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Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China. Located in an endorheic basin in Qinghai Province , to which it gave its name, Qinghai Lake is classified as an alkaline salt lake . The lake has fluctuated in size, shrinking over much of the 20th century but increasing since 2004.
Qinghai has been influenced by interactions "between Mongol and Tibetan culture, north to south, and Han Chinese and Inner Asia Muslim culture, east to west". [27] The languages of Qinghai have for centuries formed a Sprachbund , with Zhongyuan Mandarin , Amdo Tibetan , Salar , Yugur , and Monguor borrowing from and influencing one another. [ 54 ]
Site Chinese name Location Designation Image Kumbum Monastery: Ta'er si 塔尔寺: Huangzhong County 湟中县 : 1-111 Qutan Temple: Qutan si 瞿昙寺: Ledu County 乐都县 : 2-34
Ao Run is the patron of Qinghai Lake and could be linked to the White Tiger as both are Chinese western gods. His brothers are Ao Guang , the Dragon King of the East Sea , Ao Qin, the Dragon King of the South Sea , and Ao Shun, the Dragon King of the North Sea .
Pages in category "Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Qinghai" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Qinghai Lake, the West Sea. The original Four Seas were a metaphor for the borders of pre-Han dynasty China. [1] Only two of the Four Seas were tied to real locations, the East Sea with the East China Sea and the South Sea with the South China Sea. [3] During the Han dynasty, wars with the Xiongnu brought them north to Lake Baikal. They ...
Hoh Xil or Kekexili (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains"), is an isolated region in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. On July 7, 2017, the Hoh Xil in Qinghai was listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites as "the largest and highest plateau in the world". [1]
He left his slower-moving baggage train and 20,000 soldiers under Guo Daifeng behind and advanced with the rest to the Qinghai Lake. The Tibetans attacked and captured the Tang baggage train, and fought Xue's own army at the Dafei River (Dafeichuan, 大非川). In the aftermath of the battle, Xue retreated from Tuyuhun.