1. Legend has it that in the past, the Kubuqi area was flat and fertile, with lush grass and fresh flowers and fertile fields.
One day, Zhang Guolao, a fairy, rode a donkey backwards and rode Xiangyun from west to east, when he suddenly heard a noise below, he stopped to watch. When he learned that these people were quarrelling over trifles, he felt bored, shook his head with a sigh and left quickly.
As he walked, a dark cloud floated towards him, and suddenly there were strong winds and thunderstorms. While patting the donkey's ass, Zhang Guolao happily washed away the dust with rain and let the wind comb his unkempt hair. At this time, there was a faint sound of abuse and tearing in his ear. He thought, people live in such a beautiful environment, what is there to argue about? So, I stopped and listened.
When he heard that people were fighting for a palm-sized lawn and refused to give way to each other because of the ownership of the cut trees, he said to himself, "Since God has given you this land of geomantic omen, it means that you Qi Xin should work together to build it, but you are wasting good time because of some trivial things. Sin, sin! "
As soon as Zhang Guolao turned around, he became a beggar in rags and came to earth. When I saw that people there lived by cutting down trees to sell firewood and wild flowers, I inserted a twig next to the cut-down tree, which meant that the cut-down tree should be replanted with young trees. Another word "planting" was spelled with wildflowers of different colors to warn them to plant while picking.
But people always think that there are green trees and wild flowers growing all over the mountains, and it is a trivial matter for every household to cut down a few big trees and pick a few bunches of wild flowers. However, a few years later, when Zhang Guolao went there again, there were only stumps left in the green trees in the east, and there were no wild flowers in full bloom. There was a harsh "click, click" sound of cutting trees in the west.
In a rage, Zhang Guolao immediately made a small hole in the bottom of the small sandbag, and the oppressed sand left the narrow world, landed on the ground and ran around, first forming sand dunes, then connecting them into sand dune chains, and finally, the fertile farmland was swallowed up by the ruthless desert. This is the origin of Kubuqi Desert.
2. According to legend, in the first year of Jin Mingchang (119), Zamuhe, Genghis Khan's sworn brother, was jealous of his power and joined forces with other tribes to attack Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan lost the war between the two sides and was trapped in a desert full of Haloxylon ammodendron (now Minqin Desert in the county under the jurisdiction of Wuwei City, Gansu Province), hungry and exhausted.
Zhamuhe cruelly boiled and killed the prisoners in 7 cauldrons in public, which angered the gods. The gods sent Shenma to jump in front of Genghis Khan, screaming in the sky, shooting Jingxue at the roots of Haloxylon ammodendron, and then using their hooves to create plant roots like Shenma's genitals (that is, desert cistanche deserticola). Genghis Khan and the soldiers ate the root, and the divine power emerged, which defeated the Zamuhe tribe in one fell swoop and created a new era of conquering the European continent.
Extended information:
Desert, also called sand desert, is called sandy desert, and one third of the earth's land is desert. Because there is little water, it is generally thought that the desert is desolate and lifeless, and it is called "barren sand". Compared with other areas, there is not much life in the desert, but if you look closely, you will find that there are many animals and plants hidden in the desert, especially those that come out at night. The terrain of the desert is concave and convex, with a hot climate and little rainfall.
causes of desert
the so-called desertification means that after vegetation destruction, the ground loses its cover, and under the action of dry climate and strong wind, green Yuan Ye gradually becomes a process similar to desert landscape. Land desertification mainly occurs in arid and semi-arid areas, and the key factor to form desert is climate, but at the edge of desert, the original vegetation may be grassland, which is desertified due to human factors.
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