When you come to the village of the Luobo people, you will first see Abutan Square. "Abudan" in the Luobu dialect is rich in water and grass, suitable for human habitation means, this is the place where the Luobu people have been living for generations.
The Robb people are one of the oldest ethnic groups in Xinjiang, they live in the Tarim River on the side of the small sea (sea: desert lakes), "do not grow grains, do not animal husbandry, but only with a small boat fishing for food", for thousands of years they are isolated from the world, and now, the desert is only left with a small number of the "last Robb people". Nowadays, there are only a few "last Robes" left in the desert. They make a living by fishing and hunting by the riverside in the desert, keeping their primitive customs and habits, and their lives are full of mystery.
The Robb people have no concept of money, just barter. Robo people's material living conditions are extremely poor, but their adaptability is very strong, as the so-called "rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to eat the water", they rely on the waters of the Lop Nur and the surrounding wetlands and its primitive poplar forests to flourish and thrive.
Deserts, lakes, rivers, grasslands ....... Such a pale and atmospheric landscape, coupled with the primitive and mysterious ancient customs, makes the village of the Lop people once exposed, has become a mysterious zone that many travelers are eager to explore.
The Robb People's Village Visitor Center.
In order to facilitate the tour also opened a special tour bus, into the village sitting in the car, not only full of tall poplar trees, clear and pure sea, more can look away from the sand dunes and the Gobi, the unique Luobu region of the bleak and magnificent as far as the eye can see.
The village of the Robb people has a variety of Robb region's characteristic architecture inherited for thousands of years. Houses, wedding houses, altars and so on, each of which is full of primitive and mysterious, as if telling you an ancient legend of the Robb people.
This is a one hundred and fifty million years ago fossilized poplar tree, the descendants of the Luobo people Abdu said: this is the Tarim River poplar tree grandfather grandfather .........
Into the village, you will see a tree upright poplar. The Luobu people regard the poplar as a "holy thing", this kind of tree in the vast desert, the root system can be rooted dozens of meters deep into the ground, the achievement of the thick trunk and tenacious vitality.
"Born and a thousand years do not die, die and a thousand years do not fall, fall and a thousand years immortal!" There is only this one species of tree - the poplar tree - in the Robbian villages inside and outside.
Poplar, seems to be born to fight drought, but wherever there is a bit of water in the desert can be seen in their figures. This plant has withstood the test of time, adapted to the natural law of natural selection, honed the unyielding fighting spirit and immortal soul.
The "crooked-necked" poplar tree at the entrance to the yard. Almost all the tourists see this tree, will come to embrace it to take a picture, at least will touch, over time, the bark is touched bright!
These plaques are inscribed with articles praising the poplar tree.
This is the beacon flint, beacon flint that beacon platform, military facilities. After the Western Han unification of the Western Region, in order to protect the borders, escort messengers, business travelers to and fro, to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road, in the traffic on the road to repair a lot of beacon flint. When encountered military situation, the daytime smoke, fire at night, one station to pass one station, thousands of miles of rapid transmission of news.
Step into the village, a five or six meters high huge naan pit on the side of the road, the pit wall painted with "the first pit in the Western Region" or "the first big naan pit in the Western Region," the words, the people of Xinjiang have the habit of eating naan.
Stepping into the village of the Lobo people, is a typical Lobo family mansion, the village has more than 20 villagers, almost all of the old and middle-aged. And even more surprising is that the village age of over a hundred old people have as many as 5, 6 people, more than ninety years old people more than ten people, other people's age is also more than 60 years old.
Robbian folk culture village scenic spot on the door as wearing a hat, on both sides of the fish-shaped totem. Robb People Village Scenic Area originally had a few families of Robb people living, and later moved to it. This is a folk village built according to the living and living, cultural practices of the Robbs. Now their living, cultural practices through the guide's explanation of the tourists can know a little.
The Robb people, living by the water and grass, nature and history, the Robb people village into a mysterious and make people long for the place.
Nowadays, although the village still follows the old traditional style, but it has been fixed. With logs and straw as the main material, the construction of the village still retains a strong original flavor of the Robb people.
Longevity is a major feature of the Lop people, because they live in the more remote area of Lop Nor, away from environmental pollution, many centenarians. Although the old state, but not deaf, eyes do not spend, thinking clearly, optimistic, open-minded, bold, can still hear the music dance, singing.
These old people are sitting on the ground, their mouths are chattering words that you do not understand, and their hands are still making the local traditional handmade wooden utensils.
The Tarim Green Corridor is the largest green corridor in China. At the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, between the Tarim River and the Peacock River, a large sea of poplar forests, rooted along the lake, guards the thousands of miles of wind and sand in the Tarim.
China's longest inland river, known as the Tarim "mother river" of the Tarim River flows through here, and the desert forms a natural wonder.
The Tarim River nourishes all the living creatures along its banks, and it is only in the desert that the importance of water is y realized. Nowadays, the Luobu people no longer rely on fishing for a living, but also into the era of civilization, the primitive tribes into the past.
Along the way will also pass through some of the sea, when the breeze is light, the air fine soft sand with the wind. This is the second largest desert in the world, the northernmost edge of the Taklamakan Desert, and to the south, it is a vast expanse of yellow sand.
The Goddess Lake is the largest sea in the Luobo village, which resides in the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert roadside, as if the sapphire inlaid in the desert. Goddess Lake lake water throughout the year, blue water, blue sky, the vast sea of yellow sand, especially enchanting, beautiful.
The lake is equipped with wooden trestles, which can be walked along the lake to view the scenery, and can also be used for fishing and boating.
Goddess Lake lake water clarity, visible to the naked eye small fish fish flying shallow, the edge of the desert to give people a sense of ice and jade, sacred and awe-inspiring.
Robo people hollowed out the thick poplar wood, making a canoe. When Robo water abundance, into the lake insert fish. Song support high up inserted into the lake, a big fish will be stabbed and brought up to fall into the boat, all so natural, wonderful.
Standing in the Luobo village to look out, all the boundless desert, this place does not belong to the center of the Taklamakan Desert, but it is also considered the depth of the desert, and its surrounding dozens of kilometers there is no village or home. Therefore, the range of the Robbian village reached 72 square kilometers of large, if simply on the size of the area, is absolutely "the first village in western China!
The village of the Robb People has a golden color and a vast desert.
The Taklamakan Desert is the largest desert in China, the tenth largest in the world, and the second largest flowing desert in the world. It is also the second most mobile desert in the world. The sand dunes in the desert are long, and are often moved by the wind, making it one of the five most beautiful deserts in China.
Climbing up the dunes, you can see the sprawling Taklamakan Desert with undulating sand dunes stretching endlessly, where you can ride a gentle camel to walk on the edge of the desert and see the beautiful sand sea landscape.
The types of sand dunes are complex and varied, with composite sand hills and sand ridges that look like giant dragons resting on the ground, and tower-shaped dune clusters that present a variety of honeycomb, feathery, fish-scale dunes that are unpredictable.
The desert is too hot, hot people do not sweat light oil.
By Li Jinglu