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What are the mountains and rivers in China

1. Mount Tai, located in the east of Shandong Province. Mount Tai was regarded by the ancients as a paradise that "leads to the throne of the emperor", and became a sacred mountain worshipped by the people and sacrificed to the emperor, with the saying that "if Mount Tai is safe and sound, all the four seas are safe and sound". Since the beginning of Emperor Qin Shi Huang to the Qing Dynasty, there have been 13 generations of emperors cited times personally mounted Mount Tai Zen or sacrifice, another 24 generations of emperors sent officials to sacrifice 72 times.

Taishan's magnificent mountain has left more than 20 ancient architectural complexes, more than 2,200 monuments and stone carvings. Taoism and Buddhism regard Taishan as "immortal mountain and Buddha country", deification of Taishan, built a large number of palaces and temples in Taishan. Mount Tai is the symbol of the Chinese nation, the epitome of oriental culture, the place where the idea of "unity of heaven and man" is entrusted, and the home of the spirit of the Chinese nation.

2. Mount Hua, south of the Qinling Mountains, north of Huangwei, since ancient times there has been a "strange and dangerous world's first mountain," said. Mount Hua is one of the first national key scenic spots, national 5A tourist attractions, national key cultural relics protection units. Mount Hua is the holy mountain of the Chinese nation. China's "Hua", originated from Mount Huashan, from which Mount Huashan has the "root of Huaxia" name.

3. Hengshan, Hengshan (Mount Heng), also known as Nanyue, Shouyue, Nanshan, is located in the central southeast of Hunan Province, China, stretching in Hengyang, Xiangtan between the two basins. Mount Heng is a famous Taoist and Buddhist shrine in China, with more than 200 temples, monasteries, nunneries and monasteries around the mountain. Hengshan is the place where the ancient kings Tang Yao and Yu Shun toured the frontier hunting and sacrificing to the gods of earth and grain, and where Xia Yu killed his horse and sacrificed to the heaven and earth to seek a cure for the flood method.

4. Hengshan, Hengshan, Hengshan, in the narrow sense of Hengshan, that is, the so-called "North Yue Hengshan", also known as "too Hengshan", the ancient name of the Xuanwu Mountain, mountain thieves, high is the mountain, Xuan Yue, etc., the end of the Ming and early Qing Dynasty was identified as the "five Yue "of the North Mountain Hengshan. Located in hunyuan county, Shanxi province, 10 kilometers south of the city, the main peak of Tianfengling in hunyuan county, south of the city, elevation 2016.1 meters.

Broadly speaking, Hengshan Mountain, or Hengshan Mountain Range, is a general term for a series of mountain peaks between the Sanggan River and the Hutuo River in southeastern Datong City, Shanxi Province, and southern Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, extending in a roughly southwesterly-northeasterly direction with an east-west length of about 500 kilometers and a north-south breadth of about 80 kilometers, with the highest peaks at Steamed Buns at the border between Daixian County and Yingxian County, with a height of 2,426 meters above sea level.

5. Mt. Songshan total area of about 450 square kilometers, composed of Taihou Mountain and Shaohou Mountain, *** 72 peaks, the lowest elevation of 350 meters, the highest point is 1512 meters. The main peak, Junji Peak, is located on Mt. Taigu, with a height of 1,491.7 meters; the highest peak, Liantian Peak, is located on Mt. Shaoru, with a height of 1,512 meters.

Songshan Mountain overlooking the Yellow River and Luoshui in the north, Yingshui and Keishan in the south, Zhengbian in the east, Luoyang, the ancient capital of the 13th Dynasty in the west, is an important barrier to the east of the ancient capital of Luoyang, which has always been a place of the capital city, and has a deep cultural heritage, and it is the birthplace of the Zen Buddhism in China and the holy place of Taoism, the source of kungfu. Mt. Songshan has been visited by more than 30 emperors and 150 famous literati.