Kucha, Xinjiang Academy of Ga Ha Kizil Grottoes heat sealing Rahman wood care workers provide
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18 years, and for the protection of cultural heritage, in the vast Gobi, in the This was the meeting point of four great civilizations, his fear of a bad environment, suffer in silence alone, a guard has 1600 years of history of the caves. He is the Research Institute of Xinjiang Kucha Ga Ha Kizil Grottoes care workers provide wood heat co-Rahman.
Rahman wood put together to see the heat (on the map. Our reporter Han Liqun photo), how caves and imagined keep people not on the number. 1.75 m tall, medium fat, thin, very spiritual person. Black hair, a bit messy. I asked, born in 1972. Guardian of his own Kuqa County, Xinjiang Kizil Grottoes Ga Ha was 18 years.
roots
out of Kuqa County, north west front line, across the Gobi desert. About 12 km away, they came to the national key cultural relics protection units Ga Ha Kizil caves. Accompanied by the researchers, told reporters in Xinjiang Kucha, caves dating back over 1600 years of history, the Silk Road’s most important Buddhist cultural sites.
grotto built in the midst of wind erosion on the landscape. A valley a few bifurcation points, jagged hills, full of grass. Gust of wind blowing, blowing loess. Scattered on the cliffs studded with 54 caves. Heat Man holding a bunch of keys,wow gold, took us to see holes. He would rarely, walking in the various obstacles on Rulvpingdi. 18 years, Heat Man to go once or twice a day, one by one to check every door is locked, see if there are strange footprints, sweep in front of the sand, whether it was overlooking the car tracks. Trip down, take two to three hours.
Heat Man is the fourth caregivers. A former, only did three months, it did not spade.
1993 September Kucha Research Institute found the villagers in the eyes of honest and reliable heat sealing Man. At that time, he had just graduated from high school. Generations of farming father happy for his son:
Heat Man living room is very simple. Two rooms, a wooden door, the bed has a radio, a few newspapers. A stove in the room, a storage bucket. Corner puzzle had a cement pond, is used to store water. Lying on a windowsill old-fashioned kerosene lamps. A lonely person’s life, he sometimes accompanied by the radio playing dance music in the night alone.
by Green
Kizil Ga Ha water,wow gold, no electricity. There are two elm grotto entrance, which is unique within a radius of several kilometers of green. Brother Abdurixit a week to send a donkey cart with water. Heat Man himself as little as possible that all of the remaining used for watering elm.
southern people for generations by green space and health.
So, father and sons began to shovel and pickaxe dug wells, minus 20 degrees Celsius weather, they wear a Mianshan, also straight away sweat. The more digging down, the sand mixed with gravel harder bite. Pickaxe, shovels have to change a few days. Nearly half a year later, wells deeper and deeper, there are already 31 meters, three long wooden ladder need to be tied to in the end. But never any sign of water. Reluctantly abandoned wells, dug wells, but they use the sand and gravel, laying out a gravel road. More than a piece of ground in front of the vehicle to stir up the sky when the sand much less.
Heat Man started digging trees, and plan out the water ditches. Father and brother with donkey cart pulled hundreds of mulberry trees, peach trees and elm, carefully planted, and then a few kilometers away from a truck to pull the irrigated trees. Hard work pays off. Branches slowly spit out green shoots. Early one morning to a group of Gazelle actually competing to chew this rare food. Heat Man laughed. Because it was
However, the summer one, the temperature reached 46 degrees Celsius, on the ground as flaming. Pits irrigated to a truck, the blink of an eye gone. Soon, all the seedlings gradually dried up. Heat Man feeding 30 chickens are starting to die. Lonely fear of his brother, younger brother from the village led to a dog. Surprisingly, the dog not stay, one night, the chain broke away and ran away.
Heat Man for the first time shed tears. Desert, but only the Heat Man and two trees.
love
However, there is no water Kizil Ga Ha, the girl is kept in place. Heat Man married in 1997, four years later, women would take the kids to leave him. Village people often laughed at him: they look after.
Kuqa, the center of the ancient Kucha country. Great Masters Ji said, Kucha is ancient India, Greece – Roman, Persian, Han and Tang civilization in the world where the only intersection. Heat slowly love Man here. He likes the flying murals, he can tell the shape of each flying characteristics. Has a very high artistic and research value of the 30 caves in the care he took music to flying is a favorite. Someone to visit him in the back just to listen, to see. He understood from the A, hollowing, crisp base and some technical terms, but also through the percussion sounds of the different cave wall paintings to determine whether the damage. He learned Chinese, or even know a few Japanese.
2007 years of a night, the wind comes up. Heat Man faintly hear the voice of cave door. He hastened to inspect the cliff,wow gold, do not want to kick Caikong, heavy fall, a broken leg, lying in the hospital for a whole three months. For nearly seventy years of age his father in the cave keep a full three months.
2008, the China Heritage Fund will be And a happy thing falls. Thanks to a man named Abbey Wood female primary school teachers became his bride, who is hospitalized in the leg during the heat sealing understanding of Man, Kizil Ga Ha girl finally left. 2012, the caves will be connected to electricity, installation of monitoring equipment. Man 18 years accompanied by heat sealing the kerosene lamps will fade into history, he also will reduce the labor intensity.
are part of the culture, are valuable, even if a little lost, do not complete. no one to protect, how to pass it on to future generations? This is my first job, will be the last one!
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