Diancang Shan

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Diancang Shan
The Jade Cloud Street in Diancang Shan

The Jade Cloud Street in Diancang Shan

Highest peak Malong Feng ( 4122  m )
location Yunnan ( PR China )
part of Yun Ling
Diancang Shan (Yunnan)
Diancang Shan
Coordinates 26 ° 0 ′  N , 99 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 26 ° 0 ′  N , 99 ° 50 ′  E
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The Cangshan Mountains ( Chinese  苍山 , Pinyin Cang Shan ) or Diancang Mountains ( 点 苍山 , Diancang Shan ) is a mountain range in the northwest of the urban area of Dali in the southwest of the Chinese province of Yunnan . It is part of the Yunling mountain range ( 云岭 , Yun Ling ).

The mountain range extends for fifty kilometers in a north-south direction and is twenty kilometers wide. It is located to the west of Erhai Lake , between the lake and the Yangbi Jiang ( 漾 濞 江 ), the tributary of the Lancang Jiang ( 澜沧江 ). The mountain range has nineteen peaks ( feng ) and eighteen small rivers ( xi ) and many springs with crystal clear water. Its average altitude is 3500  m above sea level. The main peak , the Malong Feng ( 马龙峰 ), is 4122  m high.

The mountains form a beautiful landscape and have rich vegetation, which was documented by Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in 1882 .

"Clouds, snow, mountain peaks and small rivers" ( "云 、 雪 、 峰 、 溪" ) make up the four great views of the Cangshan Mountains.

marble

The Cangshan Mountains are famous for their marble , which has been processed there since the time of the Nanzhao Empire during the Tang Dynasty . It occurs on all nineteen mountains of the range. The rock belongs to the Precambrian Cangshan Group and, like the Cangshan itself, is part of the Yangtze Craton . Like many marbles, the material is slightly translucent, expressively patterned and veined.

Since the Tang period , based on these marble deposits, a marble processing industry has been established in the nearby city of Dali, so that Dali marble has been used in many important structures in China. Due to the popularity of Dali marble, the Chinese name for marble, dalishi ( 大理石 "Dali stone"), is derived from the name of the city. Even today, the extraction, processing and sale of marble objects is an important source of income for the region.

The white marble (bai dalishi 白 大理石 ), the cloud-gray (yunhui 云 灰 ) and various colored (chunhua 春花 "spring pattern " (green), qiuhua 秋 花 "autumn pattern" (brown-yellow) and shuimohua 水墨 花 "ink pattern" (black)) rank among the most precious marbles in China , according to the Digital Museum of Geosciences at Nanjing University . Shuimohua marble is considered to be the most famous and valuable of these. The grain of the sanded panels often look like landscapes painted with an ink brush, which, like Chinese landscape paintings, are often decorated with calligraphic texts.

19 peaks and 18 small rivers

The names of the nineteen peaks and eighteen small rivers are as follows:

19 peaks (from north to south): Yunnong feng 云 弄 峰, Canglang feng 沧浪 ​​峰, Wutai feng 五台 峰, Lianhua feng 莲花 峰, Baiyun feng 白云峰, Heyun feng 鹤 云峰, Sanyang feng 三阳 峰, Lanfeng feng 兰 峰峰, Xueren feng 雪人 峰, Yingle feng 应 乐 峰, Guandi feng 观音 峰, Zhonghe feng 中 和 峰, Longquan feng 龙泉 峰, Yuju feng 玉 局 峰, Malong feng 马龙峰, Shengying feng 圣 应 峰, Foxiang feng 佛 顶峰, Ma'er feng 马 耳 峰, Xieyang feng 斜阳 峰.

18 small rivers (from north to south): Xiayi xi 霞 移 溪, Wanhua xi 万 花溪, Yangxi xi 阳 溪溪, Mangyong xi 芒 涌 溪, Jin xi 锦溪, Lingquan xi 灵泉 溪, Baishi xi 白石 溪, Shuangyuan xi 双 鸳 溪, Yinxian xi 隐 仙溪, Mei xi 梅溪, Tao xi 桃溪, Zhong xi 中 溪, Lüyu xi 绿 玉溪, Long xi 龙溪, Qingbi xi 清 碧溪, Mocan xi 莫 残 溪, Tingying xi葶 萤 溪, Yangnan xi 阳 南溪.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. Lancaster, R. (1989). Travels in China, a plantsman's paradise . ISBN 1-85149-019-1 .
  2. http://www.chinatravel.com/yunnan/dali/attraction/dali-ancient-city/
  3. Archive link ( Memento from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Archived copy ( Memento from July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. As can be seen from the images: Archived copy ( Memento from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )