Journey to Xinjiang (10) ... Desert willow

If you don't come to Xinjiang, you won't feel the beauty on the vast Gobi Desert. ...

June is the most colorful season on the Gobi Desert! Unknown flowers appeared in piles from the crevices of the stone, dancing their elf-like bodies happily against the warm wind. There is also green grass, which absorbs water hungrily in the low-lying cracks, so that your life can continue! The bushes on both sides of the gully are full of goose yellow flowers, all over the branches, standing among them, like a paradise!

This is just a little surprise from the desert. What makes people crazy is that "you can smell the flowers of red willows ten miles away"! On the Gobi desert, you can see everywhere: or an old man with one arm, standing proudly on the high hills of the Gobi desert! Or piles of crowded together, swaying happily, or patches of red willows extend to the depths of the ravines in the Gobi Desert, and rows of mighty soldiers stand on the vast Gobi Desert and stick to their homes!

June and July are the season when red willows bloom! Pink trees and fragrant flowers will make you intoxicated in the desert. "Yiyi red willow is full of sand, and its color has never been as crimson." This is a poem written by Ji Xiaolan, a great scholar in Qing Dynasty, when he was exiled to Xinjiang, praising the red willow flower! Shi Buhua, a poet, described the red willow flower as "the poplar welcomes the rustling and the beauty is the red willow flower". "A few red willow shadows, dancing visitors (Su Bu)" is an extremely gentle compliment, presenting the graceful red willow to our eyes! Salix psammophila is one of the most common plants in Gobi desert and desert areas of Xinjiang. This tenacious and beautiful psammophyte adds some beauty to the majestic beauty of Xinjiang, and it is the crowning touch of this oil painting land. In the pen of frontier fortress poets, it has always been brilliant and beautiful!

Tamarix chinensis is an ancient plant, its ancestral home is far away in Africa, and it came to Xinjiang with regression and climate drought 6,543.8+0.2 million years ago via the Mediterranean and Asia. Red willow is extremely cold-tolerant and salt-tolerant, and it is one of the few plants that can survive in the desert. Liu Hong took root and sprouted everywhere, bathed in bright sunshine, absorbed nutrients from the earth, grew silently, and never demanded the environment. Their footprints can be seen everywhere in the depths of the Gobi desert. Every year in spring, summer and autumn, the blooming red willow flowers bloom in flame-like colors, which are extremely dazzling in the deserted desert Gobi. Although its shape is graceful, it is as strong as pine and cypress! They put their roots deep into the saline-alkali land and covered the corners of the Gobi desert, blooming the most beautiful posture to decorate the vicissitudes of life, and then fixed them into scattered red willow bags and red willow mountains. Stop the rebellious wind and sand, stand proudly and never bow your head. Give the desert desolate Gobi a vibrant atmosphere!

The desert willow, which does not need the nourishment of fertile soil or the even exposure of rain and dew, has made amazing colors with its ordinary little heart, making nature inferior and beautiful!