Yancheng Secret Realm: The "Wizard of Oz" Hidden in the Yangtze River Delta

Yancheng is actually not just a city related to salt,

She is also looking at a window on our planet.

One of the Secret Realms: Wonders

The ancient Yellow River and Yangtze River once flowed eastward into the sea from here.

Rivers, land and sea for billions of years

The intertwined "tidal forest",

It's like a tattoo on Earth,

What unknown mystery does she hide?

Secret Realm 2: Wonderful

The ancient east-west river movement

Providing a resting place for the migration of migratory birds from north to south today.

This is a perfect encounter between time and space, heaven and earth, and living beings,

How does she have a never-ending password?

Secret Realm Three: Fantasy

Located in the Yangtze River Delta, which is the most pulsating city,

Surprisingly, after Ali and Nagqu, Yancheng has,

The third dark night starry sky protected area in China, Wild Deer Swamp.

Looking up at the sky amidst the dance of cranes and the chirping of deer,

What kind of tranquility will she give us who are rushing around?

Secret Realm 4: Miracle

Yancheng, whose GDP has exceeded 700 billion yuan,

It is the only one in the country that owns

"World Natural Heritage Sites" and "International Wetland Cities"

A fairy city with two international business cards.

The reality is busy and tense,

Here are the poems we long for and the distant places.

A grain of sand was picked up on the shore of the Yellow Sea today,

Perhaps it originated from the Tanggula Mountains ten thousand years ago.

Modern geographic research shows that,

This mudflat wetland in the Yellow Sea,

The Qiankun movement, which once traversed the long sea, land, river, and river.

This used to be the mouth of the ancient Yangtze River,

After thousands of years of erosion,

Large tracts of sediment under the action of tidal currents

Gradually forming sandbars of all sizes;

Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River has seized the Huai River several times and entered the sea,

Causing a significant increase in sediment along the coast of northern Jiangsu,

Nurturing suitable for the growth of various benthic organisms

Silty silt mudflat wetland.

Overlooking the seaside of Yancheng from above,

The long sandbars stretch out like giant dragons crawling towards the sea,

The towering sand ridges are arranged in a huge fan shape,

The rolling waves gradually sinking into the Yellow Sea.

This majestic sandbar,

Starting from the mouth of the Sheyang River in the north and extending to the northern part of the Yangtze River in the south,

It is 200 kilometers long from north to south and about 140 kilometers wide from east to west.

If we talk about the changes of ancient rivers and rivers

For the spectacular "giant fan" along the coastline

Provided "building materials",

The tides of the ocean are like creative artists,

Never stop waving the natural knife,

Engraved with a unique and charming seaside landscape.

In the area of Jianggang in the east of Yancheng,

The offshore tides obstructed and reflected by the Shandong Peninsula,

Meeting and colliding with advancing tidal waves from the Pacific Ocean.

Year after year,

The cyclical rise and fall of tides

Occasionally revealing winding and winding sand ridges,

Like towering trees lying horizontally on the beach,

Branches connect land and sea,

Forming a tidal forest extending towards the sea.

Some of these "tidal trees" have water depths of up to 20-30 meters,

A giant ship capable of traveling 100000 tons.

They are always covered by seawater,

Like a hegemon hiding deep in the forest.

Some are also very approachable,

Just like "hair twigs" swaying with the ebb and flow of the tide.

They are not only on the mudflat

The most active and exciting landscape,

It's also on the coastal wetland

The indispensable "blood vessels" and "nerves".

According to the International Convention on Wetlands,

Seawater bodies with a depth of no more than 6 meters during low tide belong to wetlands.

Among the more than 500000 hectares of coastal wetlands in Yancheng,

The branches of these "tidal forests" are stretched arteries,

Shouldering the intertidal wetland and the open sea

Exchange of substances, nutrients, and energy,

Nourishing various shallow sea and beach life.

Yancheng people like to drive the sea and pat the sea,

Spectacular sandbars and mysterious "tidal trees"

And the diverse coastal flora and fauna,

Often frozen in the camera of Yancheng people.

The joint breeding of land and sea

Respecting life and valuing nature,

Flowing in the veins of the city.

In late summer and early autumn,

The annual autumn migration of migratory birds

The curtain has already begun.

In August, the spoon billed sandpiper with the code "EJ"

Arrived at Tiaozini, Dongtai, Yancheng, Jiangsu as scheduled.

Every year during this season, this "old friend"

They will all leave the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia

Fly to Southeast Asia for winter,

The flight distance is as long as eight or nine thousand kilometers.

In the past 5 years, it has chosen to rest in Tiaozi Mud.

Although only the size of a palm and weighing only 30 to 40 grams,

But spoon billed sandpipers can fly continuously for over 2000 kilometers.

At the long-distance migration "transfer station" Tiaozini,

Spoonbilled sandpiper, a critically endangered bird with only about 600 remaining worldwide

First, you need to eat crazily.

Spoon mouth, sweeping to eat,

Some people describe them as "eating like a little pig.".

At the same time, they also need to be replaced with light gray wintering feathers here,

Prepare for the cold.

Before and after the frost, they will fly to wintering areas one after another.

These spring and autumn seasons are between breeding grounds and wintering grounds

Migratory birds migrating back and forth,

Take off for survival throughout one's life.

"No migratory bird can fly in a straight line"

The cruelty of migratory birds:

The journey of thousands of miles is full of life and death challenges.

Global migratory birds have explored nine major migration routes,

The East Asia Australia migration route that passes through China

It's the most crowded one,

It is also the most abundant among rare birds.

Yancheng is located in a critical area along this migration route.

Every year, over 3 million migratory birds migrate through,

Here, molting and foraging,

About 100000 more will overwinter and reproduce here.

Cranes, storks, and egrets with slender and ethereal figures;

A gull with a sturdy and adorable physique;

And including the spoon billed sandpiper

Small, agile, and abundant migratory birds of the sandpiper class;

And some other birds

As the western coast of the Pacific and the edge of the Asian continent

The largest coastal wetland in terms of area,

Today, with the extensive destruction of migratory bird habitats,

This place appears extremely precious

——Not only does it have the world's most unique radial sand ridge group,

There are also a series of mudflats and swamps,

It is a rare harbor for migratory birds.

On a cold winter day,

Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland Rare Bird National Nature Reserve

A group of red crowned cranes can often be seen passing by in formation.

A loud and resounding singing echoes in the vast wetlands.

Due to superior conditions,

In recent years, there have been 400 to 600 red crowned cranes annually

Choose Yancheng as the wintering ground.

Now the cranes dance in the sky here,

Let's start with a true story.

Over 30 years ago, Xu Xiujuan traveled from Heilongjiang to Zhalong

Bringing two red crowned crane eggs to Yancheng,

Realize the hatching of red crowned cranes in low latitude wintering areas.

More than a year later,

But she searched for the lost white swan,

He sacrificed his life at the age of only 23.

The sea breeze rustles the reeds,

The grasslands and swamps of the Yellow Sea Wetland in Yancheng are endless.

The rising sun falls on the coast,

The wolf tail flower on the mudflat opens into flower spikes,

Under the sunlight, the footprints of elk hooves on the mudflats are clearly visible.

The scene of cranes dancing and deer singing, which has long disappeared,

Appearing again on this land.

Elk, like humans,

In the long geological age,

Appearing in the fourth period of the Earth.

The elk, which has lived in China for millions of years,

Once at its peak, its quantity rapidly decreased thereafter.

At the beginning of the 20th century, elk became extinct in China.

In 1986,

39 elk deer returned from England to the shores of the Yellow Sea.

This rare animal

Return to its original place.

It has wide soles and well-developed hanging hooves on the side,

Suitable for walking on muddy ground.

There is a tendon between the toes that is used for swimming.

Its tail is very long,

Mosquitoes that can be used to bombard wetlands.

Its face is also a bit long,