Introduction of Three Mountains in Xinjiang 1 and Altai Mountain
Altai Mountains, from northwest to southeast, obliquely cross the borders of China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, stretching for more than 2,000 kilometers; Altai Mountain in China belongs to the south slope of the middle section, with a total length of more than 500 kilometers and an altitude of 1000-3000 meters. The height of the main ridge is more than 3000 meters, and the highest peak in the north is Friendship Peak, with an altitude of 4374 meters.
The forest line is generally at an altitude of 1800- 1900 meters, with an area of 1 1457 hectares, of which 1002000 hectares is a special protected area with abundant forest and mineral resources. The annual average temperature is 0℃, in which the average temperature in July below the alpine snow line is 15- 17℃, the lowest temperature in winter is-62℃, and the annual average precipitation is 500-700 mm.
Altai means "Jinshan" in Mongolian. Gold mining began in the Han dynasty, and as many as 50 thousand people searched for gold in the mountains in the Qing dynasty. Altai language family is named after Altai Mountain.
2. Tianshan Mountain
Tianshan Mountain is one of the seven mountain systems in the world, located in the hinterland of Eurasia, which spans China, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan from east to west, with a total length of about 2,500 kilometers, an average width of 250-350 kilometers from north to south and a widest point of more than 800 kilometers. It is the largest independent zonal mountain system in the world, the farthest mountain system from the ocean and the largest mountain system in the global arid area.
Tianshan Mountain runs east-west, stretching 1.7 million kilometers in China, covering an area of more than 570,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 1/3 of the total area of Xinjiang. Tianshan Mountain in China roughly divides Xinjiang into two parts: Tarim Basin in the south and Junggar Basin in the north. Tomur Peak is the highest peak in Tianshan Mountain, with an altitude of 7443.8 meters. The Syr Darya River, the Chu River and the Ili River all originate from the Tianshan Mountains.
3. Kunlun Mountains
Kunlun Mountain (Kunlun Mountain), also known as Kunlun Xu, the first mountain in China, Wanzu Mountain, Kunlun Mountain or Yushan Mountain. It is a mountain system in Central Asia and the backbone of the mountain system in western China. The mountain range starts from the eastern Pamirs in the west, crosses Xinjiang and Tibet, and extends to Qinghai, with a total length of about 2,500 kilometers, an average elevation of 5,500-6,000 meters, a width of 130-200 kilometers, a narrow width in the west and a wide width in the east, with a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. As the "ancestor of thousands of mountains", Kunlun Mountain has a prominent position in the cultural history of the Chinese nation. The ancients called Kunlun Mountain the "Long Mai ancestor" of China.
According to ancient mythology, there lived a fairy named "Queen Mother of the West" in Kunlun Mountain. She had a leopard head and was served by two bluebirds. She is the true god of Taoism, sharing the cultivation of immortals with Dong.