Qin Mountains
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Partial calque of Mandarin 秦嶺／秦岭 (Qínlǐng)
Proper noun[edit]
- A major east-west mountain range in southern Shaanxi province, China.
- 1996, Liz Laider, Keith Laidler, “Eastern Plains and Yangtze Wetlands”, in China's Threatened Wildlife[1], Blandford, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115:
- The Qin Mountains support an especially rich variety of plant and animal life. This mountain range bisects China east to west and is the watershed for the Yellow River (Huang He) to the north and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the south.
- 2001 November 5, Philip P. Pan, “Cancer-Stricken Chinese Village Tries to Pierce a Wall of Silence”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 August 2023[3]:
- At first glance, the residents of Dragon Range seem unlikely victims of industrial pollution. Here in the Qin Mountains, about 600 miles southwest of Beijing, people cultivate lush fields of corn and wheat carved into the mountainside like stairs.
- 2014 May 21, John Kemp, “COLUMN-For polluted China, gas is a matter of life or death: Kemp”, in Reuters[4], archived from the original on May 21, 2014, Energy[5]:
- To determine which cities qualified for free heating, planners employed the traditional division between northern and southern China that runs along the line of the Qin Mountains and Huai River.
The Huai-Qinling line is an arbitrary boundary dating to imperial times, though it corresponds roughly to the 33rd parallel of latitude and the zero degrees Celsius isotherm in January.