胡杨堪称“沙漠勇士”。维吾尔人说它“长着不死一千年、死后不倒一千年、倒下不朽一千年”。如今这种古老的树种,在世界上除北非一带的干旱荒漠中尚有少量外,主要分布在我国新疆的塔里木盆地内。在塔克拉玛干沙漠边缘,共有上百万亩的原始胡杨林,成为“死亡之海”中一道亮丽的风景。 Populus euphratica is called “Desert Warrior.” The Uighurs said it “has a thousand years of immortality, will not lose a thousand years after death, and will die for a thousand years.” Today, this ancient tree species is mainly distributed in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, although there is still a small amount of arid desert in the world except in North Africa. At the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, there are millions of acres of original Populus euphratica forest, which is a beautiful scene in the “Sea of ​​Death”.