Altay
Altay is a place which
belonged to Hun in Han Dynasty, it belonged to Turki
in Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, belonged to West Liao
in Song Dynasty, was a place of later king of Mongol
Wokuotai tribe, Mongol and Kazakh nomad tribe here in
Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, Kbuduo and Altay is self-governed
managed respectively in the Guangxu 32th (1906),set
up the amban, directly under the jurisdiction of center
regime of Qing. It was renamed Altay handle-affairs
official in Mingguo period, it belonged to Ashandao
in Xinjiang in 1919,set up Ashan special office in three-region-revolution
period. Then it was renamed as Altay special office
in 1954,now it is called Altay region.
Altay locus has been a place where many nomad nationality
moved about. Lama of lead the soldiers --Hutuktu. gungzhalacan
founded the Chenghua temple here in 1871,people began
to settle down here, was called Chengyan Town. It became
into station of later Altay handle-affairs official.
It belonged to Ashan special district in 1911,after
Ashan belonged to Xinjiang, it was called Ashan special
office in 1919.Chenghua county was founded in 1921.It
was renamed as Altay county in 1954,was renamed as Altaty
city.
Places of Interest
Nort lake
It lies in Nort mountains east of Altay
mountains in Qinghe county in IIli Kazakstan autonomy
state. Strange mountains are high up in the air,
pure white snow, silvery light irradiate. Pine
and cypress are evergreen, flowers and grass are
flourish by the lake. Lake water is clear like
mirror, the sun and the moon and stars in the
sky, strange and sheer mountains around the lake,
flowers, grass and trees mirror in the lake, is
a tourist attraction of passing the summer in
leisurely day.
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Kermuqi stone
people and grave It lies in Kermuqi of 12 kilometers
southwest of YIli Kazakstan autonomy state Altay
city, there are over tens stone people and stone
casket, they were tomb bury of nomad nationality
from War kingdom period B.C to the 6th to 7th
century. They can were divided into two types:
single tomb bury, this form is smaller, some stone
caskets stands stone statues; double casket has
rectangular stone wall which was built by pieces
stones, it is over 10 meters long, stone casket
is in the stone wall, it is symmetrical in the
left and right, stone stands before stone wall,
also standing stones, stone people has one generally,
also have two or four standing side by side, they
stand and face the east ,Figure is small, early
sculpt is simple, carving by negative line, later
sculpt is basso-relieve mainly, its sculpt has
been developed, you can look at finery and extremity
obviously. Excavated culture relics have stone
cluster, bony chain, stone jar, gallipot; there
are bony ornamental, iron sward, etc, and have
the phenomena of burring with dead.
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Altay Birch Park
Located in the Kelan Valley which is 2Km to
the Altay city.It is only half a square kilometer
in are.The place is divided into several islands
by the river.There are many kinds of birch trees
here.It is peaceful and quite place for the local
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Fuhai Butterfly Valley
60 Kilometers to the NorthEastern Fuhai,there
is a beautiful valley which the local Kazak named
Kubelikbulak ,means butterfly spring.
The valley lies in the middle range of the Altay
Mountain,there is lush grassland, clear water
as well as beautiful flowers.In June and July,
there are thousands of butterflies flock here,they
cover the 60 square kilometers valley.There are
various species of precious butterflies.It is
still one unanswered mysteries why there ther
are so many butterflies flock here. |
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Halongala Mountain Hot
springs
Llies in north of Fuhai county, height above
the sea level is about 400 meters. There are 17
springs. Spring have different colors and different
temperature. Temperature of thermal spring is
about 34 degrees, temperature of hot spring is
about 60 centigrade or so. Halongala Mountain
Hot spring have different features. Flood spring
is red like flood, silvery spring have strings
of blebs like silvery bead; there are little frog
in the frog spring; snake spring, look at from
the entrance, there are several little snakes
in the bottom. There are heart spring, cold spring,
milk spring, warm spring, etc more. Thermal spring
have good curative effect for skin disease, rheumatoid
arthritis, neurasthenic, etc. Here climate is
cool, air is fresh, is a deal place of recuperate
and prevent sun stroke, at present, there are
roads.
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Jiashihalagai Prairie
Located 60km to the Northwest of Altay city,it
is 1900-2400meters above sea level.here you can
not only enjoy the beautiful rural scenery ,but
also can you experience the Kazak nomadic life
as well visiting the goldmine. |
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Altay Petroglyph corridor
Fluctuant Altay mountains, east from Qinghe
county to western Jmuni, Habahe county, there
are rich ancient rock painting in stretch in an
unbroken chain 1,000 kilometers interlaced rock,
are singular ancient rock painting gallery in
the world. The content of rock painting is very
extensive: have abundant shapes of animals, such
as sheep, cattle, horse, camel, deer, dog, wolf,
etc; have scene of people lived, such as hunting,
grazing, dancing, religionary movement, and so
on. These rock paintings are similar to rock painting
which were found in Mongolian Yinshan mountains
wolf mountain region and Black mountains of Jiayuguan
Pass in Gansu province; are accord with animal
grain design in Qing and Han period in Shanxi
in behavior form and art style. these cliff paintings
was produced by Sais two thousand years ago by
primitive textual research originally, then were
added by past dynasties nomad nationality ,are
reappearance of life of past dynasties nomad nationality.
These rock paintings include rock carving and
rock drawing, although many rock paintings are
eroded by wind and rain ,by now they are still
clear and visible.
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Blunto Lake
Blunto Lake is called Wulungu lake. It lies
in northwest of Fuhai county in IIli Kazak autonomy
state, confluent of Wulungu River. Area is 827-square-kilometer,water
depth is 5--10 meters generally, height above
sea level of water surface is 468 meters. Bulrush
is very flourish, field and grassland are wide
around the lake. lake water is a little salt,
marine lives is abundant, there are, carp, perch,
crucian, etc. Mist-covered water is vast, color
of water is the same as the sky, there are often
pelagic swans, flying seagulls, fish-boat and
voice of oars. Lake water ice over in winter,
chisel a hole to going fishing, having a unique
sentiment. Because of charming and gentle scenery,
is also called "bright pearl of Junggar". |
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Silver Water-Ertix River
Ertix rive r is the only river in China
which flows to Arctic Ocean.It is originated from
the Northern slope of Altay Mountain.From the
root to the waterhead to the border is about 546km,and
its drainage area is 57000square Km.Around the
river ,there are many kinds of poplar trees.It
is considered the Gene Base of poplar trees. |
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Sand Lake
located in the habahe county,the area is
only half asquare kilometer.It is surrounded by
mountain,where there are birch and cypress.The
scenery changes with the seasons,in July,there
are lotus grown on the lake,and there are alos
wild geese . |
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Kanas Natural Reserve
Kanas natural reserve lies in the north of the
Burjin county, is a all round natural sight region
reserve, its total area is 5,558 square kilometers.
Within this region reserve, there are headstrem
of two big branch of Erqis River--Burqin River
and Habahe, there is the highest peak in the Altay
mountains--Friendship apex which is 4,374 meters
high. There are 374 agent flickering glacier,
the longest Kansa glacier, is 10 kilometers long.
These melt water brought up the Kanas natural
sight reserve.
Kanas natural sight region reserve is made up
of green muddy quartzite, powdery sandstone, quartzite,
etc, and mica of Haixining period, is a classic
ladder transect mountain, the mountain's height
has very big difference,vertical natural sight
is very obvious, from the foot of the mountain
to top, there are seven national sight regions,
namely black calcium earth meadow grassland region,
hilly country gray and black taiga belt, hilly
float taiga belt, subalpine meadow belt, alpine
meadow belt and permafrost belt, etc. Complicated
landform physiognomy and natural sights provided
favorable conditions for various animals and plants'
survival. This place a unique distributing region
of Siberian animals and plants north of ancient
Europe in our country, there are about one thousand
kinds of plants,thirty-four sorts of animals,
over one hundred sorts of birds, seven sorts of
ReptIlian amphibian, over three hundred kinds
of insects, eight kinds of fish. Wood have high
and big arbor like Siberian larch, Siberian spruce,
Siberian red pine, Siberian fir, and so on, they
blot out the sky and ward off the sun, composing
the characteristic virgin woods, it is the existent
most integrated woods in aboriginality. The trees
strew at random orderly in woods, high and big
arbor have two and three meters different height'
wild rose, gooseberry, honeysuckle and spiral
Siberian climates. There are also lichen, Siberian
clematis and bilberry, etc. various colorful wild
flowers covered whole mountain outside the woods,
red peony and erberry flowers, blue myosotis,
big funnel flowers, yellow canary-creeper, flower-de-luce,
white dependence flower, black aconitic flower,
there are birches, Altay poplars, red poplars,
gray poplars, Sayan willows, etc along the ravine
and valley.
There are various animals in different height
in woods, rare red deer, snow leopard, grouse,
cabrite, thunderbird, tree frog, black bee, white
butterfly, etc.
There is a Kanas lake in the center of region
reserve hilly country forest. Kanas lake is made
up of the huge compound glacier in the second
ice age, now there are many relics of glacier
around the lake, lake surface is 374 meters high,
lake is 25 kilometers long, and is 1.5--3.9 kilometers
wide, area is 37.7 square kilometers, is about
eight times of Heavenly Lake. The deepest water
level of the lake is below the 176 meters, water
quality the rate of mineralization is about 0.2
or so, in July and August, water temperatures
over 200 degrees, margin of temperature in the
day and at night is 12 centigrade or so. Lake
water flux is about 50 cubic meters per second,
variational height surface of lake is not overrun
50 centimeters. Because of steady water capacity,
the bank of lake is very placid, swamp plant is
very flourish, so it becomes a ideal place where
fish and water bird spawn and raise up seeds,
there are many rare fish in the lake.there are
rare birds like swan, black crane, etc in summer
in the lake.
The term "Kanas" belongs to Mongolian
language, means beautiful, rich and mysterious.
Kanas Lake is very beautiful and , but has a mystery
surely. People observe the surface of lake in
different climate and different position, and
will find that water has different colors: overlook
the surface from mountaintop, water is dark blue
in fine days,and is gray green in cloudy days,
and is ivory with a little blue and green in summer,like
a crystal mirror in winter, so people also call
Kanas lake as "change color lake", it
is one place of the "mysteries". The
scond "mysteries" is: long long ago,
people of this region found that there was "bugbear
of lake" in Kanas lake. They often heard
strange voice in the lake and looked at very high
water column in the lake. What it is that did
mischief, people still haven't found out the fact,
its real reason which need exploring more.
Kanas is natural sight region reserve, whether
from the terms of genic type of species, natural
scenery, geologic physiognomy or the terms of
remains of ancient culture to look at, it has
very big scientific review price. |
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