Why can you see a huge ear above the earth?

The hot word on the earth is nothing more than this word: black hole. According to scientists' explanation, the so-called black hole is a celestial body predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. According to Lu Rusen, a researcher at the Shanghai Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, black holes have super gravity, and even light cannot escape its influence. But as for the relationship between black holes and human real life, scientists can't give ready-made answers.

In other words, there is a black hole in the celestial body and people don't know much about it. So, is there a black hole on the earth? This not only reminds us of the mysterious Lop Nur. The mystery of Lop Nur's "big ears" originated from a satellite photo of Lop Nur published by an American academic magazine in the 1980s. Its image shape resembles the outline of human ear, with eight spiral lines, ear holes and earlobes.

Experts generally believe that this peculiar natural geographical phenomenon or peculiar geographical structure will help to understand the changing laws of atmosphere, hydrology and geology in Xinjiang in recent thousands of years. Ear is actually a dry lake basin in Lop Nur in different periods, while helix is the lakeside in Lop Nur in different stagnation periods, and ear hole is the last dry lake basin in Lop Nur. The lake basin contracts concentrically, and each contraction forms a spiral line.

The problem has been made clear, but some netizens don't think so. They think that this ear is used by the earth to receive space information, so it has become a "mysterious world" in their hearts and minds. Coupled with the Loulan beauty and Peng incident, this area has been heated up, which has made a certain market similar to Pisces and Ghost Blowing Lights. Today, we will talk about how Lop Nur became mysterious from the source.

In fact, we have no intention of pestering black holes, and we have our own understanding of big ears. However, when it comes to Lop Nur, it has become an unavoidable topic.

Loulan Beauty refers to a mummified female corpse unearthed by Mu Shunying in 1980, which was called "Loulan Beauty" in history. It is the earliest corpse found in Xinjiang so far, about 3800 years ago. Once this ancient corpse was discovered, it attracted great attention from academic circles and netizens. We think this is mainly because of these two reasons: first, Loulanmei; Second, the ancient country of Loulan mysteriously disappeared in the history of China.

Let's start with beautiful. Scientifically speaking, this woman was about forty-five years old when she died. Her height before her death was 1.55 meters, and now she weighs 10. 1 kg. Her blood type is O. When unearthed, she was lying on her back in a typical wind-eroded sand platform, and the top of the tomb was covered with branches, reeds, side horns and straw baskets. The found body was dressed in rough wool fabric and sheepskin, and his feet were wearing leather boots sewn with thick thread. The hair is more than a foot long and yellow-brown, and it is wrapped in a pointed felt hat with several feathers in it. The skin color is reddish brown and elastic, the eyes are deep, the bridge of the nose is high and narrow, and the chin is pointed, which has distinct characteristics of Europa race.

Her so-called beauty lies not only in her appearance, but also in her imaginary description by netizens and her recovery by scientists. Today, we can still find the description of the beauty of Loulan on the Internet. She is as beautiful as crystal. She didn't have many written records before her death, but after her death, she left the world with infinite space for reverie. She doesn't have much historical merits and demerits, leaving the world with an eternal beautiful topic ... Loulan, which is a mysterious and dreamy name. The incomprehensible legend of Loulan beauty is covered with a mysterious and beautiful coat ... It is said that Loulan women have enjoyed a long reputation on the Silk Road, so that all the princes and nobles in the western regions married Loulan women.

Coincidentally. Princess Xiaohe, who is almost contemporary with Loulan Beauty, also has the same "beauty". Swedish Volker Begemann found her: This is a young woman's face. This is the mummy of a young woman, wearing a pointed felt hat and her eyes closed slightly. Her lovely eyelashes stand upright like a row of small pine trees, covered with a layer of fine dust ... noble clothes, a pointed felt hat on her head, long black hair decorated with a red belt in the middle, and her eyes are slightly closed, as if she had just fallen asleep. Her beautiful eagle nose, slightly parted lips and exposed teeth left an eternal smile for future generations. This smiling woman, called "smiling princess" by Begemann, is also amazing.

However, what we want to say is that the body found in the body can be preserved for thousands of years and is still "beautiful", mainly because the climate in Xinjiang is dry and rainy, otherwise it would have become a glistening skeleton. And this also leads us to the theme of this article-ecology.

Xia Chengxun, a geographer and desert expert, has been a researcher and director of Xinjiang Institute of Biological Soil and Desert, China Academy of Sciences, and the leader of Xinjiang Lop Nur Comprehensive Investigation Team. Engaged in sand survey and geological survey for a long time. Editors' scientific investigation and research on Lop Nur and the mysterious Lop Nur provide scientific basis for correctly understanding the natural environment of Lop Nur and deeply studying the Silk Road.

Xia is also one of the discoverers of Loulan Beauty. When Loulan Beauty was found, she was wearing a linen trench coat and hoodie, and a cable belt was across her chin. This shows that the weather in Loulan area is hot and windy. People should consider the choice of linen-cotton blended fabric, which should not only prevent sand invasion, but also be breathable and sweat-proof.

After dissecting the mummy, Xia found dust in her lungs, and concluded that Lop Nur was dry and sandy 4000 years ago. Even more surprising, experts found lice and lice eggs in the hair roots, eyebrows and other places of the found body. The body shape of lice and lice eggs is complete, and the head, feet, teeth and external hairs of lice can be clearly seen under the microscope, which is very rare in the history of parasites and is the earliest preserved physical specimen in parasitology research in China.

What does this mean? In other words, Lop Nur was not only dry and sandy more than 4,000 years ago, but also people living there seldom took a bath because of lack of water and other reasons. Archaeology has proved that human life existed in Tarim Basin in Xinjiang at least10 million years ago. Obviously, in the era of Loulan Beauty, the local ecology was not optimistic. Two thousand years later, Zhang Qian came. Besides going to the Western Regions as we all know today, another important task is to explore the source of the Yellow River.

In China's ancient books, the Yellow River has two sources, namely "heavy source", one of which is what we call Lop Nur today. This point is explained in detail in Hanshu: "Its rivers have two sources, one is from Qingshan and the other is from Tan. At the foot of Nanshan Mountain, Khotan flows in the north of the mountain, flows into the Congling River, and flows into the Puchang Sea in the east. Pu Changhai, a famous salt shaker, traveled more than 300 miles to Yumen and Yangguan, covering an area of 300 miles. Its water pavilion, which does not increase in winter and summer, thinks that it is sneaking underground, and it is Huajiangyun because of the accumulation of stones in the south. "

According to the records in the Sixty-third Biography of Dawan in Historical Records, Zhang Qian reported his experience in the Western Regions to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty after he came back from his mission to the Western Regions. It was said that when people entered the Western Regions, they thought that the Tarim River was the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the east branch of the Tarim River flowed into Yanze (now Lop Nur), while the water of Yanze sneaked into the ground and only flowed out again in the south of Buda Mountain in southeast Borhan, becoming the Yellow River.

For this statement of Zhang Qian, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is about to be suspicious. Because, because he likes to worship the world's famous mountains and rivers, after Zhang Qian, he constantly sent envoys to explore the source of the river. In any case, the statement of "heavy source undercurrent" at the source of China River has been "frozen" ever since. Moreover, people think that the Yellow River and the Milky Way are interlinked, and there is a beautiful legend-Zhang Qianfan tea.

According to legend, if humans take the Mu Cha downstream, they may travel through time and space from the sea and air, go straight to the clouds to meet the cowherd and weaver girl, or go against the Yellow River to reach Tianhe. Zhang Qian was regarded as a master of interrogation by the tree, saying that he came to heaven by boat in Lop Nur, met the Weaver Girl, and the Weaver Girl gave him a piece of stone for weaving. Canon was later favored by official scholars and often used in literary creation. Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote a famous poem for this purpose: a sea passenger rides purple gas, and a star stops weaving and smelling. You should only be jealous of cows and talk about giving you machine stones.

Historically, the army of the Han Dynasty crossed this area twice and completed the expedition to the kingdom of Dawan, which not only brought back bloody BMW, but also made Dawan a vassal country of the Han Dynasty. At that time, Li Guangli was supported by more than 10,000 live cattle, live sheep and alpacas, and the army also lost more than half. The reason lies in the ecological deterioration of this area. If it is lush and suitable for human survival, Li Guangli can't pay such a price.

Fa Xian, a man who has been to Lop Nur, wrote: "There are many evil spirits in Shahe, and all of them will die in hot air." This sentence about ecology was later interpreted as "ghost blowing lights", without exception, it was strange and horrible, and it was difficult to distinguish between true and false, which made the mysterious fog of Lop Nur even more confusing. However, in Loulan, Fa Xian said, "The land is rugged and barren. The layman's clothes are the same as those of Han, but the carpet is different in brown. Its king obeys the law. More than 4,000 monks know about Hinayana. " It means that this place was already poor at that time.