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The Kunlun Mountains (simplified Chinese: 昆仑山; traditional Chinese: 崑崙山; pinyin: Kūnlún Shān, pronounced [kʰu̯ə́nlu̯ə̌n ʂán]; Uighur: كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى / قۇرۇم تاغ تىزمىسى ) constitute one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending for more than 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi). In the broadest sense, the chain forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim Basin.

Kunlun Mountains
K'un-lun
View of Western Kunlun Shan from the Tibet-Xinjiang highway
Highest point
PeakLiushi Shan
Elevation7,167 m (23,514 ft)
Naming
Native name崑崙山 (Chinese)
Geography
CountryChina
RegionXinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet
Range coordinates36°N 84°E
Borders onGobi Desert
Kunlun Mountains
"Kunlun" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese昆仑山
Traditional Chinese崑崙山
PostalKwenlun Mountains

The exact definition of Kunlun Mountains varies over time. Older sources used Kunlun to mean the mountain belt that runs across the center of China,[1] that is, Altyn Tagh along with the Qilian and Qin Mountains. Recent sources[2] have the Kunlun range forming most of the south side of the Tarim Basin and then continuing east, south of the Altyn Tagh. Sima Qian (Records of the Grand Historian, scroll 123) says that Emperor Wu of Han sent men to find the source of the Yellow River and gave the name Kunlun to the mountains at its source. The name seems to have originated as a semi-mythical location in the classical Chinese text Classic of Mountains and Seas.


Extent


Kunlun range
Kunlun range
Karakash River in the Western Kunlun Shan, seen from the Tibet-Xinjiang highway
Karakash River in the Western Kunlun Shan, seen from the Tibet-Xinjiang highway

From the Pamirs of Tajikistan, the Kunlun Mountains run east through southern Xinjiang to Qinghai province.[3] They stretch along the southern edge of what is now called the Tarim Basin, the infamous Takla Makan desert, and the Gobi Desert. A number of important rivers flow from the range including the Karakash River ('Black Jade River') and the Yurungkash River ('White Jade River'), which flow through the Khotan Oasis into the Taklamakan Desert. To the south of the Kunlun is the sparsely populated Changtang region, which forms part of the Tibetan Plateau.

The Kunlun Pass
The Kunlun Pass

Altyn-Tagh or Altun Range is one of the chief northern ranges of the Kunlun. Its northeastern extension Qilian Shan is another main northern range of the Kunlun. In the south main extension is the Min Shan. Bayan Har Mountains, a southern branch of the Kunlun Mountains, forms the watershed between the catchment basins of China's two longest rivers, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

The highest mountain of the Kunlun Shan is the Kunlun Goddess (7,167 m) in the Keriya area in western Kunlun Shan. Some authorities claim that the Kunlun extends further northwest-wards as far as Kongur Tagh (7,649 m) and the famous Muztagh Ata (7,546 m). But these mountains are physically much more closely linked to the Pamir group (ancient Mount Imeon). The Arka Tagh (Arch Mountain) is in the center of the Kunlun Shan; its highest points are Ulugh Muztagh (6,973 m) and Bukadaban Feng (6,860 m). In the eastern Kunlun Shan the highest peaks are Yuzhu Peak (6,224 m) and Amne Machin [also Dradullungshong] (6,282 m); the latter is the eastern major peak in Kunlun Shan range and is thus considered as the eastern edge of Kunlun Shan range.

The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Cimmerian Plate during its collision, in the Late Triassic, with Siberia, which resulted in the closing of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.

The range has very few roads and in its 3,000 km length is crossed by only two. In the west, Highway 219 traverses the range en route from Yecheng, Xinjiang to Lhatse, Tibet. Further east, Highway 109 crosses between Lhasa and Golmud.


Kunlun Volcanic Group


Over 70 volcanic cones form the Kunlun Volcanic Group. They are not volcanic mountains, but cones. As such, they are not counted among the world volcanic mountain peaks. The group, however, musters the heights of 5,808 metres (19,055 ft) above sea level (35.5°N 80.2°E / 35.5; 80.2). If they were considered volcanic mountains, they would constitute the highest volcano in Asia and China and second highest in the Eastern Hemisphere (after Mount Kilimanjaro) and one of Volcanic Seven Summits by elevation. (Mount Damavand is the highest volcano in Asia, not the Kunlun cones.) The last known eruption in the volcanic group was on May 27, 1951.[4]


History and mythology


Peak in Kunlun range
Peak in Kunlun range

Legendary and mystical mountains are a long-standing aspect of Chinese civilization. Kunlun is originally the name of a mythical mountain believed to be a Taoist paradise.

Kunlun is a semi-mythical region not far from the source of the Yellow River.[5] The Kunlun Mountains entered Chinese ideology during the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), and have become closely integrated into Chinese culture.[6]

In the Book of Mountains and Seas, the Kunlun Mountains are mentioned:

昆仑之丘,是实惟帝下之都,神陆吾司之。

Which means "The hill of Kunlun, which is the capital of the emperor, and the god of the land."

Gu Jiegang divides the Chinese mythology system into the Kunlun system and the Penglai system based on the eastern and western regions. He believes that the myth of Kunlun

"originates in the western plateau, and its magical and magnificent stories spread to the east, and then follow the vast and boundless sea. The combination of these natural conditions has formed the Penglai mythology system in the coastal areas of Yan, Wu, Qi, and Yue."[7]

In mythology, Kunlun Mountain is the birthplace and ancestral place of the Chinese nation. In mythology, Kunlun Mountain is the center of heaven and earth. It goes up to the sky and is the staircase to the sky. The "Kunlun Mythology" system takes Kunlun Mountain as an iconic place, and mainly focuses on the myths and stories of related characters such as the Yellow Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West (Xi Wang Mu). Stories such as Kuafu chasing the sun, Gonggong's anger touching Buzhou Mountain, and Chang'e flying to the moon all originate from Kunlun mythology.

Mao Dun pointed out:

"The primitive people imagined that the gods lived in a group, and they also imagined that the gods lived on the extremely high mountains, so the highest mountain in the territory became the residence of the gods in mythology. The mystical idea of ​​​​this is what happened. The Chinese myth is equivalent to that of Kunlun.

According to legend, King Mu (976-922 BCE, Zhou Dynasty) was the first to visit this paradise. There he supposedly found the Jade Palace of the Yellow Emperor, the mythical originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu (Xi Wang Mu, the 'Spirit Mother of the West' usually called the 'Queen Mother of the West') who also had her mythical abode in these mountains. She was the object of a traditional religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty.



The Kunlun mountains (spelled "Kuen-Lun" in the book) are described as the location of the Shangri-La monastery in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English writer James Hilton.

The mountains are the site of the fictional city of K'un Lun in the Marvel Comics Iron Fist series and the TV show of the same name.[8]

In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, the Kunlun Mountains is the location of one of the episodes, and are home to the Panda King of the Fiendish Five.


References


  1. Richard, L. (1908). Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire. OCLC 2281016.
  2. National Geographic Atlas of China, 2008
  3. "Kunlun Mountains". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
  4. "Kunlun Volcanic Group". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  5. 贾海建. 神怪小说与山岳信仰关系研究 《中央民族大学》 2011 年博士论文.
  6. Peng, Peng (1 October 2021). "Decentralizing the origin of civilization: Early archaeological efforts in China". History of Humanities. 6 (2): 515–548. doi:10.1086/715935. ISSN 2379-3163. S2CID 244133983.
  7. 许洋洋. 中国神话的地域文化透视.
  8. Young, Sage (March 16, 2017). "What Is K'un-Lun In 'Iron Fist'? The "Lost City" Has A Mystical History". www.bustle.com. Bustle Digital Group. Retrieved November 19, 2018. It's located in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet, which is a real Chinese mountain range.

Further reading






На других языках


[de] Kunlun

Kunlun, veraltet: Kuenlun (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hant{font-size:110%}崑崙山脈 / 昆仑山脉, Pinyin Kūnlún Shānmài – „Kunlun-Gebirge“, kurz 崑崙山 / 昆仑山, Kūnlún Shān, tib. .mw-parser-output .Tibt.uchen{font-family:"Qomolangma-Dunhuang","Qomolangma-Uchen Sarchen","Qomolangma-Uchen Sarchung","Qomolangma-Uchen Suring","Qomolangma-Uchen Sutung","Qomolangma-Title","Qomolangma-Subtitle","Qomolangma-Woodblock","DDC Uchen","DDC Rinzin","Kailash","BabelStone Tibetan","Jomolhari","TCRC Youtso Unicode","Tibetan Machine Uni","Wangdi29","Noto Sans Tibetan","Microsoft Himalaya"}.mw-parser-output .Tibt.ume{font-family:"Qomolangma-Betsu","Qomolangma-Chuyig","Qomolangma-Drutsa","Qomolangma-Edict","Qomolangma-Tsumachu","Qomolangma-Tsuring","Qomolangma-Tsutong","TibetanSambhotaYigchung","TibetanTsugRing","TibetanYigchung"}.mw-parser-output .Tibt{font-size:140%}ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད) ist eine knapp 3000 km lange und bis 7167 m hohe Gebirgskette in China beziehungsweise in Hochasien.
- [en] Kunlun Mountains

[es] Kunlun

Kunlun (en chino tradicional, 崑崙山; en chino simplificado, 昆仑山; pinyin, Kūnlún Shān [kʰu̯ə́nlu̯ə̌n ʂán] ) es una de las más largas cadenas montañosas de Asia, extendiéndose a lo largo de más de 3000 km.

[fr] Cordillère du Kunlun

La cordillère du Kunlun (chinois simplifié : 昆仑山脉 ; chinois traditionnel : 崑崙山脈 ; pinyin : kūn lún shān mài ; en tibétain : ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད ; en mongol : Хөндлөн Уулс) ou Kunlun est une chaîne de hautes montagnes dont l'extrémité occidentale se situe près de la frontière entre la République populaire de Chine et l'Inde, puis qui longe la limite des provinces du Xinjiang et du Tibet et se prolonge à l'est dans celle du Qinghai. La chaîne s'étend sur plus de 3 000 km et culmine à 7 649 m au Kongur Tagh dans le chaînon Kashgar.

[it] Kunlun

I monti Kunlun (cinese: 昆仑山S, KūnlúnshānP, K'un-lun ShanW) sono un sistema montuoso della zona meridionale dell'Asia centrale, estesi da ovest a est per circa 2000 km, dal Pamir in Tagikistan fino al passo Kunlun e alle catene montuose adiacenti della parte centrale della provincia del Qinghai - Burhan Budai, Bayan Har e A'nyêmaqên (Amne Machin) - in Cina a est. La larghezza varia considerevolmente, ma raramente oltrepassa i 200 km, nella loro parte occidentale formano un bastione che divide in due l'Asia interna tra l'altopiano del Tibet da una parte e il bacino del Tarim (Talimu) nella Cina occidentale dall'altra, mentre una biforcazione settentrionale dei monti Altun (Altyn Tagh) prosegue questo allineamento.

[ru] Куньлунь

Куньлу́нь[2][1] (устар. Кунь-Лунь, Куэнь-Лунь; кит. 昆仑山脉, уйг. كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى, тиб. ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད།) — одна из крупнейших горных систем Азиатского материка, расположена в Китае. Куньлунь простирается от Памира на западе до Сино-Тибетских гор на востоке, окаймляя Тибет с севера. Длина горной системы — более 3000 км, ширина — от 150 км на западе до 600 км на востоке. Высшие точки: Улугмузтаг (7723 м) в центре и Конгур (7719 м) в западной части[1]. Естественными границами Куньлуня являются долина реки Яркенд на западе и Хуанхэ на востоке. Куньлунь является северной границей Тибетского нагорья. В центральной части гор расположен хребет Аркатаг (хребет Пржевальского); далее на восток — Бокалыктаг. Через перевал Куньлуньшанькоу пролегает дорога в Тибет и в 2006 году открыт железнодорожный Куньлуньский тоннель. По имени горной системы назван клуб Континентальной хоккейной лиги «Красная Звезда Куньлунь» из Пекина[3][4].



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