Great Pass Under Heaven - Time-Skipped Landscapes

Author: An Jiesheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Selecting several topics from the historical geography of China, this book introduces various landscapes as carriers to explore related historical events, cultural elements, important figures, local customs, and folk legends. It narrates the historical and geographical changes, cultural origins, developmental contexts, and vicissitudes of these landscapes, delving into the profound historical and cultural connotations they carry. The book focuses on famous ancient passes in Chinese history. A pass is a landscape form that closely integrates natural and human elements, imbued with rich and unique Chinese cultural characteristics. It carries an extremely rich historical and cultural heritage and holds a prominent position in the evolution of Chinese history and culture. Scattered across the nine provinces, these passes are like brilliant pearls scattered on the traditional landscape map of China. Countless scholars and poets have composed countless poems and odes about them, and countless stories of passes have been widely circulated among the people. This book aims to comprehensively introduce the famous passes in Chinese history with significant historical status, as well as the major historical events and stories related to them, thereby delving deeper into the historical and cultural value of pass landscapes. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the historical value and development overview of pass culture, while the second part introduces the formation and evolution of famous passes in history.