"The green peaks of the Qinling Mountains are verdant, and the peaks are green and blue; The thousand-year-old trees have deep roots and shade like mountains covering them. "This is a poem left by ancient people when they crossed the Qinling Mountains.
The existence of Qinling not only changes the natural pattern of Chinese mainland, but also brings a strong "north-south difference", from sweet tofu brain or salty tofu brain, to the gentleness of the south and the frankness of the north, all of which are inextricably linked with it.
Some people say that Qinling is the dragon vein of China and even changed China's national fortunes. Where does this statement come from?
What is the name of Qinling?
Everyone knows the famous name of Qinling, but do you know it? In ancient times, Qinling was once called "Kunlun". What happened to make Qin Ling change his name?
In fact, all this is related to a figure in history - Qin Shi Huang, on this mountain range, gave birth to the splendid civilization of Great Qin.
Originally, before Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, Qinling was called "Kunlun" by the world, and later because it was located in the south of Daqin, it was also called "South Mountain".
The Qinling Mountains surround the Guanzhong Plain like a curved bow, like a solid barrier, guarding it in its arms and becoming a "land of four jams". Its existence provided a natural defense for the Qin State, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
On the other side of the Qinling Mountains, Chengdu Pingji became the "second granary" of the Qin State, giving birth to abundant wheat, corn, rice and other grains, providing solid logistical support for the Qin State.
Qin Shi Huang believed that "Qin is the ridge of the world, and Nanshan is the back of Qin", so he renamed "Nanshan" as Qinling. Although time has blurred the relationship between Qin Shi Huang and Qinling, that history is deeply imprinted in the history of Qinling.
Rumor has it that hundreds of millions of years ago, China was not a complete piece of land. The north and south continents did not completely border, separated by a wide Qinling Ocean, and later with the movement of the earth's crust, the Qinling Ocean slowly became the Qinling Mountains.
It straddles the land of China, connecting the East and West, and closely connecting the Huai River with the East China Sea. With the Qinling Mountains, the north and south of China have since merged into one and have never been divided again, integrating Chinese civilization into it. Some people praised: "A mountain range, half of Chinese history", thanks to its protection, countless dynasties prospered at the foot of this mountain range.
We are the descendants of the dragon, so Qinling is naturally called the dragon vein of the Chinese nation and the symbol of the mainland's national fortune.
North-South dividing line
In the vastness of China, the boundary between the north and the south seems to be a perpetual debate. In the eyes of Cantonese people, the north of Nanling is the north; Northeasterners, on the other hand, believe that from Shanhaiguan to the south is the south; Some people say that the north is heated in winter, and the south is not heated in winter.
However, looking at China's 9.6 million square kilometers, it seems that we can find an iconic reference in the map as the dividing line between the north and the south, the Qinling Mountains.
For geographers, the Qinling Mountains are the watershed between the Yangtze River basin and the Yellow River basin. Together with the extended Huai River, it forms the north-south dividing line in eastern China, and has achieved the geographical pattern of "south meter and north face", "south boat and north horse", and "south waterlogging and northern drought".
This mountain range almost coincides with the precipitation line of 800 mm per year, the isotherm line of 0 degrees Celsius average temperature in January, and the boundary between wet and semi-humid. Qinling Mountains, with its unique geographical topography, often block warm and humid air flow from the north and cold air from the south.
Not only geography and weather, but even animals and plants can be bounded by this, and zoologists divide the flora and fauna into the "Palaearctic Boundary" and the "Eastern Oceanic Boundary". The flora and fauna of the north and south blend and thrive in the Qinling Mountains, and because of this, many rare wild animals have found their suitable land for survival
For ordinary people like us, the most intuitive feeling brought to us by the north and south is whether it is heating and unique differences in life. The audience plain north of Qinling will be collectively heated in winter, while the climate south of Qinling is very suitable, with less cold weather, and you can spend a winter by relying on electric heating or electric mattresses.
People in the north are bold and cheerful, like to eat salty, and often eat dumplings to celebrate every festival, while friends in the south prefer sweet, and are not so enthusiastic about the custom of eating dumplings.
If the Qinling Mountains are the center, the surrounding geographical environment seems to show some kind of magical "symmetry". The Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the two mother rivers, cross the land of China in the north and the south; Their largest tributaries, also originating from the Wei and Han rivers in the Qinling Mountains, rush out from north to south; In addition, these two rivers gave birth to the Guanzhong Plain and the Sichuan Basin, which are also one north and one south.
Even the mountains of the Qinling Mountains themselves exhibit "North-South differences". The southern slope of the Qinling Mountains is relatively gentle, with continuous peaks and mountain terraces; The northern slope is steep and the cliffs are high, such as Cuihua Mountain, Taibai Mountain, Junan Mountain, Lishan Mountain, Huashan Mountain and other famous mountains, overlooking the Guanzhong Plain.
Speaking of which, we can't help but marvel at the magic of nature, and the two sides of a mountain range can show such a very different scene.
S.H.I.E.L.D. 749 Bureau
In fact, there have been many legendary stories on this mountain range, in 2011 some people built some villa groups in the Qinling area, on the surface they are building villas, but in fact, they have laid more than ten meters deep reinforced cement columns on the dragon veins of the Qinling Mountains, and some have penetrated the rock layer, which is clearly to damage the fortunes of the mainland.
Although there is no scientific basis for this feng shui matter, but it involves the national fortune of the mainland, it is naturally cautious and cautious, it is better to believe in it than to trust it, not to mention that these more than ten meters of steel bars will also destroy the soil quality of Qinling and seriously damage the ecological environment.
So the 749 Bureau shot, to give you the officials a popular science, this is a unit specializing in superphenomena, specializing in dealing with various strange events.
The demolition of the villa lasted three months, and it was not until 2018 that the cement pillars were completely lifted from the ground, rumors that even human bones were found at the bottom, after which it rained heavily for three days in the Qinling Mountains.
This is not the only bizarre incident in Qinling, it is said that there is a jade dragon village at the foot of the mountain north of Qinling, and overnight the villagers and even the dog that guarded the door disappeared as if the world had evaporated.
And a large number of UFOs appeared in the air, and snakes in the mountains fled one after another, which later people called the "night tanuki" incident. Now we can't find out the reason behind all this, and Qin Ling is becoming more and more mysterious.
What would China be like without Qinling?
Qinling is not only a symbolic north-south dividing line, but also a geographical climate dividing line, which not only blocks the cold Korean air from the south in winter, but also intercepts the warm and warm current in the north in summer.
On the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains, hundreds of millions of years of cold wind erosion have created various peculiar wind sculpture landscapes on the Loess Plateau; In the southern foothills of the Qinling Mountains, abundant precipitation nourishes all things, forming a unique ecosystem, where many rare species thrive.
Because of this, with wind, rain, thunder, scorching sun, ice and snow, people living on the Qinling Mountains can experience the changes of the seasons in one day.
Without the barrier of the Qinling Mountains, China's climate would have changed dramatically. Without mountain obstruction, the cold north wind will move south unhindered in winter, bringing violent snowstorms, resulting in a series of extreme weather phenomena such as power outages, widespread snow accumulation, and severe cold.
The wind and sand on the Loess Plateau will also directly invade the Sichuan Basin, crops, animals and plants will not survive, and rare animals such as pandas, antelopes, golden monkeys and other rare animals will lose the land on which they depend.
Qinling has witnessed the changes of history, the rise and fall of Chinese civilization, and the turmoil of war, connecting the past and the present, and connecting the north and south of the motherland. Therefore, Qinling is well deserved to be called the symbol of the mainland's national fortune.
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