First of all, Kunlun Mountain plays a very important role in the history and culture of China. Kunlun Mountain, also known as Kunlunxu, starts from the eastern Pamirs in western China, spans Xinjiang and Tibet, and extends to Qinghai. It is the backbone of the mountains in western China. Kunlun Mountain is about 2500 kilometers long, with an average elevation of 6 kilometers. The whole mountain range gradually widens from west to east, with a total area of over 500,000 square kilometers. Kunlun Mountain plays a very important role in the history and culture of the Chinese nation. Kunlun Mountain is the birthplace of Chinese culture, and many historical legends were born here, which witnessed the development of the Chinese nation. Therefore, Kunlun Mountain is also called the mountain of ten thousand ancestors, and the ancients even called it the ancestor of China Long Mai.
Then Kunlun Mountain was deified by the ancients because of its worship of immortals, and it became a fairy mountain that often appeared in China mythology. The mythical Kunlun Mountain does not refer to the real Kunlun Mountain. Kunlun Mountain has two concepts in the cultural history of China. One is widely spread? Kunlun Mountain? , that is, the legendary place where the king of Fuxi and the queen mother of the West lived. According to legend, ancient Kunlun is the Tianzhu connecting heaven and earth, and it is the beauty of many immortals' practice. According to Shan Hai Jing, the ancient Kunlun is the capital of emperors on earth, inhabited by immortals such as the Queen Mother of the West, Pangu and Fuxi, and the birthplace of the mother river, the Yellow River. Therefore, the ancients turned Kunlun Mountain into a mythical fairy mountain out of admiration for the immortals. Another concept is that Kunlun Mountain is actually a place in ancient mythology. In ancient times, the specific location of Kunlun Mountain was not clear. However, with the precipitation of history and culture, the ancients deified Kunlun Mountain, so Kunlun Mountain frequently appeared in fairy tales.
Finally, according to a lot of data, there are some differences between Kunlun Mountain in reality and Kunlun Mountain described in myth, but the ancients deified Kunlun Mountain, which led to frequent references to Kunlun Mountain in fairy tales.