2024年4月12日发(作者：伏妙之)

HEAVENLY LAKE (天池)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This moring, we are going to visit a special place where the immortals have

their longevity banquets--The Heavenly Lake. The Heavenly Lake also called

"Tianchi in Chinese. 110 kilometers from Urumqi City, and we need 2 hours ride on

the highway. It is a high-mountain lake located in a valley on the northern side of

Bogda Peak 1,910meters above sea level. The surface of the lake is wide, about 3

kilorneters from south to north and 1 kilometers from east to west and 8

kilometers in Circunterence, covering the areas of 3.4 square kilometers, Some

snowy peaks stand towering around the lake, with their white and silvery

reflections in the water. looking splendid. Water of the lake always keep sky blue

and the deepest point of the lake is 102 meters under the water. When you stand

on the tops of the surrounding mountains and look down at the lake, yoy can have

a bird's eye view around the lake. You can see beautiful landscapes . luxuriant pines

and firs reaching to the sky, and shutting out the sunshine, Canpets of green grass

wild flowers growing on the slopes, flying birds twittering in the forests.

In the year 1971 when the Chinese famous scholar Guo Mo-ruo(郭沫若)came

to here, he was impressed by the charming of the lake and wrote: "There is a pool

of dark ink filling the bottom of an ink- stone, there are thousands of woods with

long hairs erecting their tips of the writing brushes." It added the fame on the lake

and let. more famous people visit here every year.

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In the summer, it is cooler than what is in Urumqi city, and attracts the tourists

here for their summer resort. In Winter, the Heavenly Lake is also an idea high-

mountain skating place, the winter here lasts as long as 7 months. The surface of

the lake will frozen to 80 centimeters thick, and you can image how the local

people drive their big truck's on the lake. Until the May, the ice in the lake begins

to melt and the melting snow in high mountains runs into the lake.

There used to have some ancient buildings built around the lake, such as

Fushousi' Temple and Tiewa (iron tile Temple in the Qing Dynasty, the Wangmu

Monastery at the northern bank, etc. Only have the Wangmu Monastery rebuilt

later.

Since ancient times, there have been many ' legends la about the Heavenly

lake. Formerly, the Heavenly Iake was called Western Wang Mu's jade lake. The

Goddess Wang Mu once held a "Grand Banquet of Flat Peaches' here. The book of

"Biography of Emperor Mu" recorded a song about that the Western Wang Mu

appointed the attendants to come here again. It wents: white clouds are in the sky,

mountains alternate with rivers on the earth. If you are still alive. you will come

here again. These wonderful legends had made the Heavenly Lake acquire a color

of mystery and wonder. Look at that elm tree on the northern bank of the lake, its

calleded "magic needle" tree. Legend has it that the tree came from the Western

Wang Mu's hair pin, its magic power can suppressing the mountain and the lake to

avoid the black fish demon from stirring up the water. (The story can be told by

tour guides themselves )

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2024年4月12日发(作者：伏妙之)

HEAVENLY LAKE (天池)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This moring, we are going to visit a special place where the immortals have

their longevity banquets--The Heavenly Lake. The Heavenly Lake also called

"Tianchi in Chinese. 110 kilometers from Urumqi City, and we need 2 hours ride on

the highway. It is a high-mountain lake located in a valley on the northern side of

Bogda Peak 1,910meters above sea level. The surface of the lake is wide, about 3

kilorneters from south to north and 1 kilometers from east to west and 8

kilometers in Circunterence, covering the areas of 3.4 square kilometers, Some

snowy peaks stand towering around the lake, with their white and silvery

reflections in the water. looking splendid. Water of the lake always keep sky blue

and the deepest point of the lake is 102 meters under the water. When you stand

on the tops of the surrounding mountains and look down at the lake, yoy can have

a bird's eye view around the lake. You can see beautiful landscapes . luxuriant pines

and firs reaching to the sky, and shutting out the sunshine, Canpets of green grass

wild flowers growing on the slopes, flying birds twittering in the forests.

In the year 1971 when the Chinese famous scholar Guo Mo-ruo(郭沫若)came

to here, he was impressed by the charming of the lake and wrote: "There is a pool

of dark ink filling the bottom of an ink- stone, there are thousands of woods with

long hairs erecting their tips of the writing brushes." It added the fame on the lake

and let. more famous people visit here every year.

1 / 3

In the summer, it is cooler than what is in Urumqi city, and attracts the tourists

here for their summer resort. In Winter, the Heavenly Lake is also an idea high-

mountain skating place, the winter here lasts as long as 7 months. The surface of

the lake will frozen to 80 centimeters thick, and you can image how the local

people drive their big truck's on the lake. Until the May, the ice in the lake begins

to melt and the melting snow in high mountains runs into the lake.

There used to have some ancient buildings built around the lake, such as

Fushousi' Temple and Tiewa (iron tile Temple in the Qing Dynasty, the Wangmu

Monastery at the northern bank, etc. Only have the Wangmu Monastery rebuilt

later.

Since ancient times, there have been many ' legends la about the Heavenly

lake. Formerly, the Heavenly Iake was called Western Wang Mu's jade lake. The

Goddess Wang Mu once held a "Grand Banquet of Flat Peaches' here. The book of

"Biography of Emperor Mu" recorded a song about that the Western Wang Mu

appointed the attendants to come here again. It wents: white clouds are in the sky,

mountains alternate with rivers on the earth. If you are still alive. you will come

here again. These wonderful legends had made the Heavenly Lake acquire a color

of mystery and wonder. Look at that elm tree on the northern bank of the lake, its

calleded "magic needle" tree. Legend has it that the tree came from the Western

Wang Mu's hair pin, its magic power can suppressing the mountain and the lake to

avoid the black fish demon from stirring up the water. (The story can be told by

tour guides themselves )

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