Pingli is located in the southeast of Shaanxi, at the junction of Shaanxi, Hubei and Chongqing provinces, with a land area of 2,647 square kilometers, covering 1 1 town, 137 villages, 6 urban communities, with a total population of 230,000 and 6 beautiful business cards.
It is an important birthplace of Nuwa culture. Pingli is the hometown of Nu Wa, which was recorded as early as Huayang Guozhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Tang Xinshu in the Song Dynasty. In 2003, Professor Wang Zijin, a famous historian, folklorist and president of the Qin and Han History Research Association, held the first national seminar on Nuwa culture in Pingli, and agreed that Pingli was the earliest and most concentrated birthplace of Nuwa culture.
It is also the site of the oldest Great Wall in China. The Guanya Ancient Great Wall, existing in Pingli, is the site of the Chu Great Wall built in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It starts from Pingliguan Yazi and ends in Biyang County, Henan Province, with a total length of 500 kilometers and a history of 2700 years. This is the oldest Great Wall in China.
Pingli landform
Pingli county is located in the south of Qinling fold system, at the eastern edge of Daba mountain arc structure, belonging to Qinling stratigraphic area, with the characteristics of wide north and narrow south, like an irregular inverted triangle. According to the horizontal distance, it is 96 kilometers long from north to south and 60 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 2647 square kilometers. Mountains account for 78%, cultivated land accounts for 8.8%, and water accounts for 13.2%, which is called "eight mountains, one water and one field".
The southern part of the territory is dominated by mountainous terrain, and the peaks mainly include: Phoenix Mountain, Shenlongtai, Guangtou Mountain, Jiulongzhai, Wutai Mountain, Jiutaizi, Hualong Mountain, Heifengbao, Pingtou Mountain, Fuyao Mountain, Xidingding, Qiushan, Bashan Mountain, Xiangzizhai, Qinglong Village and Tianhuajian.
In addition, there are more than 50 peaks with an altitude of 1000 meters. The northern part is dominated by hilly terrain, and dozens of beaded wide dams and intermountain basins are scattered in Bahe River and Huangyang River basins. From tens of acres to hundreds of acres or even more. Among them, Chang 'an, Taiping, Luohe, Da Gui, Xihe and Chonghe are called the "Six Dams" of Pingli, which are the essence of agricultural production in the county.
At the same time, the territory is high in the south and low in the north, high in the east and low in the west. The highest point of the county is Hualong Mountain, the main peak of Daba Mountain in the south, with an altitude of 29 17.2 meters, and the lowest point is Toudongzi, Xihe Township in the north, with an altitude of 300 meters.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Pingli County.