Mount Song

Mount Song is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River. It is known in literary and folk tradition as the central mountain of the Five Great Mountains of China. Since at least as early as the early 1st millennium BC, Chinese astronomical mythology had acquired the idea that Mount S…
Mount Song is an isolated mountain range in north central China's Henan Province, along the southern bank of the Yellow River. It is known in literary and folk tradition as the central mountain of the Five Great Mountains of China. Since at least as early as the early 1st millennium BC, Chinese astronomical mythology had acquired the idea that Mount Song is "the centre of Heaven and Earth." It was respected as such by the successive dynasties of the Chinese Empire.
  • Elevation: 1,512 m (4,961 ft)
  • Peak: Lian Tian Feng
  • Prominence: 1,221 m (4,006 ft)
  • Parent peak: Mount Everest
  • Isolation: 82.3 km (51.1 mi) SW
  • Length: 100 km (62 mi) E-W
  • Width: 60 km (37 mi) N-S
Data from: en.wikipedia.org