A hundred years ago, a winter evening, Mr Chen went to Inner Mongolia, he found spring in the way of Tugang. He climbed and found that the springs in the east and south formed pool. That night, he had pitched a tent for the night in the spring. He told the story of the spring to Lama after reached the grassland, and Lama let him lead the way to see, and built Mongolian yurt on the highest point of Tugang. Next spring, Mr Chen took his wife and children once again came to the spring and settled down. He built a house with grass block and sand near the water, planted tree and vegetables around 5 acres of garden. He built a little temple with broken stone on ruins, and then named Miaomiao lake where only lived his family.

　　After several decades, Chen became a big herdsman. The last century 50's the people's commune, his 800 cows and 5 acres of garden are classified as public, he himself died in prison. Until the last century 80's, the garden was returned to his children. The small temple he had built has ceased to exist, and his There are grassland and desert in Miao Miao Lake. The desert is the source of Maowusu desert. Chen began to plant trees hundred years ago, the second generation returned to Miaomiao Lake to graze, the trees had grown up, people according to rules continued to plant trees. They bought trees by selling oxen and sheep, because the South Spring had dried up, the other water resources reduced, they relied on donkeys and horses to carry water and watered the trees. Every time the tree they planted in the desert, only 1/3 can survive, and control force was very weak.

　　Finally one year, someone bought ten thousand acres of desert around the lake to manage, but the boss was unable to continue after planted hundreds of trees. After more than ten years, the trees were withered.

　　Another year, a man named Wang Hengxing came here. Wang Hengxing didn't go to school because their parents died, when he kept sheep in Helan mountain in childhood, he borrowed the book of nephew to learn knowledge, he was chief of the people's commune in youth, and proposed to control the desert. When he came to the Miaomiao Lake, Wang Hengxing had been approaching seventy years. He could not bear to look at this piece of desert, and then invested huge amounts of money to manage the desert. A few years later, the desert in Miaomiao Lake had been controlled, formed Ningxia's first set of ecological farming village, Tibetan Buddhist culture, desert places of entertainment and four star hotels for the integration of leisure resort --Miaomiao Lake Ecological Tourism park. The largest monastery Lingquan temple was invested about 10000000 yuan, which was rebuilt on little Lingquan temple. Later, the old people had written "the soul of desert", the writer is Chen who dropped out of school and had ever kept sheep in Miaomiao Lake.

These shadows let me see how to cultivate life and soul in Miaomiao Lake, to understand significance of desert.