Several old people thought for a while, and then discussed, ten minutes later, an old man said: "If you want to say that there is really a little bit of this dragon haunted place, but I don't know if it's accurate, I have a relative, his family lives at the foot of Changbai Mountain, I heard him talk about one thing in the early years, that is, there was a dragon in the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, I think the dragon is likely to run out of the Tianchi in Changbai Mountain!" ”

"Yes, there are often rumors of lake monsters or something, I think there must be dragons in there!" An old man echoed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Tianyi frowned, he didn't know if what the old man said was true or not, but one thing was certain, in this Tianchi on Changbai Mountain, there were indeed some things about lake monsters.

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the dragon infestation in Changbai Mountain, the water monster in Changbai Mountain doesn't look like a dragon...

Zhou Tianyi frowned!

Changbai Mountain; It is a famous mountain in China, a sacred territory of China since ancient times, and the birthplace of the three rivers of Songhua River, Tumen River and Yalu River. Named after the white pumice and snow cover of its many main peaks, all of them belonged to China before 1949, and later half of them were ceded to North Korea, and now they are the boundary mountains between China and North Korea. In order to better protect and develop Changbai Mountain, the Jilin Provincial People's Government demarcated the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve as early as 1960 and established the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve Management Bureau, covering an area of 196465 hectares. It is a nature reserve with the best pristine state, the richest species and the most complete ecosystem in the same latitude on the earth. There are not only pristine forests, but also tundras, meadows, lakes, rivers, swamps, etc., which are typical of the mountain ecosystems in the northern half of Eurasia.

Tianchi in Changbai Mountain is a dormant volcano, the crater is a lake, and the water of the summer melt pond is blue; The frozen ice surface in winter is white, surrounded by 16 mountain peaks, only between Tianhuo Peak and Guanri Peak, there is a narrow channel of pond water overflowing, flying down to Changbai Waterfall.

Changbai Mountain was formed by geological orogeny 12 million years ago, and after many eruptions it expanded into a giant umbrella body, and when the volcano was dormant, the spring overflowed, forming a vast water surface of more than 10 square kilometers. The elevation of Tianchi is meters, slightly elliptical, 4.4 kilometers long from north to south, and 3.37 kilometers wide from east to west. The catchment area is 21.4 km², the water surface area is 9.82 km², the water surface circumference is 13.1 km, the average water depth is 204 meters, and the deepest depth is 373 meters. The total water storage capacity is 2.04 billion cubic meters. The water temperature of Tianchi is 0.7C-11C, and the average annual temperature is 7.3C. Like a piece of magnificent jasper embedded in the majestic peaks of Changbai Mountain, Tianchi is the largest volcanic lake in China, and is also the highest mountain lake in the world with the deepest water. It is now the boundary lake between China and North Korea.

Changbai Mountain Tianchi Water Monster, according to many documents; On October 9, 1980, the Guangming Daily published an article entitled "Sightings of the Tianchi Monster", which probably stated that the author was watching the sunrise at the top of Tianchi on August 21, 1980 at about four o'clock in the morning, and suddenly found that there was an object on the water surface in the distance, with a body as big as a cow and a head as big as a basin, and swimming extremely fast, with a long trumpet-shaped water line dragging behind him. As soon as this report came out, it was incomprehensible. The Tianchi of Changbai Mountain is a crater lake, the mountain is high and the water is cold, and the nutrient content in it is very low. So far, this mystery has not been solved, so the rumor that there is a "monster" in Tianchi has spread to this day.

On July 28, 2005, more people witnessed the unidentified creature on the western slope of Changbai Mountain. Meng Fanying, director of the Songjiang River Tourism Branch of the Changbai Mountain National Nature Reserve Administration in Jilin Province, said that at around 2 p.m. on July 25, 2005, some tourists witnessed the "Tianchi Water Monster" on the top of the western slope of Changbai Mountain. Mr. Dong, who runs a telescope rental at the top of the mountain, said that the "water monster" appeared on the water surface on the North Korean side, about 100 meters from the shore. I saw it leaping up and down, like a seal playing in the water, giving people the first impression that the fish was leaping. From the binoculars, it looks black, not very big, I can't see what it is, some say it looks like a dinosaur, some say it looks like a big iron pot, some say it looks like a buffalo, but it's definitely not a fish. It swam in the water for more than ten minutes before disappearing. The one or two hundred tourists who were on the mountain at that time also saw it.

On July 29, 2013, the staff of the Tianchi Volcano Monitoring Station in Changbai Mountain introduced the suspected "Tianchi Water Monster" he photographed. According to reports, at about 5 o'clock on July 27, he and his colleagues went up the mountain to the waterside of Tianchi on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain to monitor the temperature of the hot spring water and take samples of the overflow gas from the hot spring. After taking the sample, he suddenly saw that something suddenly cut a "V" shaped water wave on the originally calm water surface of Tianchi in the distance. At the front of the waves, there seemed to be a "black spot" emerging from the water, swimming forward quickly. So I immediately took out the camera I had brought with me and took pictures. Since Wu Chengzhi's camera can't shoot long distances, it's impossible to determine what it is. In a series of photos he took, two of them were relatively clear: one of the suspected "monsters" had their heads black when they were exposed to the water, and the other was sunk underwater, leaving only scratch marks. In addition, there is a "black dot", after zooming in on the computer, I checked the photos taken and found that there was a suspected "water monster" head exposed to the water, and the blurred outline was quite like the head and neck of a deer exposed to the water.

At 14:50 on November 24, 2013, nearly 100 tourists witnessed two "water monsters" swimming and playing in the water by the Tianchi Lake, from the photos taken by tourists, there is a water wave more than 10 meters long and a white back that looks like a "water monster" exposed, a "water monster" about 1.5 meters to 2 meters long, one after the other from east to west, swimming towards the fairy bay. The "water monster" began to swim on the surface of the lake about 600 meters away from the Haixi Trail, and then, the "water monster" swam in a circular shape in the lake, one would float, the other would sink, and a huge circular wave would swing on the water surface, and the "water monster" swam on the surface of Tianchi Lake for about 10 minutes, and then dived into the lake and disappeared.

At the same time, many scientists have made a lot of research on the water monster in Tianchi of Changbai Mountain and have drawn a lot of conclusions.

Some scientists believe that; They proposed that the water monster was a hallucination caused by an otter, because the water monster and the otter captured in the camera are strikingly similar, and the otter generally leaves Tianchi in the spring and comes to Tianchi in the autumn, which can also explain why people see the water monster in July and August. But there is no conclusive evidence for this claim, and it is not universally accepted.

Some scientists believe that the Tianchi Monster may actually be a marine fish similar to "sunfish". Changbaishan Tianchi is an active volcano and is close to the Sea of Japan, and it is very likely that there is a tunnel to the Sea of Japan, so it is not impossible for sunfish to enter Tianchi through the tunnel. (To be continued.) )