Xinjiang Tianshan Spring Water
6 min readXinjiang of the Original Taste and Flavor
The blue sky and clean water in Xin jiang create the delicacies of Xinjiang. These authentic delicacies, for their originality and purity, add many unforgettable taste memories to Xin jiang. The water on the plateau, the milk on the grasslands, and the field tastes on the table, are the musts you shall experience if you come to Xinjiang. Let’s together enter into these taste memories!
Good Water Shall Come from the Heaven
When it comes to Xin jiang, drought, less rainfall, desert, sand wind, infertility and the like may come into the minds of many people. It is true that though occupying 1/6 of the Chinese land area, Xinjiang has no euphemism of misty rain and plum rains in succession like the regions south of the Yangtze River, or the gorgeous high and steep mountains and serried green bamboos like Yunnan-Guizhou; however, just on this land, there exist the most abundant sunlight, the richest minerals and the cleanest air of the whole country, and high mountain snow melt with the highest quality throughout the world. You will not feel the noise of the metropolises, you will not hear the roaring of the modern machines, and you will not see the neon light glittering in the deep night; here, you can find the most original impulsion, smell the eternally immutable flavor, and taste the “holy water”coming from the heaven. The water here-the Pamir glacier mineral water, is a charity of God.
Pamir Plateau is the polar region of western Xinjiang, with an average elevation of above 5,000 meters. It lies on the due west of the Kashgar city, Xin jiang, on the southwest of which are the Kongur Mountain and the Muztagata Mountain, and its west point is close to the Qarokul Lake of Tadzhikistan. The Kongur Mountain and the Muztagata Mountain are known as the “Father of the Glacier”, and are always the mountaineering resorts. Pamir is the most difficult and mysterious section of the Old Silk Road. There is a folk song here:”January, February, March, snow blocks the mountains; April, May, June, rains drench the heads; July, August, September, walking is just fine; October to December, it begins.”July to September is the golden season for visiting the Pamir Plateau. Pamir Plateau belongs to the Arctic climate, and it is a powerful center of the contemporary glaciations; it owns more than 1,000 mountain glaciers, and also has a distinct vertical variation of naturallandscape. Here, the tourism resources are rich, the natural landscapes are unique, and the climate ecology is diverse. The Muztagata Mountain here is magnificent and spectacular with a height of 7,546 meters, and it is covered by snow all year round. On the foot of the mountain, there are odd rocks and strange stones, exotic flowers and rare herbs everywhere. Fountains, hot springs, lakes and pastures ornament the snow land and valleys. Stone City, Princess Castle and other ancient culture relics intersperse among the towering ice mountains. Stepping into Tashkurghan will make you enjoy yourself so much as to forget to leave.
Pamir Plateau belongs to freezing intense continental alpine climate, especially the east Pamir, which is more continental. Here, the winter is very long(from October to April the next year), the elevation is about 3,600 meters, the average temperature in January is -17.8℃, the absolute lowest air temperature is -50℃, the average temperature in July is 13.9℃, and even the highest temperature will not exceed 20℃. Because of the high mountains stopping the moist air current from the west, the annual precipitation here is only 75-100 millimeters, and the Qarokul basin is much less, which is only 30 millimeters. The west
Pamir owns many east-west parallel mountains，where mountains are high and valleys are deep，and the vertical variation of the climate is very significant.The moist air mass from the Atlantic Ocean is stopped by the high mountains，and it rises along with the slope and cools down，then congeals into fog at a height of 2，000-3，000 meters with mass of rainfall，so that the annual precipitation of the windward slope of the mountains can reach 1，000 millimeters，while the valley has only 100-200 millimeters.
The particular geographic feature and hydrologic condition create the cleanest mineral water in the world-mineral water of Pamir glacier.Pamir is one of the three clean water sources in the world，and the ancient glaciers are frozen in the lower strata，which has not exchanged with the air or the sea water for tens of thousands of years.After the ice and snow melting，the water flows along with the deep underground water vein into three “everlasting springs”in Tashkurghan Ta jik Autonomous County with a height of 3，200 meters，where the water is bottled into Pamir ancient glacier mineral water.This inherent cleanness together with the osmotic force and alkalescency vested by the natural mountains magnetic field make the Pamir glacier water earn the good reputation of”the scavenger of the internal environment of the human bodies”.As the Muztagata Mountain locates in the Pamir Plateau，where the environment is quite special，the mineral water produced here possesses the characteristics of”rare，precious，natural，and healthy”，which is really an admirable healthy drinking water.
According to statistics，in Xin jiang，China，there were 51.75 centenarians among every 0.1 million people（1982）.In 1985，Xin jiang was listed as one of the four longevity areas in the world by the International Natural Medicine Association，among which，the Tashkurghan Tajik Autonomous County on the Pamir Plateau is with the longest longevity.
Most waters freeze at 0℃ and a few waters can still flow when the temperature is lower than 0℃，but it is rare that there is a kind of water which does not freeze when it is not flowing at-8℃.Put an unopened Pamir ancient glacier mineral water into an environment where the temperature is-8℃，the water in the bottle will not freeze.But if you open the bottle cap and sway the bottle body，the water will rapidly freeze into ice.
This is profiting from the activity of the mineral water itself.Due to the perennial magnetization，the molecular groups of the Pamir ancient glacier mineral water break up into very small molecular groups which are constituted by 5-7 water molecules，and the form super strong activity，and will not freeze even at-8℃.These molecular groups are also the most beneficial component for human bodies.
For what reasons do we say that the Pamir glacier mineral water is different from the rest？It is mainly reflected in the”five supers”，which are super cleanness，super mineralization，super magnetization，super osmotic force and super alkalescency.Justbecause of the”five supers”，the Pamir ancient glacier mineral water owns stronger capacity to neutralize the intracorporal acidic hazardous substances than the ordinary water.A bottle of glacier water is just a bottle of intracorporal purification water.”super cleanness”-the Muztagata Mountain is the farthest place from the four oceans.The extremely cold climate in the high mountain with a height of 7,000 meters makes the glaciers all come from the icebound tens of thousands of years ago. The underground water flowing from the deep layer of the glacier to the mountain foot has not been exchangedwith the air and sea water for thousands of years, which keeps the cleanness before the human civilization came into being. Therefore, the Muztagata Mountain glacier water ishonored as the “water on the holy mountain”.”super mineralization”-the ancient earth crust deposited lots of elements to the Pamir glacier mineral water which are beneficial to human bodies, among which, the rare element strontium can not only strengthen the skeleton, soften the heart and cerebral vessels, promote the upgrade of the testosterone level, but also prevent the human body from absorbing sodium excessively(mainly sodium chloride, which is salt); the metasilicic acid is an element which can soften the vessels; the calcium can improve the cardiovascular functions; and the magnesium can strengthen heart function and make people calm down.”super magnetization”-having gone through millions of years, the natural magnetic field forming in the Muztagata Mountain magnetized the glacier water which also has a life of tens of thousands years, and the magnetizedwater has auxiliary functions of composure, analgesia, antiphlogosis, sleep improvement, and intestines and stomach adjustments.”super osmotic force”-the small molecular group structure of the Pamir glacier water makes the water molecules easier to penetrate the cell membrane channels of the human cells, and then go deep into the cells for the deep metabolism of the internal environment, which makes the intracorporal purification more thoroughly.
On a full moon night, standing on the Pamir Plateau alone, feeling the prosperity of theancient Silk Road, there is a kind of desolation penetrating your back. In the boundless snow land, the mountains accompanied with the wonderland. Of the holy water drops, the ice and snow coagulated with the nimbus. Such immortal drinking must come from the heaven.
