古老的塔里木河,来到若羌县北面的阿尔干时,出现了一个大转弯,河水由原来的流向东南转向了正南。“阿尔干”是维吾尔语“转弯分叉”之意,这个地名命得既科学又符合塔里木河的实际情况。当地的维吾尔族文里和他的从公安局退休的年过七十的父亲,给我详尽地讲了他们在阿尔干一带居住时的情景和亲身经历。阿尔干的过去环境和今天的比较,使我们都陷入了深深的思考……阿尔干在五十年代还是一片水乡泽国,到了六十年代水位开始下降,七十年代地表开始干涸,八十年代大片胡杨树开始死亡。30多岁的艾里说:他在阿尔干塔里木河中抓过鱼,拾过蚌壳,这里有二十几户以鱼猎为生的人家。七十年代初河水变成了泥滩,泥滩变成了干沙滩,上百斤重的大鱼忍受不了无水的煎熬而钻进了沙子里找水喝,它们含着悲愤死去,这些大鱼死 When the ancient Tarim River came to Arjun in the north of Ruoqiang County, there was a big turn and the river turned from southeast to south. “Arkan ” is the Uyghur language “turn forks ” meaning, the name of life is both scientific and consistent with the actual situation of the Tarim River. The local Uighur literary man and his 70-year-old father, who retired from the Public Security Bureau, gave me a detailed account of their situation and personal experience while living in the Argan. Arkan’s past environment and today’s comparison, so that we are deeply into thinking ... ... Arkan in the fifties or a water country, by the 1960s the water level began to decline, the seventies surface began to dry up, the eighties Large poplar trees began to die. Airy, who is in his 30s, said: "He caught fish in the Ali River in the Tarim River and picked up the clam shell. There are more than 20 dozen people who fish for a living. The early seventies into a mudflat river, mudflats into a dry beach, a hundred pounds of heavy fish can not stand the waterless suffering and got into the sand to find water to drink, they contain grief and indignation, these large Fish died