Speaking of Kunlun Mountain, we all know that it is one of the largest mountain ranges in China, stretching across the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is one of the largest mountain systems in Asia, the mountain range stretches from the eastern part of the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the junction of Xinjiang and Tibet to the territory of Qinghai, with a total length of about 2500 kilometers, an average altitude of 5500-6000 meters, a width of 130-200 kilometers, and an area of more than 500,000 square kilometers.
We also know that Kunlun Mountain has been very famous since ancient times, appearing countless times in cultural classics, and has the status of "ancestor of ten thousand mountains" in mythology, and feng shui also calls it "the ancestor of the dragon vein" and "the land of the ancestral dragon". In the ancient mythology of our country, the extremely precious Queen Mother of the West resided in the Kunlun Mountains, she was the Taoist god of righteousness, and she was in charge of the affairs of the male and female cultivators and immortals with the Eastern King. For example, in the earlier mythological story "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", King Mu of Zhou once saw the Queen Mother of the West.
However, if we understand all this as the current Kunlun Mountains, we will be wrong, because some of the Kunlun Mountains mentioned in ancient China do not refer to the current Kunlun Mountains, but other mountains.
Historian Gu Jiegang believes that the Kunlun Mountain in the pre-Qin classics in history and the Kunlun Mountain geographically certified by the Han Dynasty are not the same mountain, or even the same place. He believes that the "Kunlun Hill" recorded in the myths and legends recorded in pre-Qin texts such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Huainan Zi refers to the Yangcheng Jiecheng Mountain, while the geographically certified Kunlun Mountain after the Han Dynasty is the Khotanese Mountain in qinghai, which is a small part of the eastern section of the present-day Kunlun Mountains.
However, what he said also has a little omission, that is, today's Kunlun Mountain and Most of the time after the Han Dynasty in China think that the Kunlun Mountain is also different, look at the Kunlun Mountain that the ancient people think of after that, referring to most of the small part of the eastern section of Kunlun Mountain, including Khotan, in modern times, geography has developed greatly, and only then will the Khotanese Mountains extend west of this huge mountain range of 2500 kilometers long called Kunlun Mountain.
Therefore, it is clear that the Kunlun Mountain in ancient books and myths and legends and the Kunlun Mountain in modern geography actually have little to do with each other, and we can even say that the two are not a mountain at all.
Here we introduce the ancient myth called Kunlun Mountain, which is located 30 kilometers southwest of Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, with a radius of 20 square kilometers, and the main peak is Shengwangping. The altitude is 1889.5 meters, is a karst landform formed 2.5 million years ago, but the main peak of this mountain is surrounded by a city, the middle depression is like a basin, which has a lake, which is more suitable for habitation, and in the era of war and chaos, it is also easier to defend, so it was very early on where people lived, and built a small city, southeast, northwest and northwest have gates, known as the City of Analysis, China's pre-Qin era many myths and legends of kunlun mountain refers to it.