ANCIENT KAREZ WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OF TURPAN, WESTERN CHINA
One of the ancient world's greatest civil engineering feats.
Karez Canals | Ancient Underground Water System [Turpan / East Turkestan / China]
Karez systems are the crystallization of ancient people's diligence and intelligence. At its peak, this irrigation system exceeded 5,000 km (3,106 miles) and was also referred to as 'the underground Great Wall'. It is among the three ancient major irrigation projects with the other two being Ling Canal and Dujiangyan Irrigation Project.
Karez systems are the life source of Turpan. In a sense, without them, there would be no Turpan culture. According to records, the history of the karez in Xinjiang dates back to 103B.C. Currently there are still over 400 systems.
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Turpan, Xinjiang - karez canals 新疆吐魯番
Turpan, Xinjiang 新疆吐魯番
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Karez systems are the crystallization of ancient people's diligence and intelligence. At its peak, this irrigation system exceeded 5,000 km (3,106 miles) and was also referred to as 'the underground Great Wall'. It is among the three ancient major irrigation projects with the other two being Ling Canal and Dujiangyan Irrigation Project.
Karez systems are the life source of Turpan. In a sense, without them, there would be no Turpan culture. According to records, the history of the karez in Xinjiang dates back to 103B.C. Currently there are still over 400 systems.
Karez are very delicate irrigation systems made up of vertical wells, underground canals, above-ground canals and small reservoirs. Generally, a karez is 3 km (1.9 miles) with the longest being 20 to 30 km (12-19 miles) with several dozen vertical wells. Sometimes the number of vertical wells exceeds 300. Until today, the shortest karez found is only 30 meters (98 feet) long. The vertical wells are for ventilation, digging and maintenance of the karez. The bottoms of all the vertical wells are connected so that water can pass through. The underground canal is about 2 meters (6.5 feet) high and covered with earth to resist the heat. The surface canals, connected to the underground ones, are not more than 1 meter (3.2 feet) wide with trees planted on both sides to prevent evaporation.
Melting snow from the Tianshan Mountain is the water source of the karez. Water is collected by vertical wells and conducted by the underground canals to the oasis, where the water is held in the ground canals for irrigation. The vertical wells near the water source may be 100 meters (328 feet) deep while further downstream they are less than 10 meters (32.8 feet) deep.
Karez
Karez irrigation system in Tulufan, Xinjiang province, China.
A vast and ancient underground network of water channels feeds the town and fields, creating a lush oasis.
This water allows the native Uyghur people to grow crops (notably grapes).
The system involves hand-dug wells and underground channels designed to store the water and control the flow. Vertical well shafts dug at regular access points tap into the water flow from distant mountain springs.
Tulufan is located in the second deepest geographical depression in the world.
The climate is dry with temperatures ranging from -20c in the winter to +50c in the summer (it was +46c on the day this film was made!)
This Ingenious System Brings Water to the Chinese Desert
The Karez is a modern-day engineering marvel and a prime example of a native people working with, not against, the forces of nature to deliver their needs - in this case, water.
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연간 강수량이 20mm가 채 안 되는 곳에서 물 관리는 무엇보다 중요하다. 카얼징 박물관에는 이 지역만의 독특한 물 관리 역사가 전시돼 있다. 수맥을 찾아 땅굴을 파서 만든 지하수로가 그것이다. 지난 2천년 동안 모두 5000km에 달하는 지하수로가 만들어 졌다고 한다. 박물관 지하에는 실제 사용된 지하수로가 잘 보존돼 있다. 거미줄처럼 연결된 지하수로는 물의 증발을 막고 부족한 물을 효율적으로 공급할 수 있는 시스템이다. 투루판은 이 지하수로 망을 통해 오아시스 도시를 건설하고 실크로드의 중심으로 부상할 수 있었다.
[English: Google Translator]
Water management is where the annual rainfall is 20mm less than it is of paramount importance. Car eoljing museum has gotta unique water management of the region history exhibition. That will have to find a water vein underground tunnels created by the parser. The jyeotdago made all groundwater is nearly 5000km over the past two years. There is an underground museum gotta groundwater used real well preserved. Ground is connected like a spider's web is a system that can effectively prevent the evaporation of the water supply for the lack of water. Turpan is an oasis city built over a network to the groundwater and could become the center of the Silk Road.
[Chinese: Google Translator]
水资源管理是那里的年降水量为20mm小于它是非常重要的。汽车eoljing博物馆已得该地区历史展览独特的水管理。这将不得不寻找解析器创建一个水脉的地下隧道。作出一切地下水jyeotdago几乎5000公里在过去的两年。目前使用的地下博物馆总得地下水真正保存完好。接地连接象蜘蛛网是一个系统，可以有效地防止水供应缺乏水的蒸发。吐鲁番是建立在一个网络向地下水的绿洲城市，可能成为丝绸之路的中心。
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■클립명: 아시아037-중국12-10 카레즈 박물관, 수맥을 찾아 만든 지하수로/Turpan Water Museum/Karez Museum/Subsurface Irrigation/Oasis/Silk Road
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Located in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Turpan, which was called Gaochang in ancient times (from 328AD to 1275AD), is an important place on the Silk Road. Lying in the Turpan Basin, it is at the lowest-elevation anywhere in China. Recently, it has become a tourist hot spot of Xinjiang with its unique landscape, abundant historical relics, and fertile farmland.
Protecting Ancient Wells in China
- Since ancient times, people in the Turpan Basin of China have relied on the well system known as Karez to provide water.....but no longer.
Turpan Fair
It's a fair in Turpan. Local women are making Uyghur flower hats by hand.
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The Memories of Turpan 吐鲁番的记忆
The second episode The Memories of Turpan
In Turpan, different races and cultures used to live together in peace, and there are masterpieces of religious art, they are all precious heritage of world. Although this film could represent the old good time of Turpan, the regrets is irreparable.
不同的种族和不同的文化曾经在吐鲁番和睦相处，宗教艺术曾经在这里留下了惊世杰作，这种文化现象是珍贵的世界遗产。尽管我们可以用影像还原昔日的绚丽，但是对吐鲁番来说，巨大的遗憾却是无法弥补的。
#New Silk Road
The NHK`s 80th anniversary documentary series New Silk Road was co-produced with CCTV in 2004-2005. For presented the past, the present and the future of Silk Road to audience, the producers drove SUVs along the Silk Road to visited local residents, and verificated many cultural relics.
该片作为日本广播开播80周年的纪念节目，于2004年至2005年与CCTV合作制作。制作方以朴实无华，脚踏实地的采访作风，几辆越野车，几台摄影机，走遍丝路，用文物的考证来解释过去的方法，用采访镜头来论证解说词观点的手法，将丝路的过去，现在和未来展现在观众面前。
The Memories of Turpan 吐鲁番的记忆
The second episode The Memories of Turpan
In Turpan, different races and cultures used to live together in peace, and there are masterpieces of religious art, they are all precious heritage of world. Although this film could represent the old good time of Turpan, the regrets is irreparable.
不同的种族和不同的文化曾经在吐鲁番和睦相处，宗教艺术曾经在这里留下了惊世杰作，这种文化现象是珍贵的世界遗产。尽管我们可以用影像还原昔日的绚丽，但是对吐鲁番来说，巨大的遗憾却是无法弥补的。
#New Silk Road
The NHK`s 80th anniversary documentary series New Silk Road was co-produced with CCTV in 2004-2005. For presented the past, the present and the future of Silk Road to audience, the producers drove SUVs along the Silk Road to visited local residents, and verificated many cultural relics.
该片作为日本广播开播80周年的纪念节目，于2004年至2005年与CCTV合作制作。制作方以朴实无华，脚踏实地的采访作风，几辆越野车，几台摄影机，走遍丝路，用文物的考证来解释过去的方法，用采访镜头来论证解说词观点的手法，将丝路的过去，现在和未来展现在观众面前。
Uyghur Karezes Documentary
Chinese scientists call it The Underground Great Wall. Karez is an underground water system. Peoples digged beveled underground tunnels and bringed snow water far away from mountains to the desert where they were living. The karez was created for Jiaohe antique city. Today it is the world's utmost ruins of soil city. The whole city is underground. The humanity ignored karez and Jiaohe for centuries. However these are wonders of civilization. The people who invented the system had a culture of long standing. The people consecrated nature and mummified their deads. The karez system required an advanced engineering and great organization. How functions the system which transforms the desert into a forest? Who and when constructed the system? This culture effected The Silk Road and was spread far away both in east and west.
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