In the city
Day in and day out, I live and move through the neighborhoods
Have you ever had a moment like this:
When you stand at a crossroads
Watch the traffic lights change into flashing lights
Red, yellow, green, the color gradually blurred
Suddenly I wanted to leave this familiar scene that could no longer be familiar
Set off to see poetry and far away
The northwest of the motherland is vast, and the desert is lonely
Enough poetry on the Silk Roads
But you know it's in the northwest waters
Is it also unusually poetic?
When you see colorful rivers and lakes
Have you ever thought that a light and light can also have such colorful changes as red, yellow and green?
It is different from the city signal light
These colors are more colorful
It is also a color unique to the land of China:
Apricot yellow/orange yellow, bamboo green/turquoise, jade red/rose red...
Take advantage of the most beautiful season in the Northwest
You Xiaojun took stock of 8 niche northwest waters with the most Chinese colors
Take you out of the city
Travel to the magic of nature!
1
Apricot Yellow - Aiken Springs
"Calm and powerful Chinese colors"
Location: Mangya City, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai
Aiken Springs
Known as "Tears of Angels"
Also known as the "Devil's Eye"
People say it is a divine bird that flies towards Kunlun
On the land stained with sulfur
A glimpse of emerald green geothermal springs is constantly churning
The floating minerals slowly stack outwards
Gradually, it dissolves into a different yellow color
Mixed with a little milky white
Against the background of the earth, the yellow color of apricots when ripe is revealed
This is a calm and powerful Chinese color
It seems that this giant bird will flapp its wings and take off at any time in the next second
2
Yellow - Qarhan Salt Lake
"There is a hardness that can support the Qinghai-Tibet Railway"
Location: Golmud City, Qinghai Province
Qarhan Salt Lake
It is the largest salt lake in the country
It's about the size of 56 chaka salt lakes
It is fed by more than 10 inland rivers, including the Golmud River
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through here
The large expanse of green is really refreshing
The white salt layer at the bottom of the lake makes the lake water more transparent
It's like God pouring a glass of milk into a turquoise salt lake
Redeemed the now ghostly artemisia yellow
White Thousand Island salt flowers are all over the lake
Like a lace band
Divide this piece of green deep and shallow
The high salinity environment has no vegetation and no fish to survive
The Qarhan Salt Lake, once known as the "forbidden zone of life"
Now it has finally taken on a different kind of vibrant Chinese color
3
Bamboo Green/Xionghuang - Liujiaxia Reservoir
The "Pearl of the Plateau"
Location: Gansu and Qinghai junction
Clearly distinguished
It is that the river is clear on one side and the river is turbid on the other
When the two rivers meet, they are clear and not mixed
There are two colors in the same water
The Liujiaxia Reservoir is such a existence
The Tao ([táo]) River in the lower reaches of the reservoir joins the Yellow River
The male yellow water of the Tao River blends into the green yellow water of the bamboo forest
The intersection is clear
The reservoir is located in a highland canyon
From the Liujiaxia Dam in the east
West to the mouth of Bingling Temple
The Yellow River does not contain much sand here
Sedimentation through reservoirs
It's so transparent and clear
The lake is vast and the water and sky are colorful
Therefore, it is also known as the "Pearl of the Plateau"
The river stretches on both sides of the peak
Even if they meet
It is also a clear boundary, and autumn does not make a mistake
There is a suitable Chinese color
4
Patina - Water Yadan
"Tenderness in a Desert"
Location: Jiner Lake, Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province
The Yadan landform that already exists in the world
Most are in very arid areas
And the "Water Yadan" located in qinghai's Qaidam Basin
It is a forgotten world on the Gobi Desert
It is tenderness in the desert
How many people have come for this strange landscape
I want to see how the Yadan landscape is immersed in the water
Lake Ginaer originates in the western section of Kunlun Mountain
Atmospheric thermal effects expanded the lake and flooded the natural areas of Qaidam West and North Hills
It becomes unique
Spectacular watery landforms
It is jasper on the Gobi Desert
A mysterious place where angels and demons coexist
It is also a paradise for explorers
It is also a kind of simplicity with a gentle Chinese color
5
Turquoise - Dachaidan Emerald Lake / Cliff Emerald Lake
"China's Maldives, God's Jewel"
Location: Dachaidan Town, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Great Chaidan Emerald Lake
Known as "China's Maldives"
"Emerald Lake in emerald lakes"
And another emerald lake in Qinghai, the emerald lake
It is also made up of large and small salt lakes
Depending on the mineral concentration in the water
The colors presented are also green, yellow and blue
But there are many more different colors in the emerald lake on this land.
Tiffany blue, amber, milk white...
Of course
Turquoise is also the eternal theme of this emerald lake
On a base inlaid with salt
It's as beautiful as a fairyland on earth
This romantic Chinese color
Not every country can compare
6
Jade Red - Earth Bloodline
"Cross-section of the earth's blood vessels"
Location: National Highway 315, near Boundary Monument 757
Someone once said
Rivers are the blood vessels of the earth
And this one is so different
It comes with a contrasting color
A faint jade red
It's like a colorful streamer left in the northwest valley
The red riverbed runs through the earth bridge
It's like the blood of the earth
It is a dry river channel on National Highway 315
When viewed, it resembles the anatomical surface of the human venous vascular muscles
I was even more shocked to see it
This fleshy Chinese color
Loneliness and brave grandeur
7
Rose Red - Badain Jaran Pink Lake
"Roses in the Desert"
Location: Inner Mongolia Alxa Right Banner Badain Jaran Desert
This is the most beautiful desert selected by China National Geographic - badain Jaran Desert
This desert is dotted with more than a hundred large and small lakes
There is a pink lake unique to the desert and full of girlish hearts——
Badain Giurin Dagtu Powder Lake
Every summer when the vegetation is in full bloom
It's like a different rose blooming in a barren desert
Affected by the concentration of salt minerals at the bottom of the lake, the amount of water and the temperature
Pink, red, brown...
It's like a divine stroke of nature's palette
Come here
It's like encountering a pink love affair
It's just a glance
You can remember the Chinese colors for a lifetime
8
Orange Yellow - Chumar River
"Red River Valley Below the Road"
Location: Western Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
The Chumar River is also called the Quma River, Chumar
It is the Tibetan word for "red water river"
The east-to-east point of the Yangtze River Source Area of Sanjiangyuan National Park is here
Head west to Coco Siri
The straight highway stretches forward
The wide, gentle Chumar River flows
The Chumar River is shrouded in endless red silt and undulating sandbars
Upstream is the heart of the Coco Siri Reserve
There is always a galloping vitality
and wild colors
When the writer Wang Zongren first came to the Chumar River, he sighed:
"Tanggula Mountain and Chumar River,
It's two different heights on the Tibetan Plateau...
Because of the Chumar River,
Tanggula Mountain stands more like a mountain. ”
The beauty of the Great Northwest
Also beautiful tenderness
It's magnificent if you don't see it with your own eyes
Probably not in tears
Because some beauty is never the same every time you see it
There are lakes, there are forests, there are roads, there are grasslands;
There are deserts, there are stars, there are snow-capped mountains, there are Gobi,
There are also the strange colors of the Chinese land that nourish the eyes!
Life always comes and goes
Don't wait for the japanese to come
Take advantage of the most beautiful summer in the northwest
Let's go!
Copywriter @ Yanggu Editor @ Tintin