Chengdu plain

The Chengdu Plain ( Chinese  成都平原 , Pinyin Chéngdū Píngyuán ) is a plain in Sichuan , People's Republic of China . It is located in the west of the Sichuan Basin . The eponymous city of Chengdu is the largest settlement in the plain . The Chengdu Plain is also called the Chuanxi Plain or West Sichuan Plain ( Chinese  川西 平原 , Pinyin Chuānxī Píngyuán ). In ancient literary sources and in the native Sichuan dialect ( 四川 話  /  四川 话 , Sìchuānhuà ), this level is also known as "Cuanxi-Bazi" ( Chinese  川西 壩子  /  川西 坝子 , Pinyin Chuānxī Bàzǐ ). Sometimes this region is poetically referred to by locals as “Tianfu Pingyuan” ( Chinese  天府 平原 , Pinyin Tiānfǔ Píngyuán  - “paradisiacal plain”).

In the west it extends to the Qionglai Shan Mountains west of Dujiangyan , in the east to the Longquan Shan ( 龍泉 山  /  龙泉 山 , Lóngquán Shān  - "Dragon Spring Mountains") near Jintang , in the north to the Jiuding Shan ( 九 頂 山  /  九 顶 山 , Jiǔdǐng Shān  - "nine peaks mountains") in Mao County , in the south to Xiongpo Shan ( 熊 坡 山 , Xióngpō Shān  - "Bear Slope Mountains") near Xinjin .

literature

• Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5

See also

• List of Chinese levels
• List of Chengdu Plain Bronze Age archaeological sites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cihai , p. 204

Coordinates: 30 ° 28 '  N , 103 ° 54'  E