The golden moon rising between the endless Gobi Desert in the dark blue low sky is particularly abrupt, conspicuous, those broken silver moonlight like water, unscrupulously pouring down, we rode horses from Yumen Pass along the ancient Shule River valley westward, in the faint moonlight like water, we can vaguely see that the Gobi Desert here has a continuous lake, The meadow is rich in water and grass, and the cattle and sheep are lazily lying on the ground at this moment, resting in groups together, and there are still wild ducks, egrets, geese, gray cranes, swans and other water birds in the dense water and grass are sleeping and perching. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWe didn't want to enjoy the scenery, continued to gallop on horseback, this way passed the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, Fengsui and other historical monuments, and then we continued to go west, passing through the swamp of the Shule River Valley, but the riverbed gradually became dry, those endless blue meadows began to gradually disappear, and those pitted river valleys were also annihilated by the Gobi Desert, we still tirelessly continued to continue along the valley to the west, and suddenly found that under the reflection of the white moonlight, the boundless, desolate Gobi Desert seemed to be covered with a layer of black gravel, as if sprinkled with black coal mines, the black and swarthy surface, like an endless stretch, the vast and boundless black ocean, after making people shudder, daunting, and daunting.

I couldn't help but ask Xiao Fei next to me: "What is this, why has the color changed now?" ”

Xiao Fei gushed endlessly: "This is the famous Black Gobi. This peculiar Gobi is located between Xinjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, with an area of about 200,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the area of Jiangsu and other provinces in modern society. However, as for its formation, there are different theories, I think it is probably exposed to the surface of the rock and gravel, the surface of the water evaporated, the dissolved minerals remained, and after abrasion, over time, it formed a layer of black and shiny dark brown iron-manganese compound, called desert rock paint, it is because it makes the surface black, from which the black Gobi gets its name. The Black Gobi is a non-renewable geographical wonder that also protects the environment, with the gravel covering the surface preventing sand and dust from flying. ”

I nodded and said, I see, we continued to move forward, and suddenly found that a strange place suddenly appeared in front of the Black Gobi, and the ancient castles of the earth yellow towered above the Black Gobi, like a huge ancient castle of the Middle Ages towering in front of us, with city walls, streets, buildings, squares, churches, There are sculptures, natural nature, scales and sections, vivid images, subtle and vivid, make the world jaw-dropping, a rough look, these appearance of the typical Yadan landform community, east and west about 25 kilometers long, north and south wide about 1-2 kilometers, stretch continuously, these natural sculptures are large in scale, strange in form, rare in the world, or square or round, or large or small, or such as stone pillars, or such as mounds, or such as steep walls, some are as complete as ever, some are fragmented, scattered, uneven in height, four or five meters low, twenty or thirty meters high, ranging in length and width, from more than ten meters to hundreds of meters, these masterpieces of nature, vivid, lifelike, can be called a ghostly workmanship, wonderful, jaw-dropping, breathtaking, especially under the cover of the moonlight, emitting a faint green light, looking creepy, chilling feeling spontaneously, strange wind protrusion, yin wind roaring, ghost sound, ghost crying wolf howl, flying sand and stones, strange rocks, extremely hideous, like the entrance to hell, people are frightened, the soul is scattered.

Hu Jiaojiao said curiously: "This ghost place, it looks eerie and terrifying, what kind of place is it? Just like the residence of the devils dancing around, it looks weird and scary, it is really creepy." ”

Brother Yixiu began to chatter endlessly: "You are really right, this place is the Devil's City, the Devil's City of the famous Yumen Guan Yadan, commonly known as the Devil's City." Yadan is a Uyghur word for a mound with steep walls, a kind of wind-eroded landform in a dry area, which is actually a miracle of nature completed by wind and water over countless years. Everyone knows Yumen Pass, but does not know that the Devil City is also famous, Dunhuang's Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Spring with its natural geographical wonders of the reputation has been well-known at home and abroad, and the comparable Yumen Pass Yadan Devil City is little known, but because of the Gobi vast, people, smoke is scarce to the road is difficult, few people set foot in this place, Dunhuang people are also many people who have heard and heard, few people have seen, no one cares, I have always heard, never had the opportunity to see with my own eyes, it is really better to see than to hear, it is too shocking. "In the gentle moonlight, we can see this devil's city without obstruction.

Xiao Fei said proudly: "In fact, there are three major Yadan landforms in China, the first is the Lop Nur area of Xinjiang, then the northwest of the Qaidam Basin, and then the Yadan of Dunhuang. Although Dunhuang is the smallest in area, it has a high appreciation value and the most spectacular scenery. It has been around for about 700,000 to 300,000 years, but it has always been a formidable no-man's land on the Silk Road, day and night, so it is inaccessible. ”

Hu Jiaojiao was excited, and said ecstatically: "Look, this sculpture is not like a majestic general, this sculpture is not like a desert lion, and these, you see that this big statue is not like a peacock opening the screen, and this statue is not like a yurt on the grassland, and this is simply a Silk Road camel team, these are like a group of fish going out to sea, the mainstay——"

Xiao Fei whispered to me: "Look, these works of art created by nature are really jaw-dropping, breathtaking, you see, many famous buildings in the world can be found here in miniature, you see this statue is not like the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, this statue is not like the Potala Palace in Tibet, and this image is not like the fleet sailing? This image is not like the pyramids in Egypt, the Sphinx, the Arab mosque-"

I put my heart on the road, eyebrows fluttering and said: "It's really dazzling, everything, I see that I am really dazzled, dizzying, in it, as if entering the World Museum of Architecture and Art, let us really be amazed, breathtaking, unforgettable, nature is the most outstanding sculptor, these masterpieces of nature, can be called a ghostly workmanship, wonderful, admirable to the ground." ”