The first month of traveling in Kashgar, Xinjiang, the sky was high. The sky is exceptionally blue and the trees are so vigorous that no matter how many cars are running on the street at the same time, it feels like there is still a huge patch of unused space.
Desert oasis
Looking at Kashgar from above, one can really feel that it is a typical ? desert oasis? city. Clusters of bright green see through the mud-colored complexes, and the lakes look as if they have been bleached by the sky. It is hard to imagine that for thousands of years the people of this place lived in the desert sand. A few decades ago, Kashgar was no? city? The whole city was like a huge countryside, with simple paved roads only in the places with a large flow of people. Low-rise bungalows were built haphazardly along the roadside, with no planning at all. Kashgar was nothing like today's small buildings and neat alleys, and it really became beautiful from the construction of the park we are talking about today. Kashgar first park?
The first park
was constructed in the city of Kashgar. The first parkKashgar People's Park, the first park in Kashgar, has a history of nearly 70 years, in the evolution of Kashgar's recent history, it has been the default Kashgar people? back garden? This is the largest comprehensive park in Kashgar at present, and the scale of this urban garden is second to none in the whole of Southern Xinjiang. The roads here are neat, the green area is large, there are special cleaning maintenance, repair and cleaning, park seats at any time to go are kept new and clean. Unlike city parks, which are mainly used for sightseeing and recreation, Kashgar People's Park is a place to get up close and personal with the real life of the Uyghur people in Kashgar. I personally define it as a ? Humanities Observatory?
Humanities Observatory
In other places in Kashgar, it is difficult to meet larger-scale entertainment activities, but in the Kashgar People's Park, it can be seen. Almost every day at a fixed time in the afternoon, people living in the urban areas of Kashgar will flock here from all directions, early? occupy? on the place, rubbing their fists and waiting for the next upcoming program. There is an open-air dance floor where Uyghur friends will gather in circles around the flower gardens, singing and dancing.
The Uyghurs are a multi-talented people, and almost every girl in this ethnic group knows how to dance. After tea, people often play a song on their cell phones and dance to simple sound effects. In Kashgar, many small children in the homes of ordinary people grow up in such an environment.
But more often than not, people like to get together in groups of many, many people. Uighurs naturally like to show off.
In Kashgar People's Park, especially around this open-air dance floor, you can see Kashgarites of all ages and states.
Most of the time they are focused on the entertainment in front of them, and when you call out for someone on the dance floor, they will reach out and invite you to **** dance.
Kashgar's largest integrated park
Leaving the dance floor and heading inside, you find that the park is actually quite large. A stone and brick road is straight and wide, with sycamore trees on the side of the road reaching up to the sky with open arms like big umbrellas, and lots of small stalls lined up on both sides underneath the trees, where children run around.
Looking along the direction of the children running, is a large children's playground, carousel next to a small roller coaster, bouncy castles to shape a variety of colorful children's facilities.
There are some man-made landscapes next to the children's playground, and about the interior are some adventure,? Ghost Cave? and other entertainment programs, I did not go in to play, they are required to pay a separate fee.
While we were walking along the path, retired Uyghur uncles wearing four-pointed flower hats were also taking a stroll, they would come here every day to have a look around, and occasionally come together to chat and play cards.
The trees in Kashgar People's Park are distinctive, each of them as tall as a few stories, and there are more than 50 varieties of trees of all kinds, in different shapes and sizes.
Over the past hundreds or thousands of years, these plants have been well protected, or the people of Kashgar have not purposely tried to? protect? them, but rather instinctively lived with the plants naturally and in harmony.
During my travels in Kashgar, I found that the Kashgarites are a group of people who love flowers and plants, and they plant all kinds of brightly colored flowers and plants in front of or in the yard of almost every house.
Even if you live in a relatively remote village, even if your home does not have a yard, facing the dirt road, but also flowers.