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  2. Qinghai Lake - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Qinghai - Wikipedia

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    Qinghai Lake (青海湖; qīnghǎi hú) is another tourist attraction, albeit further from Xining than Kumbum Monastery (Ta'er Si). The lake is the largest saltwater lake in China, and is also located on the "Roof of the World", the Tibetan Plateau. The lake itself lies at 3,600 m elevation.

  4. Ao Run - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Four Seas - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Schizopygopsis przewalskii - Wikipedia

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    Schizopygopsis przewalskii (common name: Przewalskii's naked carp; in Chinese: 青海湖裸鲤; lit. 'Qinghai Lake naked carp') is a species of cyprinid that is endemic to the Lake Qinghai basin in China, where it is the dominant fish species (the other natives are four Triplophysa loaches).

  7. List of lakes of China - Wikipedia

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    South Hulsan Lake (Nanhuobuxun) Qinghai: 33.41 Saline Suli Lake (Senie) Qinghai: 69-85 Saline Sun Moon Lake: Taiwan: 7.93 Fresh Lake Tai: Jiangsu and Zhejiang: 2537.17 Fresh Tangxun Lake: Hubei: 47.6 Fresh Tuanjie Lake: Qinghai: 6 Saline Ulungur Lake: Xinjiang: 827 Saline West Lake: Zhejiang: 5.6 Fresh West Dabusun Lake (Xidabuxun) Qinghai: 0 ...

  8. Ming dynasty in Inner Asia - Wikipedia

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    After the fall of the Yuan dynasty in 1368, the armies of the early Ming dynasty arrived in what is now northeastern Qinghai province including the regions around the Qinghai Lake in the early 1370s, establishing the Xining Guard (Chinese: 西寧衛) stationed at Xining in 1373 [9] under the "Shaanxi Capital Command and Envoy Department ...

  9. Sanjiangyuan - Wikipedia

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    The Sanjiangyuan Area covers the southern and eastern parts of Qinghai and has an area of about 363,000 km 2, 50.4% of Qinghai.Included in it wholly or partially are 18 counties of the four Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures Yushu, Guoluo, Hainan, and Huangnan, and Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.