Yecheng in Xinjiang is the beginning of Heaven and the gate of Kunlun. Yecheng is the abbreviation of Yeerqiang, named after the Yeerqiang River. Yeerqiang is a Turkic language, which is interpreted as "the city on the cliff". Yecheng has a history of about 2 1 and 8 1 year, and the Western Han Dynasty is one of the 36 countries in the Western Region. Yecheng is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, more than 500 kilometers away from the capital Urumqi/Kloc-0 and 260 kilometers away from Kashgar. It is bordered by Karakorum Mountain and Kunlun Mountain in the south, Taklimakan Desert in the north and Yarkant River in the west.
There are 13 ethnic groups living in Yecheng, including Uyghur, Han, Kazak, Hui, Kirgiz, Mongolian, Tajik, Russian and Uzbek, among which Uyghur accounts for 93%, Han accounts for 6% and other ethnic minorities account for 1%. Yecheng borders Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The Xinzang Highway, also known as National Highway 2 19, starts at Yecheng with the zero kilometer of Line 2 19. Zero kilometer has become a landmark area of Yecheng, and the zero kilometer stone tablet has witnessed the excavation of a new Yecheng. The 2 19 line has a total length of 2140km, passes through Xinjiang and Xizang Autonomous Region, and connects the northwest and southwest regions of China. It is an important route into Xinjiang and Tibet, and it is also an important national defense highway in China. 1962, the war on the western front of the Sino-Indian War took place in Aksai Chin area along this road. This road is also the highest and most dangerous in the world.
In 2006, the mineral resources of Kunlun Mountain were greatly developed. First time to Yecheng, first time to West Kunlun Mountain. From then on, I began my ten-year trip to the western regions and my dream of Kunlun. In ten years, a snowy area was planted in Kunlun. For ten years, I have been exploring and walking in the glacier canyon called Kunlun Mountain year after year. Leave Yecheng and Kunlun Mountain on 20 16. It's been three years, and I've never felt like I left. I feel that I have been living in the place called Yecheng at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.
In the past three years, people have been in Qinling Mountains, but my soul has been fostered in the western regions, in the desert and oasis between Yecheng, Kunlun Mountain and Tianshan Mountain. In the past ten years, I have been walking in the mountains and deserts of Wan Li, and on the road of travelers in ancient Central Asia. My footsteps belong to the exotic camel bells ringing on the Silk Road, and to the Millennium Populus euphratica left in the ancient Gobi Road in the desert. Years are like falling flowers, leaves fall into mud, and time is crushed into dust by the wheels of modern civilization. I walked in my own world, and the snow-capped mountains and canyons of Kunlun Mountain witnessed my footprints. The wind of Kunlun Mountain virtually swept all this away.
When I got lost in Bashi Gobi in Usak at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, I looked forward to life and death day and night. Under the lonely starry sky, a lonely camel brought me back to earth. Yecheng No.2 Ranch is a farm of the Third Agricultural Division of the Corps. Here, I never imagined that I met Jiang Wanfu, an educated youth in Shanghai. An educated youth from the Great Northern Wilderness and an educated youth from Shanghai met in Kunlun Mountain. Jiang Wanfu's persistence in Kunlun Mountain for 43 years moved me and made me cry.
Xihexiu Township in Yecheng is the most remote township in Yecheng, and the road from Yecheng to Xihexiu Township left a deep memory for me. The company has the exploration right in No.5 Brigade of Xihexiu Township. Every time I take this road, I have to go to Abala. I, a walker, have walked through countless steep mountains and roads without roads, but the road to Xihe rest will never be forgotten by me. Every time I walk, I swear I'll never walk again, but I often break my word. There is no end to the road of Xihexiu. There are no tourists on the road of Xihexiu. The road of Xihexiu is full of the heartbeat of explorers and warriors who challenge death! Xihexiu's road is extremely beautiful and full of temptation, like a colorful poppy. The road built by Xihe is the road to the border and the road to wealth. The road built by Xihe will always retain the beauty of death!
My ten years in Kunlun have left no regrets, and my road belongs to me. My words were conquered by Yeerqiang, and my poems moved the western regions. Therefore, in the past three years, although people are in Tianshui, my words have been praising and remembering the western regions, flying in a place called Yecheng between Kunlun Mountain and the desert. During my ten years in the western regions, I am proud of myself and feel sorry for myself. I'm afraid it's hard to drink the best wine on the top of the snowy mountain in the world after drinking a cup of wine from the western regions. Leaving the western regions and not giving up the rest of my life, I have a passion to water this wandering soul.
Ye Cheng, I am your listless walker. One day, if I can bury my body under one of your Populus euphratica trees and nourish a small shade, it will be my beautiful home. Soul in the western regions, looking at Yecheng, looking at Kunlun in the south, traveling for ten years, nothing more!