摘 要: | There is, within Chinese mythology, the legend of a carp thatjumped over the Dragon Gate and became a dragon. The cities ofHancheng (in Present-day Shaanxi) and Hejin (in present-dayShanxi), which stood on opposite banks of the Yellow River (themother river of the Chinese nation) Provide the setting for this leg-end. Hancheng and Hejin are believed once to have constituted a whole city, with the Dragon Gate Mountain at its center. When ram-paging floods inundated most of the farmland in …
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