The pine pond in Xinjiang
1 min readThe pine pond
The Pine pond is located at the north slope of the eastern Tianshan Mountains, crossing the junction Hami, Yiwu and Balikun, and it is about 75km away from the downtown of Hami; the annual average temperature is-0. 4C, and there is often the phenomena of snow.
in June, and frosting September. This region has a long history with many ancient cultural relics. Post houses and beacon towers were built in ancient times. Sima Renshang of Han Dynasty and Jiang Xingben of Tang Dynasty have made outstanding military exploit here The ruins of ancient pottery are quite discernable to the north of the Pine pond, and the patterns and shapes on the pottery residues are similar to those in Banpo Remains in Xi’ an Yue Zhongqi, the Ningyuan General of Qing dynasty once had built an army horse-breeding barn in the vicinity.
In 1984, an alpine ice rink was built here, covering an area of 46,000m”, two standardspeed skating rinks with the tracks of 400m are comparable to two jades mounted in the snow field, lying in parallel and shining the silver light. The dedicated water pipelines are constructed to introduce the spring water from Tianshan Mountains to water the skating rinks, so the ice surface is as smooth as mirror with fine ice quality and smoothness, and is free from pollution
