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The Shu Road serves as a prime illustration, traversing some of China's most rugged and desolate terrains, including the Qinling and Daba Mountain ranges. Functioning as a crucial link between the Wei River valley and the ancient capital of Chang'an, this road employed the plank road technique to secure pathways across cliffs and steep ravines. [2]
Confluence of Wei River and Yellow River in Tongguan County. The source of the Wei River starts in the mountainous region in southern Weiyuan County (literally meaning "Wei's source"), Gansu province, with the westernmost headwater of its mainstem Qingyuan River (清源河) less than 1.6 km (0.99 mi) away from a headwater of Manba River, a main tributary of the Tao River, which is the second ...
The story goes that King Huiwen of Qin on the Wei River wished to conquer the kingdom of Shu to the south over the impassable Qinling Mountains in the Sichuan Basin.Knowing of the King of Shu's fondness for treasure, he had his sculptors make five life-sized stone cows with gold tails and hindquarters with gold and placed them where the Shu ambassadors could see them.
Guanzhong (Chinese: 关中, formerly romanised as Kwanchung) region, also known as the Guanzhong Basin, Wei River Basin, or uncommonly as the Shaanzhong region, is a historical region of China corresponding to the crescentic graben basin within present-day central Shaanxi, bounded between the Qinling Mountains in the south (known as Guanzhong's "South Mountains"), and the Huanglong Mountain ...
Liu Bang's army marched south across the Qinling Mountains, following the Ziwu Road to Hanzhong. After reaching the Han River Basin in Hanzhong, Liu Bang, on the advice of his advisor Zhang Liang, burned the wooden gallery road to prove his commitment to follow Xiang Yu's orders and remain within his own dominion. [4]
Weinan (Chinese: 渭南; pinyin: Wèinán) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Shaanxi province, northwest China.The city lies on the lower section of the Wei River confluence into the Yellow River, about 60 km (37 mi) east of the provincial capital Xi'an, and borders the provinces of Shanxi and Henan to the east.
The Early Yangshao period or Banpo phase (c. 5000 –4000 BC) is represented by the Banpo, Jiangzhai, Beishouling and Dadiwan sites in the Wei River valley in Shaanxi. [ 20 ] The Middle Yangshao period or Miaodigou phase ( c. 4000 –3500 BC) saw an expansion of the culture in all directions, and the development of hierarchies of settlements in ...
It is the largest river in Ningxiang City and one of the largest tributaries of the Xiang River. [ 1 ] Wei River's main tributaries include Huangjuan River ( 黄涓水 ), Duan River ( 塅溪 ), Mei River ( 梅溪 ), Tiechong River ( 铁冲河 ), Yutang River ( 玉堂水 ), Chu River and Wu River .