In 2020, Wei Yuan five-car travelers gathered online in Dunhuang City in the Gobi Desert without using local travel companies or hiring tour guides. They purely followed the way of outings and made their own strategies to drive through Lop Nur , but inexplicably got a mysterious wooden ancient token while sleeping rough in Lop Nur every night!
Travel friends said that driving in Lop Nur is just for fun and excitement, because there are many mysterious legends and unsolved mysteries there. Who wouldn’t want to see the young people who have cars for transportation? If you really encounter a mysterious "wooden token" incident that has a near miss and you can't even think about it, wouldn't you think it would be interesting?
★Wei Yuan.com gathered about five car travelers Dunhuang
Wei Yuan is from Jinan, Shandong. He has a straightforward personality and has five years of experience in self-driving travel. Others who were approved according to the conditions published by Wei Yuan on the Internet are young people with more than three years of self-driving experience, and their vehicles are all off-road vehicles . Among them, Wei Yuan was driving a double-cab four-wheel drive pickup truck.
There are 15 people in five cars, 10 men and 5 women. They are all smart and capable, and have strong hiking, mountaineering, adventurous spirit and ability to cope with emergencies. This makes Wei Yuan very happy. Wei Yuan first proposed : Although there are several self-driving crossing routes in Lop Nur, it is very possible to travel alone when crossing. Although the danger is rare, mysterious events may occur. I hope everyone is mentally prepared.
The self-driving route discussed collectively is: Dunhuang → Black Mountain Pass → Pengjiamu Monument → Wadi Riverbed → Aqike Valley → Lop Nur Town → Lop Nur Lake Center → Loulan Ancient City → Ruoqiang County . Eight days
★ Traveled to Yangguan and Yumenguan
html On August 10, Wei Yuan's five-vehicle convoy drove through Lop Nur, led by Wei Yuan's pickup truck, and left Dunhuang and traveled 70 kilometers westward to Yangguan ruins .
Yangguan is located near Antique Beach in the Hexi Corridor. The pass was set up in the period of the Western Han Dynasty, and it was named Yangguan because it was located to the south of Yumen Pass. The Yangguan in Wang Wei's " I urge you to drink a glass of wine, leaving Yangguan in the west without any old friends " is the current Yangguan site.
Going north out of Yangguan is Yumen Pass, which was an important pass on the northern road from the ancient Central Plains to the Western Regions and even Central Asia and Europe. Yumen Pass is the only place through which jade is transported from the Western Regions to the east. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the Western Regions and established four counties in Hexi, he built the pass and named it Yumen Pass. At that time, Yumen Pass was full of caravans, envoys came and went, camel bells jingled, people shouted and horses neighed, and everything was prosperous. There are 2 Yumenguan ruins, 420 beacon towers, and 18 sections of the Great Wall ruins. When you climb the pass, you can see the vastness of the world and the vastness of the Gobi. The Great Wall and the beacons are like earth dragons, meandering towards the Gobi Desert in the northwest of the pass.
Yumenguan Ruins
★ The first night I stayed at Heishankou, I woke up and got a wooden token
At noon, I left Yumenguan and headed west. The Gobi was vast, the yellow sand was long, and there was no human habitation. Overnight at Black Mountain Pass. Black Mountain Pass, also known as Black Wind Pass, is often visited by black sandstorms .
I saw a lot of history that day, and the travel friends had a lively discussion, and they didn't go to bed until late at night. When I woke up the next morning, the person on duty found an ancient wooden token with mottled texture on the front of the car, with the official script inscription "There is an old friend from Yangguan in the west"! Where does the
token come from? The person on duty said that no traffic passed through overnight. But at dawn, I was confused and saw this mysterious wooden sign when I opened my eyes. "There is an old friend on the way out of Yangguan in the west" , which is a poem that reflects Wang Wei's poem. Lop Nur is just west of Yangguan. So who is ’s old friend ? Are you a friend of any of the 15 travel friends?
The people scattered around looking for clues, but there were no traces. Check the luggage and vehicle, there is no damage. Everyone was a little excited and a little nervous.
★ On the second night, a wooden token was placed in front of the Pengjiamu monument.
On the second day, we traveled southwest from Heishan Pass to Pengjiamu Cemetery. This is the only place you must pass through Lop Nur.
Peng Jiamu is a former researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and vice president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In March 1964, I visited the outskirts of Lop Nur for the first time. In November 1979, I visited Lop Nur for the second time.In May 1980, I visited Lop Nur for the third time. On June 17, 1980, I went missing mysteriously during the scientific research in Lop Nur.
Lop Nur Peng Jiamu Monument
Legend has it that strange phenomena such as Pisces jade pendants and mirror people appeared in Lop Nur. It is also said that the mirror people and sand people are murderous and often kill people who enter Lop Nur. The anatomy of a dead mirror image shows an unknown plant in the abdomen. After the person eats it, he will kill without fear of pain or death. It is said that Peng Jiamu went into the depths of Lop Nur to search for this strange plant, but disappeared.
There are many speculations about Peng Jiamu’s disappearance: some said he fell into quicksand, some said he was protected by the state, some said he defected to the enemy and fled, some said he was killed internally... But Peng Jiamu was a real scientist, and relevant state departments established a monument at the place where he disappeared. Anyone who enters Lop Nur must pass through this place and offer sacrifices to the Pengjiamu Monument.
Wei Yuan's motorcade set up camp here after offering sacrifices to the Pengjiamu Monument in the evening. After breakfast the next day, everyone came to the monument again for a farewell ceremony. Suddenly, they found a mysterious carved ancient wooden sign exactly the same as yesterday placed in front of the monument!
Night in Lop Nur
Everyone was stunned. Who put this token? No cars passed here last night? Who dares to walk here in no man's land? Could it be Peng Jiamu's soul blessing everyone through the wooden sign? Is the old friend Peng Jiamu? Some people become more frightened the more they think about it, and even get chills down their spines.
★ On the third night, I slept on a dry river bed, with a wooden token hanging on the headlight
On the third day, the convoy meandered through the uninhabited Gobi desert, and the journey was bumpy. The surrounding fields are vast, with not a drop of water, not a bush of grass, not a single bird in the sky, not a single animal footprint on the ground. This is typical sea of death !
The car arrived at a dry river bed and not far away, we found a dry tree root left by a traveler. The flat side was carved with three crooked characters "Dry River Bed". The font fit perfectly with the primitive environment.
Everyone set up camp and slept here. In order to prevent the inexplicable "ancient wood tokens" from appearing again, everyone decided to rotate the personnel on duty every hour. Wei Yuan checks the post from time to time.
However, when I woke up early the next day, there was an third ancient wooden token hanging on the rearview mirror of captain Wei Yuan's pickup truck that was the same as the previous two days! is still engraved with " There is an old friend from Yangguan in the west"!
The person on duty, convened by Wei Yuan, reviewed all the details of the shift handover in public. They swore that the shift would last only one hour and no one would sleep. But where did the "ancient wood token" come from?
★On the fourth night, in the Aqik Valley, the wooden token was inserted in the sand.
On the fourth day, the convoy continued to move forward. But there's something dull about the air in every car. The mysterious wooden token makes people think hard.
The fleet dragged the yellow dust, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, sometimes turning straight. Along the way are the strange Yadan landforms. Yadan is Mongolian , which means steep mound. Due to years of strong wind erosion, these mounds resemble ancient castles, houses, mushrooms, ancient beasts, birds, earthen Buddhas, and even monsters.
In the evening, we arrived at the planned " Achik Valley ". This was once one of the important passages of the Silk Road. Now it is also the only place to pass through Lop Nur from Dunhuang.
In the early morning of the fifth day, 15 travel friends consciously searched tents, cars and surroundings, but did not find the mysterious ancient wooden sign. However, just as the car was about to drive, a wooden token exactly like the first three was inserted into the sand in front of the car!
Wei Yuan was stunned, and everyone was stunned. Everyone got out of the car in unison and stared blankly at the mysterious ancient wooden token on the sand!
Lop Nur Aqike Valley Yadan Landscape
★On the fifth night, in Lop Nur Town, someone delivered a wooden token by courier
Travel northwest from the Aqike Valley to Lop Nur Town. At the end of the 20th century, the state discovered a large-scale potassium-rich brine mine in the core area of Lop Nur, with reserves of up to 200 million tons, and established a development enterprise. On January 23, 2002, Lop Nur Town was established.
From being deserted to a modern and prosperous town, travel friends feel relaxed all of a sudden. Now in the densely populated Lop Nur town, strange wooden ancient tokens should appear, right?
html In the early morning of 016, the motorcade was about to pass through the central lake area of Lop Nur. Suddenly a courier delivered a small carton package. The cardboard box is very strong, but it is full of vicissitudes, as if it has traveled a long distance. Wei Yuan opened it in public, and it turned out to be the fifth ancient wooden token!
Lop Nur Town
The address where the carton is sent is "Lop Nur". Five cars drove to the courier company together to check. The staff said that someone sent this carton express last night and requested that it be delivered to the "Wei Yuan Crossing Convoy" this morning. There is a mobile phone number on the carton. Wei Yuan hurriedly dialed, and Ms. from mobile company said: The number you dialed is empty!
★The sixth night, the token was placed in front of the tombstone
html On August 16, the motorcade entered the lake center area. The road was full of potholes and the speed was no more than 40 miles. After a long journey, we finally reached the center of the lake. What was once a vast expanse of water is now a dry desert. A patch of white salt-alkali covered the pale ground. In the center of the lake stands a stone tablet "Lop Nur Lake Center Area", which is full of emotions.Wei Yuan said that Lop Nur was once the gathering place of many rivers, forming the second largest saltwater lake in China with an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers. But in less than half a century since 1972, this vast expanse of water has turned into a dry basin.
Now the green grass by the lake has withered, the lush Populus euphratica has withered, and all life has died because of the lack of water, and this place has become a "sea of death." In just 50 years, a lot has changed! Natural evolution is the result of human greed and endless offense! Everyone was filled with emotion after hearing this.
drove dozens of kilometers to Yu Chunshun ’s tomb. This is a figure that travelers who travel through Lop Nur must pay homage to. Although he is not a scientist like Peng Jiamu who has made outstanding contributions to the country, he is a hiker.
In 1988, Yu Chunshun started hiking alone, completing the first human alone trekking through the entire Sichuan-Tibet, Qinghai-Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan-Tibet, and -China-Nepal highway, covering more than 40,000 kilometers and covering 23 countries. Provinces. In June 1996, when he was hiking through Lop Nur, he encountered a sandstorm, high temperature and dehydration, and died unexpectedly...
In front of Yu Chunshun's monument is a variety of mineral water, which is a must for travelers who travel through Lop Nur to offer sacrifices. Let the descendants who come here drink it as they please. Everyone put mineral water on the table, and the men who could smoke each lit three cigarettes and placed them respectfully on the altar.
However, Wei Yuan suddenly pointed to the center of the altar, where the sixth mysterious wooden token appeared! is shocking to everyone. No one spoke, all 15 people stared blankly at the token. They accepted the lesson of the token appearing in front of the Peng family's wooden monument, and especially carefully examined the altar before placing the mineral water. There was no such token at all!
★On the seventh night, there is a note under the token of Loulan Ancient City: Loulan Ancient City welcomes you!
On the seventh day, the last stop through Lop Nur is the Loulan ancient city ruins.
Loulan Ancient City Ruins
Loulan is a small country on the ancient Silk Road. It is located in the west of Lop Nur. It occupied an extremely important position on the ancient Silk Road. Today only ruins remain.
According to research, Loulan was founded in 176 BC and suddenly disappeared mysteriously in 630 AD, lasting more than 800 years. Loulan was first seen in "Historical Records". It was a small country in the Western Regions. It was built on the edge of Yanze, with a city wall. "Yanze" refers to Lop Nur. When the Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu wrote "Hanshu", Loulan had 1,570 households with a total population of 14,100, and the capital was named "Dani".
Wei Yuan said, The person who discovered the Loulan ruins was a Swedish Sven. He arrived in Lop Nur for inspection in February 1895. In September 1899, Sven began his second trip to the Taklimakan and continued to the Lop Nur Desert at the eastern end of the Taklimakan.
The ruins of the ancient city of Loulan in the morning
On March 29, 1900, Sven discovered the ancient city of Loulan while looking for a lost shovel. In March 1901, he excavated the ancient city. And the country name "Loulan" was translated from the cultural relics discovered...
On this day, 15 travel friends visited the Loulan Museum and each slept in a tent at night. When I woke up on the morning of the 18th, the team leader Wei Yuan was missing from the tent. Everyone looked around and found Wei Yuan sleeping soundly in an ancient Loulan house.
Everyone was shocked. He hurriedly pushed Wei Yuan to wake up, only to find that he was holding an ancient wooden token tightly in his hand.
Let’s line up all the ancient wooden tokens. The seven tokens have exactly the same style and wood grain font! Everyone looked at the line of official script inscription: "There is an old friend from Yangguan in the west". They were all puzzled and their thoughts were running wild.
Wei Yuan said with a smile : Today we are about to arrive in Ruoqiang County, and the entire Lop Nur crossing activity will be over. During this trip, we not only enjoyed the topography and landforms of Lop Nur, but also recorded the geography, history and culture of Lop Nur. More importantly, we also received seven suspenseful ancient wooden tokens. I propose that each car collects one token and I collect the rest.
Everyone still needs to think: Who gave the token? Is the "old friend" the mysterious deceased person in Lop Nur, or is it ourselves? As soon as he finished speaking, everyone suddenly understood and immediately rushed forward and hugged Wei Yuan tightly.
Dear readers, who can solve the mystery of the seven ancient tokens? ( About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer, has published 42 novels and other various monographs, written more than 200 episodes of TV series, and created dozens of TV films on history, culture, scenery, documentary and other topics, and has appeared in various newspapers and periodicals Published hundreds of articles and more than a thousand online articles)
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