Five Fives Supreme - Timeless Landscapes

Author: Chu Gansheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: One of the series "Rivers and Mountains of Time." This series selects several topics from the historical geography of China, using various landscapes as carriers to introduce related historical events, cultural elements, important figures, customs and traditions, folk legends, and to narrate their historical geographical changes, cultural origins, developmental threads, and historical vicissitudes. It explores the profound historical and cultural connotations carried by these landscapes. This book focuses on the Five Great Mountains of China. It is divided into seven chapters: "Emerging from the Void, Kunlun," "Gazing at the Southern Mountain," "Ruling the Mountain," "Crossing the Mountains as if Flying," "Living off the Mountain," "The Peach Blossom Spring," and "Everlasting Green Mountains." From a historical and cultural perspective, it provides a comprehensive introduction to the worship of mountains (such as the Fengshan ritual, the mythical), the perception and appreciation of mountains (such as landscape poetry, landscape painting, landscape travelogues, the relationship between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism with mountains), the military use of mountains (such as peasant uprisings and mountains, regional separatist forces and mountains, the Chinese revolutionary armed forces and mountains), the conquest of mountains (such as mountains as barriers, mountain development, mountain specialties, terraced fields and paddy fields), the customs of mountain villages (such as dialects, customs, mountain songs, mountain gods, mountain dwellings, rock toilets), and the protection and future prospects of mountains. It delves deeply into the diverse historical and cultural phenomena carried by these landscapes.