We continued to ride the tall camel, all the way non-stop in the desert yellow sand to the front, suddenly we were all stunned, stunned, stunned, attracted by the spectacular scenery in front of us, only to see the scorching sun, the scorching sun like fire, and the dream-like color of the russet mainly by the Mesozoic Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary red sand, The conglomerate and mudstone mountain is scorched and flashed red under the scorching sun, and those hot air currents tumble upward, like a blazing flame, tongue of fire in the sky, and the locals call it Kiziltag, which means red mountain.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was called Chishi Mountain. The Tang people used to be called a volcano for its heat. Now it is called the Flame Mountain, only to see the Flame Mountain mountain ravines and ravines, twists and turns, not a single inch of grass.

The bare surface can reach a temperature of fifty or sixty degrees under the sun's baking, and the heat wave rolls over, making people breathless.

Due to the relatively horizontal accumulation of strata and the alternating soft and hard rock strata, under the erosion of annual rainwater, thousands of ravines are formed along the slope.

The material eroded by the mountain forms a red alluvial fan skirt in front of the foothills, and the front edge of the fan skirt forms countless earth-red polygonal cracks under the magic of the arid environment, which is particularly eye-catching, unique and unique.

The mountains are stacked and undulating, criss-crossed, winding folds, under the direct sunlight, the heat waves are rolling, the clouds are shrouded, and the ochre-red peaks are like raging flames burning, so the flame mountain is also called the flying fire dragon.

And it is said that this flaming mountain was once a lifelike sea of fire, and even recorded in history books.

For example, Wang Yande's "Gaochang Xingji" said that in Beiting Beishan (i.e., Flame Mountain), there is often smoke rising in the mountain, but there are no clouds and mist.

At night, the flame is like a torch, and the birds and mice are all red. And when the famous Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen passed through the Flame Mountain for the first time, he wrote the poem "Through the Volcano" as follows: "The volcano is seen today, and it is abrupt Puchangdong. The red flame burns the clouds, and the hot atmosphere is steaming and empty. I don't know the yin and yang charcoal, why do you burn it alone. When I came to the harsh winter, there was a lot of wind under the mountain. People and horses sweat hard, who knows how to create and transform. "It can be seen that the fire is fierce and the heat wave is hitting people.

So when everyone came here, they couldn't help but feel anxious, steaming feeling, the whole body was very hot, sweating, one after another heat waves, endlessly, like a deep hot furnace, the whole body was like a charcoal fire, dripping sweat came out continuously, everyone invariably began to wipe the sweat beads on their faces, especially Duan Gongzi was roasted by the heat wave, it looked more white and red, fine skin and tender meat, jade trees in the wind, graceful, let me involuntarily fascinated, pounding, feeling more steaming, blood boiling, so I didn't want to see moreThe tall camels, too, had a dry mouth and were irritable, and began to lick their chapped lips with their large, wide, long tongues, and we quickly stopped to replenish the water.

I saw that the flame mountain is endless, about 100 kilometers long, the widest point is 10 kilometers, the altitude is about 500 meters, and the main peak is 831.7 meters above sea level.

Flame Mountain, Tong Mountain, bald mountains, no grass, birds hidden. Whenever it is in the middle of summer, it is also called the Flame Mountain. After checking Baidu, it turned out that Huoshan is the hottest place in China, with the highest temperature in summer as high as 47.8 degrees Celsius, and the highest surface temperature as high as 70 degrees Celsius.

Turpan has a typical continental arid desert climate. The number of days above 35°C is more than 100 days, and even the number of days with extreme heat above 38°C is as high as 38 days.

The absolute maximum temperature measured over the years is 49.6°C, while the surface temperature can reach 83.3°C, which is worthy of the name

"Chinese Hot Pole". The average annual precipitation in Huozhou is only 16 mm, half of which is in summer, while the annual precipitation in Tuoxun is only 5.9 mm

"China's dry pole". Flaming Mountain is one of the branches of the Tianshan Mountains, which was formed during the Himalayan orogeny 50 to 60 million years ago.

For tens of millions of years, the countless fold belts left by the lateral movement of the earth's crust and the wind erosion and rain stripping of nature have formed the undulating mountains and vertical and horizontal ravines of the Flaming Mountains.

The temperature in the mountains can reach 47°C in summer, and in direct sunlight, it can reach 80°C, and even hard-boiled eggs can be baked directly on the sand.

Zeng Lu suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is the famous flame mountain, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" calls it the mountain of fire, it is better to see it than to see it, today I saw its true face of Lushan is really shocking, wow, what a big red mountain range, I have never seen such a red land, it is really like a pile of lifelike flames, this name is really good, it is really worthy of the name." Hu Jiaojiao said curiously: "It's really strange, it's not hot in other places, and there are many valleys left in the belly of those mountains we passed just now, such as Tao'er ditch, Mutou ditch, Tuyu ditch, Lianmuqin ditch, Subo ditch, etc. However, these valleys are still green and shaded, the scenery is beautiful, the flowing water is murmuring, the melons and fruits are fragrant, it is quite cool, why is it so hot here? It is really a world of difference, the sky is very different, it is unimaginable. Xiao Fei said freely: "This truth is actually very simple, because Turpan is the lowest place for the Uyghur language. It is located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, deep inland, far from the ocean, surrounded by a large area of arid areas, sandwiched between the Bogda Mountains and the Kuruktag Mountains in the East Tianshan Mountains, forming the famous Turpan-Hami Fall Basin. In addition, due to the extremely arid climate, the ability of flowing water to transport materials is very weak, and the accumulation of hydraulic points in the basin is very small, and these flaming mountains are coiled in the central and northern parts of the basin, and the weathered material eroded by the flowing water of the Tianshan Mountains due to the blocking effect makes it difficult to enter the center of the basin, and it cannot be replenished by material sources after its fall, so the basin is naturally becoming more and more low-lying. In addition, Turpan is far away from the ocean, and the humid air mass of the ocean is unable to enter, and the Atlantic water vapor from the west is blocked by the Tianshan Mountains. Its terrain is too low, the difference in elevation between the mountains and the basin is more than 5,600 meters in a short distance, and the foehn effect caused by the sinking and warming of the air flow makes the place dry and hot. Therefore, it is known as the island of fire. Because the mountains are bare, the grass and trees are not covered, the Gobi Desert has a large area, the sunshine time is long, the daytime temperature is rapid, the basin is too low, the hot air is not easy to be lost, the formation of the world's only hot furnace above the 42 ° north latitude, we are really super lucky, this kind of wonder is second to none in the world, it is rare to see, this peculiar terrain and landform of the flame scenic spot is really a pearl in the west of Xinjiang, the treasure of the world. ”