Ma'anshan, Lucheng, Bengbu, Humen... how many of these interesting animal place names have you seen?

In the long-term production and life practice, ancient people cultivated and raised chickens, cattle, horses, deer, mandarin ducks, parrots, river clams and other livestock and poultry, as well as wild swallows, wild geese, egrets, and bees, The butterflies are all lovable, and behemoths such as elephants and tigers are often seen. These birds and animals are the most familiar to people, so they are often used when comparing place names. Jigong Mountain is located in the Dabie Mountains at the junction of Hubei and Henan provinces south of Xinyang City, Henan Province. It is called Chicken Wing Mountain in "Shui Jing Zhu". The main peak of the mountain, Baoxiao Peak, is 744 meters above sea level. The Linghua Mountain and Changling Mountains on both sides are like the wings of a rooster, so later generations also call it "Jigong Mountain". Around Baoxiao Peak, the cliffs and valleys resemble chicken feet, and the entire mountain is Like a rooster crowing at dawn, it stands vigorously among the mountains. The mountain is surrounded by clouds and mist, and the springs are tinkling. It is a famous summer resort in my country. Coincidentally, Jizu Mountain in the northwest of Binchuan County, Yunnan, is located in the northwest. Facing the southeast, there are three hills in the front and one ridge in the back. It is named after its shape of chicken feet. In the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake traveled here twice and compiled a book about the introduction of Buddhism to this mountain in the Tang Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, Buddhist services were flourishing and incense was everywhere. At its peak, there were 36 temples, 72 nunneries, and 5,000 monks and nuns. The beautiful Keelung Port was originally called "Jilung", named after Jilong Island about six kilometers outside the port. This The small island with an area of ​​only 0.2km2 has a very important geographical location. From a distance, the solitary mountain stands like a chicken coop floating on the water. Accordingly, fishermen in Taiwan named it Jilong Island (now Keelung Island). It is located on it The port behind it was naturally called "Jilong Port". As the port became increasingly prosperous, people felt that the name "Chicken Coop" was inelegant. When the administrative district was established in the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1875), it was named "Chicken Coop". Keelung Hall is the homophonic pronunciation of "cage". Cows are ruminant mammals with a pair of horns on their heads. They are very powerful and can plow fields and pull carts. Their meat and milk are edible. There are so many place names named after cows in the world. On the cliffs on the south bank of Xiling Gorge in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, there is a row of steep stone walls, shaped like a morning bull. The person is yellow and the body of the bull is ocher. It is called Huangniu Rock. In ancient times, the water in the gorge was rapid, and the wooden boats traveled slowly upstream. The huge Huangniu Rock can still be seen for several days, so the "Shui Jing Zhu" records the proverb ""The yellow ox is sent in the morning, and the yellow ox stays in the evening. Three mornings and three dusk, the yellow ox remains the same as before." Li Bai also once said "" when he went to the Three Gorges. "Three dynasties and three twilights, I don't realize that my temples have become silk". Similarly, the famous Funiu Mountain in western Henan, as the name suggests, is because the mountain is shaped like a Funiu. This name came into being as early as the Tang Dynasty. There are many Niutou Mountains across the country. The most famous one is Niutou Mountain outside Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. This mountain has been very dangerous since ancient times. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was named Tianque Mountain. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, people saw that it has two peaks standing at the angle, shaped like an ox's head, so it was renamed Niutou Mountain. In the fourth year of Jianyan of the Southern Song Dynasty (1130), Yue Fei set up a fort in Niutoushan, ambushed a heavy army, and defeated the Jin soldiers who invaded the south. In the twelfth year of Hongwu (1379), Anshan Station was set up here because there was a mountain nearby, which was shaped like a saddle and was called Ma'anshan. ""Anshan" is its abbreviation. Since the Liao Dynasty, a special iron smelting institution ""Iron" was established here. After the Qing Dynasty, the iron-making industry has been prosperous. In the early Qing Dynasty, mining was regarded as "unreasonable and feng shui", and it was banned for fear of digging out the "dragon vein" of the Manchu Dynasty. In 1915, Japan captured this place. The mining rights and steelmaking began, taking away a lot of wealth from the Chinese people. It was not until Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945 that Anshan returned to the embrace of the motherland. Ma'anshan City in Anhui Province is also a famous steel base, located along the Yangtze River on the west side of the city. It is named after the saddle-shaped mountain. Other names for horses include Pi, Li, etc. Northerners call the green and white horses Helan. There are green and white trees on Helan Mountain in Ningxia, which look like horses, hence the name. Helan Mountain has withstood the wind and sand from the northwest, making the Ningxia Plain with better irrigation conditions the famous ""fortress on the south of the Yangtze River"". Lishan Mountain is located 20 kilometers east of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, with an altitude of 1,256 meters. Because of its green pines and cypresses all year round, it can be seen from afar. It is named after a group of green Li horses. The story of King You of the Western Zhou Dynasty playing with the princes happened at the foot of Li Mountain. To the east of Li Mountain is the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, where the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", were discovered. Here you can get a glimpse of the powerful military of Qin who unified China more than 2,000 years ago and the great creativity of the ancient people.

Deer Deer is a mammal with slender limbs and mostly brown fur, some with spots or stripes. Common species include sika deer, sambar, white-lipped deer, red deer, etc. They are very cute. Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, is originally a homophony of the Mongolian "Baoketu", which means "a place with deer". Documents during the Yongzheng period recorded that "the mountains are high and the trees are dense, and there are many pheasants and deers in them". Wenzhou, Zhejiang is also known as "Lucheng" , because it is said that when the city was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a white deer passed by carrying flowers, but it may not actually be a deer. Mandarin duck is a kind of bright-spotted duck in Asia. People think that they always come and go in pairs, so they liken them to a couple. A symbol of happiness. In the south of present-day Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, there was a fairly large lake in the Song Dynasty, consisting of two lakes connected to the east and west, just like a mandarin duck (or there are many mandarin ducks in the lake), so it was called Yuanyang Lake. A poem wrote: ""The moon is like water by the Yuanyang Lake, and the lone boat is rising at night. "After the Yuan Dynasty, due to the swampiness of the lake itself and people's reclamation of fields around the lake, the area of ​​the lake more than doubled, and the name of Yuanyang Lake could only be replaced by "" Nanhu". July 23, 1921, * ** The meeting on the last day of the first year was moved from Shanghai to a boat on the South Lake of Jiaxing, announcing the birth of the Communist Party of China. Parrots belong to the order Psittaciformes and have bright and colorful feathers. It can imitate human speech. There is Parrot Island in Wuhan. It is said that Mi Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty impromptuly composed "Parrot Ode", hence the name. Cui Hao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Deng Huang Crane Tower": "In the past, people have gone on white clouds, and this place is empty." The Yellow Crane Tower; the Yellow Crane is gone and never returns, and the white clouds linger in the sky for thousands of years; the Qingchuan is full of Hanyang trees, and the grass is luxuriant and the Parrot Island is there; where is the hometown at sunset? The smoke on the Yanbo River makes people sad. "Yellow Crane Tower, Hanyang, and Parrot Island are all place names of Wuhan. Parrot Island was originally in the Yangtze River west of Wuchang. Later, due to the northward movement of the Yangtze River's main stream, it was washed away during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty; during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, siltation outside the south gate of Hanyang A new sandbar was created and connected with the land. It was first named Fukezhou and later renamed Parrot Island. It now covers an area of ​​six square kilometers. However, today's Parrot Island is no longer what it was in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is known as the "Quasi Pearl". Bengbu City in Anhui Province is a railway transportation hub. According to legend, people gathered here to collect clams and pearls in ancient times, so the place was named Bengbu Ji. The fishing village developed into a medium-sized city. In 1947, Bengbu City was established. Swallow is a very cute bird. There is a Yanziji on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the northeast of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The rock stands on the river about 40 meters high, like a swallow. Wings fluttering. Yanziji was an important ferry in ancient Nanjing. Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty anchored their boats here. Qianlong even wrote the inscription ""Yanziji"" in his own handwriting. Dayan Dayan is a winter migratory bird with feathers They are purple-brown, with white bellies, flat beaks and short legs. They live in groups near the water and often fly in rows, so they are very popular. They fly south during winter every year, and can be allowed to fly in the blue sky in other seasons. It was discovered when Zhenzong went into the mountain to cut trees for the construction of the Yuqing Palace. It was first seen in Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan". It was named because geese often camped here when they returned to the south in the spring. It is a mountain with an altitude of 1,780 meters in the northwest of Dai County, Shanxi today. The peaks face each other like gates, and Guan City was built in the early Tang Dynasty. Because every spring and autumn, flocks of wild geese form a human figure or fly between the two peaks, so the mountain is called Yanmen Mountain, and Guan City is also called Yanmen Pass. . The reason why Yanmen Pass is famous is related to the famous story of the Yang family generals, especially the heroic deeds of the female generals of the Yang family, which are widely circulated among the people, so Yanmen Pass has become famous all over the world. "A row of egrets ascending to the blue sky", the great poet Du Fu described how beautiful the scenery is! The egrets have white feathers and long legs, and can wade in the water to catch fish and shrimps. Nanjing Bailuzhou is located in the middle of the Yangtze River in the west of Jiangning County (now Banqiao Town, Jiangning) in the Six Dynasties , "Shui Jing Zhu" has recorded that there are many egrets on the island, so it is named after "Deng Jinling Fenghuang Terrace" written by Li Bai when he was 61 years old. That's it. The famous seaport city of Xiamen is known as "Egret Island". Xiamen was originally a beautiful island. In 1955, a seawall connected to Jimei was built and became an artificial peninsula. Legend has it that egrets lived here a long time ago. This place is also called Ludao and Lujiang. The egret is also the city bird of Xiamen. The bee is a small bee and may not attract people’s attention. However, Mishan City in Heilongjiang is named after bees. Believe it or not. -Every autumn, local people go into the mountain to collect nectar from the dead trees in the rock gaps and poplar hills. They can get hundreds of pounds of nectar, so the mountain is named Bee Mountain.

During the period of the Puppet Manchukuo, ""Mi" was changed to ""Mi", which was called Mishan. Mishan Prefecture was established in 1907, changed to a county in 1913, and a city in 1988. Butterfly is located in Butterfly Spring in the north of Dali City, Yunnan, and is celebrated every spring. It is famous for the gathering of butterflies in late summer and early early spring. Thousands of colorful butterflies dance in the shade of the trees beside the spring, which is a wonder in the world. Elephants are giants among beasts, and Elephant Trunk Mountain is simply a wonder. It has become the symbol of Guilin, Guangxi. In Guilin, at the confluence of Dijiang River and Yangjiang River, there is a "giant beast" with its feet in the river. It is curling up its long trunk and drinking water with relish. This is the trunk of an elephant with both magical and moving features. Mountain. This mountain was called Dishan in Liu Zongyuan's writings. Later generations changed its name to Elephant Mountain or Elephant Trunk Mountain because its shape resembled an elephant. Similarly, there is a mountain on the west side of Mount Everest, which is the largest in the world. The road from China to Nepal is located on the concave neck of an elephant. In Tibetan, the neck road is called "Nyalam". This is the origin of ***Nyalam County, where the famous Zhangmu Port is located. In the south of the county town, the abbreviation of Henan "" Yu" is also related to elephants. There is a record of "" merchants serving elephants" in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu", and the word "" Xiang" is also found in oracle bone inscriptions, which shows that the climate in the Yin and Shang Dynasties was much better than today. Warm. Today, elephants in China can only live in a corner of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan. Tigers are brave, majestic and full of vitality, so the word "tiger" often appears in place names. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the north of Lijiang City, Yunnan. The two sides of the strait are so close that they are as steep as a wall. People say that only tigers can jump across it, so it is called "Tiger Leaping Gorge". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Quan was preparing to join forces with Liu Bei to deal with Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang was invited to discuss countermeasures. As soon as Zhuge Liang arrived in Jiankang (today's Jiankang) Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province), he immediately praised "Zhongshan with dragons and tigers perched on the rocks, it is truly the residence of the emperor." Since then, "Zhongshan with dragons and tigers perched on the pan" has become a unique feature of Nanjing. To this day, Qingliang Mountain in the west of Nanjing still remains. There is a "Tiger Pass". On the north bank of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong, there is a heroic animal place name called Humen. Because on the lion ocean at the Pearl River Estuary, there are large and small tiger mountains lying on the left and right respectively, just like two gatekeepers. Guards, so it was called Humen. In the early Ming Dynasty, Humen Fort was set up here, and in the Qing Dynasty, Humen Fort was set up. On June 3, 1839, the Lingnan land was clear and the Humen Beach was crowded. Lin Zexu, the imperial envoy, ordered to seize the cigarettes from British and American cigarette dealers. More than 20,000 boxes of opium (totaling more than 2 million kilograms) were all destroyed in public here. This is the famous "Humen Opium Destruction". There are still ruins of opium burning pools in Humen. This feat wrote a chapter in modern Chinese history. A majestic opening statement