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Poplars are a desert plant with great vitality, which are said to live for a thousand years, stand for another thousand years after death, and not rot for a final thousand years before crashing to the ground. Their leaves are also very strange: At an early age they’re like needles, in middle age are white like birch leaves and in old age are ellipse shaped. The Grotesque Woods are actually formed by a large forest of dead poplars. Juyanhai Lake is shaped like a crescent moon, and mainly supplied by the Ejina River.