion fish Pavilion, pavilion name. Located in Huangshan Scenic Spot hot spring Tangquan river. It was built in 1958. There is a rockery in the pool in front of the pavilion. The spring water comes from the pipe in the rockery and the fish are raised in the pool. After the heavy rain, the torrent of Tangquan river is surging, which is very spectacular. The fish Pavilion of Kanas Lake is built on the top of halakat (Mongolian meaning camel peak) at an altitude of 2030 meters, with a vertical drop of more than 600 meters from the surface of the lake. Because it is in the best position to observe the "strange Lake", it is named fish Pavilion.

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geographical environment

Located in aketao County, Xinjiang Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, it is one of the peaks of Kunlun Mountain, with an altitude of 7719 meters. The top of the mountain is covered with snow all the year round, and there are glittering silver glaciers hanging in the mountains, which is very spectacular. Gongge'er Jiubie peak, 7530 meters above sea level, is located at 75.1 degrees east longitude and 38.6 degrees north latitude. The two peaks are on the ridge line at the western end of the West Kunlun Mountains, with a straight-line distance of only 15 kilometers. They are connected by mountains. They are a pair of sister peaks. They are located in aketao County, Xinjiang. They live in the West Kunlun Mountains with the moustage mountain to the south, and are known as the three famous peaks of the East Pamir Plateau.

Gongge'er mountain is the highest peak in the West Kunlun Mountains. The peak is pyramid shaped and steep with an average slope of about 45 degrees. The peak is mainly composed of four main ridges: North Ridge, west ridge, South Ridge and east ridge. The snow on the hillside is deep and there is an avalanche area with a height difference of about 300 meters.

The East Pamir Plateau, where the two peaks are located, is inland, and there are many mountains blocking the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean airflow. Therefore, the climate is very dry, and the precipitation mainly comes from the interaction of the upper westerly belt airflow and the polar cold wet airflow. At an altitude of about 7500 meters, the average temperature is - 20 ℃, the lowest is - 30 ℃, and the maximum wind force is 9-ll, usually about 7. Frequent changes in the weather is a major feature of this area, even in summer, the mountains may also be snowy, the temperature can drop to - 20 ℃. Generally, mountaineering activities should be arranged from June to August.

geographical position

Kanas is Mongolian, which means "beautiful, rich and mysterious". It is located in the north of Buerjin County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 150 kilometers away from the county. It is a high mountain lake in the deep mountains and dense forests of Altay. Around the lake, there are dense primeval forests, and the sunny slope is covered by dense grass. The lake water comes from the glacial melt water of Kuitun, youyifeng and other mountains and the local precipitation, which flows into Kanas Lake from the surface or underground. The lake is 1374 meters above sea level and covers an area of 44.78 square kilometers. The deepest part of the lake is about 180 meters. It is the only Siberian flora and fauna reserve in China. Here, Kanas Lake natural landscape reserve is established with the lake as the center. With a total area of 5588 square kilometers, the nature reserve is vertically distributed from top to bottom, including glacier constant snow zone, mountain frozen snow zone, alpine meadow zone, mountain grassland zone, etc.

Animals and plants

When we talk about Kanas Scenic Spot, we have to mention many unique features: it is the only Swiss scenery in Asia, the only nature reserve bordering on the four countries in China, and the birthplace of the Burqin River, the largest tributary of the Ertis River, the only Arctic water system in China. Kanas Lake is also the only flora and fauna distribution area of South Siberia in China. There are many rare species such as Larix gmelinii, Korean pine, spruce, fir and many birch forests in Siberia. Animals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, as well as fish and insects, live here, and enjoy life.

Kanas Lake is an extremely rare area with European ecosystem in China. There are 798 species of plants in the reserve, including 30 species of rare plants, 39 species of animals, 117 species of birds and 7 species of fish. Among them, there are 5 species of first-class protected animals, 13 species of second-class protected animals, 9 species of other rare animals, and 60 new species of insect fungi.

Lakeside residents

Tuwa people, also known as "Tuwa", "dewa" and "kukumenqiak", have a long history and have been recorded as early as in ancient literature. Some scholars believe that the Tuwa people are part of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers left by Genghis Khan during the western expedition, and have gradually multiplied to this day. The middle-aged elders in Kanas village say that their ancestors migrated from Siberia 500 years ago and belong to the same ethnic group as the Tuva people in Russia's Tuva Republic. Tuwa people keep their own unique living habits and language. Tuwa language belongs to the Turkic family of Altaic language family, which is similar to Kazakh language. In terms of living habits, in addition to celebrating the traditional Mongolian OBO Festival, Tuwa people also celebrate the zoulu Festival (Winter Festival), the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month of the Han nationality. Tuwa people believe in Buddhism, and the funeral method is cursive. Tuwa people live in Tuwa village of Kanas Lake in Altay and Tuwa village of baihaba. Kanas Lake and Tuwa people reflect and integrate with each other, which constitutes the unique charm of Kanas Lake tourism area.

Four wonders

Kilometer long dry wood dike

At the entrance of the northernmost part of Kanas Lake, there is a kilometer long dry wood dike, which is one of the wonders of Kanas Lake. In case of flood, the long dyke of dead trees will float up. In principle, these dead trees will float down. But for many years, they have been floating strangely upstream, and they have been long listed in six bays of Kanas Lake. It is said that someone threw the dead wood into the lower five bays, but the dead wood still persisted in returning to the old place and connected with the dead wood levee. Why? Every flood season, the river carries a large number of dead trees into the lake mouth. Later, due to the strong valley wind, after encountering the huge mountain in the south of Kanas, the wind changes direction and pushes the floating trees into the lake to float upstream. Over time, they gradually gather and stack in the lake mouth, forming a crisscross river with dead trees more than 100 meters wide and 2000 meters long As a special natural landscape, the "kilometer long dyke of dead trees" floats with the rise and fall of water.

Lake Monster

Another wonder of Kanas Lake is the giant "Lake Monster" in the lake. According to the legend of the map tile people, there are huge monsters in Kanas lake, which can spray clouds and often swallow cattle and sheep on the shore. From the top of the mountain, a large number of tourists and scientific explorers have observed giant fish and black objects with the length of tens of meters swimming slowly in the lake in groups, making waves and waves. All of a sudden, they spread the "Lake Monster" to a great extent, which adds some mysterious color to the beautiful Kanas Lake.

In late July 1985, when Xiang Lixin, a professor of zoology at Xinjiang University, was working at the lake, he suddenly found dozens of giant fish on the lake. Two days later, Yuan Guoying's team from Xinjiang Institute of environmental science also observed the giant fish in the lake at the "view Pavilion", and took many photos and a video, thus starting the "Lake Monster" of Kanas Lake ”A study of the mystery of the universe.

The mystery of Kanas Lake is probably related to the legend of lake monster. According to the investigation and inference of some experts, the so-called lake monsters are actually big red fish that like to move in groups. This is a kind of "longevity fish" growing in the deep cold lake water. Its longest life span can reach more than 200 years old, and its whereabouts are mysterious. It is difficult for inexperienced people to catch it. The local Tuva people don't believe this. In their legend, the lake monster can eat a whole cow. But no one can tell exactly what the lake monster looks like. Their predecessors also made two attempts to capture lake monsters, but both failed. So far, the Tuva people have not been fishing in the lake or herding by the lake.

It is still a mystery whether the "Lake Monster" and the big red fish (hucho taimen) are the same thing.

There are many rare fishes in Kanas Lake, such as hucho hucho, salmonid, COD, Acipenser altaicus, Siberian bream and so on. In particular, the famous Zhero salmon, whose body length can reach 2-3m and weight can reach several hundred kilograms, is commonly known as big red fish because of its light red body. The great redfish is a typical freshwater cold water carnivorous fish with fierce temperament. Two wild ducks were found in the belly of 6 kg. This kind of fish can grow very big. In 1984, a big red fish weighing 38 kg was caught. Such large fish exist in high latitude alpine lakes, which is rare in the world. The discovery of giant fish in Kanas Lake has attracted the attention of scientists engaged in fish research at home and abroad, and also aroused people's great interest.

The sea of clouds and the light of Buddha

In the morning, when you climb to the top of the mountain, the fish Pavilion, and watch the sunrise, you can see the sea of clouds churning over Kanas, the fog rising into the sky, and sometimes you can see the wonders like the sea of clouds and Buddha light on Mount Emei. Abundant precipitation and cool climate make Kanas Lake area often shrouded in hazy fog and hail, and the peaks above the top of the clouds become an ideal place to watch the Buddha light.

In August, every morning after the rain, the valley of Kanas mountain area is often covered by thick clouds and fog, and only one peak more than 2000 meters is exposed. At this time, if you go to the "view Pavilion" to enjoy the sunrise scenery, you can see a huge sunrise hanging obliquely in the blue sky above your head, far and near the snow peak, reflecting a red light under the sunrise. At the foot of the white sea of clouds, waves like to roll with the wind, sometimes showing a flat blue lake like a mirror, sometimes showing a piece of green forest. The oncoming colored clouds, with the reflection of the sun's rays, are in various forms and changing

Chinese PinYin : Guan Yu Ting