Nowadays, people's travel, in addition to feasting their eyes and pursuing the beauty of the landscape, pays more attention to an experience and feeling, and sometimes even pursues excitement for the experience of the ultimate.
No, Harbin has been on fire recently! In the cold winter, Layue specially runs into the ice and snow, which is not only to appreciate the beautiful ice sculpture art, but also to feel the extremely cold life.
The author had a whim, the northeast can also be the northwest; Heilongjiang is charming, and Xinjiang is not bad.
Of course, this is not advocating the east's imitation, although Xinjiang is also a high-latitude region, but not all of them are cold.
The vast Xinjiang, in addition to the ice and snow, the snowy plateau; There is also a scorching sun, and the heat is unbearable. If below sea level 154Turpan, which is 31 meters, is the lowest place in China and the highest temperature in summer in China.
The Flaming Mountain described in this article is not Chishi Mountain in Gaochang District, Turpan City, Xinjiang, where the temperature can reach up to 47 in summer8 The "Red Mountain" (called "Kiziltag" in Uyghur language), although it is described as a raging fire in the "Journey to the West", is actually just a fake flame mountain, it is just a russet mountain, under the scorching sun, the sandstone is scorching and shining, the shape is like a raging flame, coupled with the hot air flow tumbling up, the ground temperature is extremely high.
The real Flaming Mountain is really burning with a raging fire, and the Flaming Mountain is not a volcano, not a burst of magma underground, but a layer of coal burning.
Although this flaming mountain is also in Xinjiang, it is not in Turpan, and 40 kilometers west of Urumqi City, the town of Sulfur Gou in Changji City, is really called Sulfur Ditch Coalfield Fire District.
How big is this "Flaming Mountain"? With a total area of 1.83 million square meters, it is not a mountain, but includes 18 sub-fire areas, and burns about 1.76 million tons of coal every year! The direct economic loss is up to 1700 million yuan!
How long did the fire burn? Exactly 129 years! It is understood that the fire was first burned in 1874 in Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), because a large amount of gas accumulated in the underground goaf area, which caused the mine to burn, and then the ground fire spread.
The black smoke covers the sky and the sun, countless tongues of fire spread underground, and the entire coal mining area is shrouded in fire and smoke all year round, and the coal seam burns to produce a large amount of sulfur, from which the sulfur ditch is named.
In order to control this "flame mountain", many fire-fighting operations have been organized in previous sessions. However, due to the complex geological structure, each operation ended in failure.
In 1999, the state invested nearly 100 million yuan to launch a fire-fighting project again.
On the basis of conscientiously summarizing the lessons of the past, a five-step fire extinguishing plan was formulated
First, after extinguishing the fire, the fire area was leveled with a large bulldozer; Then, large-scale irrigation is carried out in the leveled fire area to reduce the surface temperature; Then, the drilling rig is used to drill holes for the underground ignition point, and then the special mud is used to close the coal seam after water injection and cooling, and after blocking the wide supply of underground oxygen, a ditch is dug around the fire area to prevent the underground water source from supplying the fire area, and finally, the entire surface of the fire area is covered with a thick layer of loess to form a thermal insulation layer to trap the residual heat.
After four years of firefighting, more than 1,000 firefighters fought for more than 1,000 days and nights, and in 2003, the last ignition was completely extinguished, and the 129-year-old fire was completely extinguished.
According to statistics, a total of 27 drilling rigs were used to block 378 mines, 13 kilometers of fire-blocking ditches were excavated, and 2.79 million tons of water were used in the entire firefighting operation.
Over the past 100 years, the Flame Mountain has been lit with blazing fires, the smell of sulfur filling, and a large number of harmful gases and dusts have been released.
The mountain peaks are roasted red, the vegetation is lost, the animals are abandoned, and the dark river is surging in the ravines. Desolate and miserable, full of devastation, it is simply a "purgatory on earth".
After the coal fire was extinguished, everything changed dramatically.
Another decade passed, and the red sulfur minerals formed by years of burning covered the surrounding mountains, and from a distance, the entire mountain peak still burned like a fire, but there was no thick smoke or blazing heat.
Green grass and small trees sprout in the valleys of the mountain streams, and brown stones and regrowing green vegetation are intertwined to create new and brilliant colors.
In the early morning, the mist is shrouded, the birds hover in the air, the earth is rejuvenated, and a hundred flowers bloom. The sulfur ditch in the aftermath of the catastrophe has both traces of the "Flame Mountain" and the beautiful scenery of birds singing and flowers. It is like a landscape painting scroll hanging between heaven and earth.
Now if you go to ** travel and watch, check in and take pictures, you will definitely have a different feeling.
This was once the largest coalfield fire area in China, with a long burning time, serious coal loss and the most serious environmental pollution.
Now that the Flame Mountain has been reborn from the baptism of burning to the rebirth of vitality, in the face of its new appearance of returning to the embrace of nature, you will suddenly realize that you will admire the miracle of the world created by extinguishing the fire, and feel the charm of nature.
The vicissitudes of the sulphur ditch make us reflect: how to deal with the relationship between man and nature, how to live in harmony with nature, how to make rational use of resources, and how to protect the environment.
Of course, from the perspective of tourism development, the landscape still needs to be further developed, especially the service must keep up. In addition to the attractive ice sculpture landscape and northern style, the tourism fever of Harbin also benefits from the high-quality services provided here, and the best performance of the hospitality, sincerity and kindness of the local people.
In the season of flowing fire in July, let's meet again in the Flaming Mountain in Xinjiang, and hope that the lost temperature of the Flaming Mountain will reside in the hearts of tourists.
Heartwarming is the most pleasant experience!