Huashan Mountain, the ancient name of "Xiyue", elegantly known as "Taihuashan", one of the five mountains, located in Huayin City, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, 120 kilometers east of the provincial capital of Xi'an. South of the Qinling Mountains, the north overlooking the Huangwei, since ancient times there has been a "strange and dangerous world's first mountain," said.
The Chinese word "Hua" originates from Mount Hua, which is known as the "root of Huaxia". Mount Huashan is the mainstream of Chinese Taoism Quanzhen school of sacred places, for the "fourth cave", but also the Chinese folk widely worshiped God _, that is, the West Mountain Huashan Jun God. *** There are 72 half-suspended caves, more than 20 Taoist temples, including Yuquan Yuan, Du Long Temple, Dongdao Yuan, Zhenyue Palace is listed as a national key Taoist temples, there are Chen Tuan, Hao Daitong, He Yuanxi and other famous Taoist masters.
Climatic Characteristics of Huashan Mountain
Huashan Mountain is far away from the ocean, between 30°-60° north latitude in the west wind belt, with a continental degree of 53°7′, belonging to the warm temperate continental monsoon climate. Because the mountain is quite steep, the vertical temperature gradient (or temperature direct reduction rate) of the foothills and summit peaks: the northern foothills from the county to the summit, the elevation of every 100 meters, a reduction of 0.44 ℃, the southern foothills to the Luonan calculation, the elevation of every 100 meters, a reduction of 0.5 ℃.