Finally, with the help of his beautiful and lovely daughter, Cai Hongming made a sand sculpture castle.

The one-meter-high, half-meter-thick city wall is covered with a group of soldiers who look like and snowmen, and there are many buildings in the city, and there are some pedestrians who also look like.

Looking at the pedestrians his daughter piled out of sand, Cai Hongming felt that what he had made was no longer a castle, but like a dung pit.

"Mom, look, isn't the castle I made with my dad beautiful?" Chu Chu said proudly to his mother.

It's just that she casually piled a few lumps of sand with sand, and it became what she did, Cai Hongming said that he was very helpless.

"Pretty." Shi Wan'er smiled and touched her daughter's head.

At noon, they had dinner at the house of the farmer who opened a farmhouse in the village by the Qinghai Lake. It stands to reason that there should be a lot of fish to eat on this side of Qinghai Lake, but when Cai Hongming arrived at the farmhouse, he found that there was not a single fish in it. At this time, Cai Hongming remembered that most Tibetans here do not eat fish. In their hearts, Qinghai Lake is a holy Qinghai Lake, so they dare not use worldly filth to contaminate it. Besides, in the past, the local area was buried by water, that is, people were thrown into the lake after death.

If you think about it, doesn't that mean that the fish in the lake all grow up eating meat, and it feels disgusting to think about it.

However, the situation of not eating fish has begun to change since Qinghai Lake is lively and the number of foreign people has increased.

The people from outside don't care about you, anyway, you can eat what you have to eat, so that there are fewer and fewer fish in Qinghai Lake, and now they are all banned from fishing.

After eating and resting for a while, the group went to Chaka Salt Lake to play in the afternoon.

Chaka Salt Lake is also called Chaka or Dabsunnaoer, "Chaka" is Tibetan, which means salt pond, that is, the salt of Qinghai; "Dabsunnaor" is a Mongolian word that also means salt lake. The salt lake is located in the Qaidam Basin, sandwiched between Wanyan Tongbu Mountain, a branch of the Qilian Mountains, and Wanggaxiu Mountain, a branch of the Kunlun Mountains. The lake is 3,100 meters above sea level, 15.8 kilometers long from east to west, 9.2 kilometers wide from north to south, oval, with a total area of 105 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of 16 West Lakes.

Salt lakes are formed due to the movement of the earth's crust. Here we have to marvel at the power of nature.

Scientific research has found that the Tibetan Plateau was once part of the ocean, and after a long period of crustal movement, this ground was lifted to become the world's largest plateau, as a result of which the seawater was left in some low-lying areas to form many salt lakes and ponds, and Chaka Salt Lake is one of them. The salt inside the chaka (qiǎ) lake is almost endless, as the rain carries more salt down the surrounding mountains.

It used to be an outflow lake that flows eastward into the Gonghe Basin and into the Yellow River.

Tectonic uplift occurred around 10~130,000 years ago. This turned the Chaka Salt Lake into an inland lake.

Because the area here is smaller than Qinghai Lake, the annual rainfall is small, so the amount of water that can be injected here every year is very small, and the evaporation here is particularly strong, so this salt lake with extremely high salt content is formed.

Chaka Salt Lake is a brine lake where solid and liquid coexist, so there are places where you can stand, it is like a treasure mirror is inlaid in the snow-capped mountains and meadows, so it is also called "the mirror of the sky" by travelers.

A long time ago. The Chaka Salt Lake has been mined for more than 3,000 years.

The Book of Han and Geographical Chronicles recorded: "Jincheng County is northwest of Linqiang to Saiwai. There are the West Queen Mother's Room, the Immortal Sea, and the Salt Pond. "Xianhai is now Qinghai Lake, and Yanchi is Chaka Salt Lake.

There is also such a record in the "Xining Mansion New Chronicle": "In the west of the county, more than 500 li, southwest of Qinghai...... There are two hundred and dozens of miles around, and the salt system is natural, and it is endless. Mongolia scoops it with an iron spoon. The jade market trade, the people of the county rely on it. ”

Since about the 28th year of Qianlong (1763), the government has organized large-scale mining of salt lakes, and has set a salt law.

In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), the Dangar Hall Salt Bureau was established. It marks that Chaka salt has been included in the track of orderly operation and management.

Before liberation, Ma Bufang's regime set up a salt factory here, producing nearly 1,000 tons of raw salt every year.

After the liberation, the ancient Chaka salt pond after continuous construction and development, the initial realization of salt mining mechanization, can produce hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality raw salt every year, in addition to supplying Qinghai to all parts of the country, but also sell well in more than 20 provinces and regions across the country and exported to Japan, Nepal, the Middle East and other regions.

Cai Hongming feels that the meaning of travel is never to look at the scenery and take pictures.

Travel should be the expansion of knowledge while cultivating the body and mind, so when you go to a place, you should understand the history, culture, and local characteristics of the place, and enjoy the food and experience the local folk customs, which is the true meaning of travel.

The weather is nice today, the sky is blue, and there are white clouds. This is the best time to enjoy the salt lake.

Standing on the crystal clear surface of Chaka Salt Lake, looking at the figure reflected under their feet, they don't know whether the self in the shadow is the real self, or the current self is themselves.

When you get here, you can not only enjoy the scenery of the salt lake, but also visit the salt mining operation.

This is a world of salt, there is a smell of salt in the car, on the ground, and even in the air, and there are salt digging boats digging salt in the distance; Look at these salts up close, like crystal-like crystals; Taste it, the taste is slightly different from table salt. Large-scale modern salt mining vessels cruising on the lake. On the shore of the lake, small trains run back and forth, and the salt stone stands like a snow-capped mountain, showing the charming scenery and wealth of the firewood salt lake.

Originally, Chu Chu wanted to bring all the animals in the house, but unfortunately the people in the scenic spot were unwilling, for fear that the animals in the house would poop and pee inside.

It's just that after discussion, seeing that Chu Chu is so cute, she finally let her bring the smaller pika Xiaolong, Bailu Xuexue and unicorn mastiff horns in.

When Chu Chu went inside, he immediately liked it. Because there was water in the lake, she took off her shoes and ran to play on it, and pulled her mother to take beautiful photos with her. And Xue Xue, Xiaolong and Jiaojiao, who came with it, stretched out their tongues and licked the salt water in the lake. Chu Chu actually licked it curiously, but was immediately scolded by Shi Wan'er.

The salt grains in this lake are large and pure, and the salt taste is mellow and fragrant, because the salt crystals contain minerals, so that the salt crystals are blue-black, so it is called "green salt". In the past, green salt was famous.

It's just that now it has been found that the impurities contained in the green salt crystal are harmful to health when eaten regularly, so after these salts are mined, they have to go through several processes before they can be eaten.

The group played in Chaka Salt Lake until the sun set before reluctantly leaving, and set up a tent directly at night and stayed on the edge of Qinghai Lake.

Because they brought a lot of food with them when they came, they didn't have to go out to buy it, so they just cooked it by the lake and ate it.

Qinghai Lake at night is quiet, there is no hustle and bustle of tourists, only some breeze disturbs the light sound of the lake waves, the sound is like a beating note, together with a requiem, let Chu Chu who is tired of playing sleep peacefully. (To be continued.) )