The daily temperature difference in Xinjiang is also very large. As the saying goes, wear cotton-padded jacket early, yarn at noon and eat watermelon around the stove. The annual average temperature is 13.9℃, and the days with high temperature above 35℃ are more than 100 days. In summer, the extreme high temperature is 49.6℃, the surface temperature is above 70℃, and the highest record is 82.3℃. The locals are known as "roast chicken eggs in the sand nest" and "toast on the stone".

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Turpan is an important town on the ancient Silk Road. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were human activities six or seven thousand years ago. At that time, Turpan people were mainly hunting and gathering. After entering the slave society, the mode of production gradually changed to agriculture and gradually settled in Turpan Basin.

According to the records of historians, the aborigines living in Turpan Basin were ancient teachers. They established Gushi (later called Cheshi) country, Huhu country, Xiaojinfu country, Cheguo country and Chewei country in Turpan Basin. During the Western Han Dynasty, Xiongnu in northern China controlled most of the Western Regions and invaded the Han Dynasty.

In the third year of Jianyuan (BC 138), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to unite with other countries in the Western Regions to break the Huns' "right arm". The land of Gushi is an important channel for developing the western regions, and its strategic position is extremely important. Therefore, the Western Han Dynasty and Xiongnu waged a long and repeated struggle for "Gu".

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