Is there a mountain in Kunshan? 】 The answer, of course, is yes. That is the Yufeng Mountain (also known as Ma’anshan) in the Tinglin Garden of Kunshan City. Although it is only 80.2 meters, as the highest point of Kunshan, it can still show itself in the plains of Ma Ping Chuan.
Since the Qin Dynasty, there have been more than 2200 years in Kunshan. There have been names of Lou County, Xinyi, Kunshan, Xinyang and Kunshan in successive dynasties. Some ancient place names have been used in some urban roads in Kunshan. And the place name "Kunshan" originated from the local chronicles "Kunshan County, therefore the name". The mountain mentioned in the local chronicles is Yufeng Mountain in the Tinglin Garden (also called Ma’anshan). In the early Qing Dynasty, Xu Song and Zhang Dachun edited a special collection of Suzhou local literature, Baicheng Yanshui, which recorded Kunshan as follows: Ma’anshan, in the northwest corner of the city… It resembles the original name of saddle. Liangshi (formerly known as Qiao Shi, Linglong Shi, Kunshan Shi, now known as Kunshan Shi), its quality is like jade, exquisite and exquisite, so the county is known as Kunshan. There is also a saying that the mountain is in Huating County (now Songjiang District, Shanghai, Songjiang District also has a place called Xiaokunshan). The old records of Kunshan are all named after Kunshan in Huating County. Tang Dynasty’s "Records of the Land of Wu" contains "Mountains, now 23 miles northwest of Huating County, cover and cut Kunshan in Huating County, while the name of the county is still called Kunming." Whether "Kunshan" is Ma’anshan or Huating’s Kunshan, place names are derived from mountains. It is the product of Cambrian marine environment more than 500 million years ago, and is also the oldest mountain strata in Taihu area. The lithology of Kunshi is dolomite, which is composed of crystal clusters. The main ingredient is silica. Kunshi’s mining, ornamental and collection can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, which has a history of more than 2200 years. Lu You, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, wrote in his poems of "Seven Laws" that "Yanshan and Qipu Kunshan Stones are used to soothe the silence. Inch root, nine thin, a punch unexpectedly worth thousands of gold. Zhang Yu, a poet of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in his poem Dekunshan Stone that "Kunqiu is an astonishing ruler with no Artemisia sinensis in its fundus." Standing alone in the snow is recommended by Qin, Xiaoduo Sheng Yun Run Pen Bed "and so on. Kunshi, together with Taihu Stone and Yuhua Stone, is known as the "three famous stones in Jiangsu Province".![]()
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