Although there has been frequent flooding in China recently, you would not have thought that the desert in China would also experience flooding.
Recently, the Taklamakan Desert was flooded, and as much as three hundred square kilometers of the desert area was turned into a sea. Sinopec's 30,000 sets of equipment were also flooded, causing heavy losses.
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although there has been frequent
flooding in china recently
you would not have thought that the
desert in china would also experience
flooding
recently the taklamakan desert was
flooded and as much as 300 square
kilometers of the desert area was turned
into a sea
simulpeck's 30 000 sets of equipment
were also flooded
causing heavy losses
cinopec is the world's largest oil
refining
gas and petrochemical conglomerate
headquartered in beijing
according to its official release the
combined heavy rainfall on july 19
coupled with the snow melt in the
tianshan mountains this summer
led to a seasonal flood that hit sinapex
oil fields in the northwest
turning a desert into a water town the
taklamakan desert
located in the tarum basin in southern
xinjiang northwest china
is the largest desert in mainland china
the average annual precipitation
usually does not exceed 100 millimeters
with a minimum
of four or five millimeters it might
sound good to have a large amount of
water come to the desert
however in traditional chinese culture
this is a very unlucky sign
a natural phenomenon that goes against
the norm known as omens
it foretells a significant change in
land or a country
in the year 2021 an increasing number of
omens have appeared in mainland china
dunhuang was struck once again by a
powerful sandstorm
creating an orange red sky like what one
would see in a movie
this is another sandstorm in dunhuang
after the one on july 25
however there is no official media
coverage in china
so
chinese people seem to be used to
sandstorms but they are usually yellow
red sandstorms are very rare red skies
have also been seen in the city that
just suffered a major catastrophe
zhengzhou
after the flooding in zhengzhou on july
20 its sky turned blood red in the
evening
the red color lasted for 10 minutes
before slowly dissipating
on july 24 2021 the night sky in the
flood-stricken area of hennan province
was filled with anomalies
a red blood moon appeared in two cities
the day before on july 23
a major river in the province broke its
banks flooding many villages and
farmlands and causing heavy damage
in the city of xinmi the flooding
claimed many lives
the city of zhengzhou seems to have
received more than one such hint
on the chinese new year in 2021 an
unusual celestial event
occurred in zhengzhou
the night of february 2021 in zhengzhou
henan province
saw a rare encounter between heavy snow
and rolling thunder
the chinese folklore called it thunder
striking snow
during the most important festival in
china the chinese new year
a festival that heralds the end of the
old in the beginning of the new
the thundering is considered an ominous
sign that disease
or disaster will occur for the year
the video shows that the river is
flowing in the opposite direction
because
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river located in the upper reaches of
the yangtze river
its origin which is also the origin of
the yangtze river
comes from the tangula mountains in
qinghai the water of the jinsha river
flows backward
which also means that the water of the
yangtze river flows backward
yangtze river is regarded as the mother
river of chinese people
so it means a lot to the chinese
rare clouds filled the sky some people
said they were mamatos clouds
and others thought they were earthquake
clouds however
more people commented that they had
rarely seen such a large area of
strangely shaped clouds
generally speaking animals can sense
danger earlier than humans
and a mass departure of animals is
usually a sign
that something terrible is likely to
happen
foreign
this is a farm market on what was
supposed to be a hot summer day
but the vendors are putting on winter
clothes to ward off the cold
in traditional chinese culture flying
snow in june
is a sign of significant grievance and
injustice it would appear in places
where such injustice is committed
in may and june 2021 people in several
chinese cities have seen
flying snow
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this soup is not a normal phenomena it
became surprisingly popular
last summer in zhengzhou the same city
that experienced the major catastrophe
in 2021
in hindsight it is somewhat remarkable
thousands of people
lined up for a drink of the soup and at
one point the scene
got out of hand it is a local person
dressed up as meg poe
selling mengpo soup according to chinese
folk beliefs
meng po is the caretaker of oblivion and
the elderly goddess of the underworld
meng po soup is the soup for ghosts who
are on their way to the underworld
after drinking the soup ghosts will
forget all the memories of their past
lives before reincarnating into the next
life
the soup is something that only exists
in the underworld
traditionally both the emperor and the
people regarded heaven
as the ultimate supremacy if people act
in accordance with heaven
and do good deeds heaven will show
auspicious signs
and the earth will be abundant the wind
and rain will be favorable and the
country will be peaceful
if people act against heaven and do bad
deeds heaven
will send down bad omens and the earth
will suffer from drought
floods and civil unrest the agent
would predict the future of the country
based on weather divination
chinese historical records have shown
that heaven and nature would show
unusual signs during dynastic changes
the ancient chinese also have a saying
when things are out of the ordinary
demons are present
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so why is the presence of mengpu soup
considered so unusual
there is a prophecy book from the qing
dynasty titled
the eight immortals of the way of life
the eight immortals described eight
mortals from the tang dynasty over one
thousand years ago and how they obtained
the dao
and became divine beings representing
eight different groups of people
men women old young rich
poor highborn and low-born they have
since been regarded as the prominent
representatives of
taoism
the book described a future scene where
the power of the ghosts
is so great that men will learn from
them it is horrifying to say
but they are a footnote to the word
chaos it claimed
that in 1 000 years there would be a
great power of ghosts in the land of
china
and the people of the world would learn
the behavior of the ghosts which was
very frightening
when it happened it meant a time of
moral degradation
which signified that the real great
turmoil was imminent
given so many anomalies it is also a
warning that the world is changing
stealthily
and that something big will happen in
china