For hundreds of years, there has been a story in Chang family: In the spring of the 23rd year of Qianlong, Chang Wanda personally led a camel team to deliver tea to Qiketu. Suddenly, the desert became windy and yellow sand rolled, covering the sky and the sun. The camel team was afraid of being buried in the sand dunes for a while, so they walked in the sand for six or seven days, only to know that they had lost their way and had drunk all the water they had brought, and there was no oasis anywhere. What's more, they can't even tell the direction.
At this time, the leader of the humpback camel suddenly got up and ran. The leading camel is the soul of the camel team. If you lose it, the consequences will be even more unimaginable. Chang Wanda led people to chase the humpback camel and chased it out for three or four miles. The male camel stopped suddenly, sniffed at the sand thoughtfully, sniffed for half an hour, and began to dig sand with his front feet again. Moreover, no matter how the camel driver shouted, he refused to stop. I suddenly realized that there must be groundwater in this place, so he took a shovel and dug it up desperately. Everyone also helped. The male camel hissed, and when he dug more than eight feet deep, he really saw the wet soil. Then he dug down, and a clear spring finally gushed out and quickly overflowed the ground. The relief along the direction turned into a small pool, shaped like a crescent moon. Chang Wanda named this pool "Crescent Spring"
Everyone was saved, and after another day, the wind finally stopped. Under the starry sky, Wanda often determines the direction, only to know that this is the nearest route from Kulun, which is now Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, but before there was no water here, people were afraid to go.
Later, this route became a special tea transportation line from Zhangjiakou to Cullen, and the male camel looking for water at that peak was carefully fed by Chang Wanda as a hero in the old ship of Dade Fishing. Several years later, the male camel died. Chang Wanda buried it next to the crescent spring and set up a tombstone engraved with the word "God Camel". After 200 years from Changwan, Changjia no longer runs the tea business. Every time Chang's camel team comes here, they burn incense to thank the camel god.
This legendary story reflects the bitter course of entrepreneurs on Wan Li Tea Road from one side.
(Display: Camel Sculpture)