Mount Song
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Mount Song is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River. It is known in literary and folk tradition as the central mountain of the Five Great Mountains of China. Since at least as early as the early 1st millennium BC, Chinese astronomical mythology had acquired the idea that Mount Song is "the centre of Heaven and Earth." It was respected as such by the successive dynasties of the Chinese Empire.
The Songshan Buddhist Academy, a modern monastery perched for effect on Lian Tian Feng.
Yellow River, Huang Ho
View into the Yellow River Valley west of Mount Song from the edge of the Qinling divide. The settlement is Lantian county.
Image: 15243 Dengfeng
Henan
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Henan is an inland province of China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including the ruins of Shang dynasty capital city Yin and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Luoyang, Anyang, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, are in Henan.
Image: The Songshan Buddhist Academy Lied in Mount Song
Image: 龙门石窟主窟 panoramio (1)
Image: Kaifeng
Image: Fawang Temple Pagoda, Dengfeng