Legend has it that in ancient times, a giant red dragon ran out of the Tianchi on Bogda Peak. It was caught up by the Queen Mother and chopped off with a sword. Later, the two pieces of the giant red dragon were chopped off. Each dragon formed a mountain, the one to the west was called Yamalik Mountain, the one to the east was Red Mountain, and the sword became the Urumqi River.
Although this is a legend, it can be seen from the terrain photos taken by aerial surveys that Red Mountain and Yamalik Mountain are indeed a whole. It was only because of stratigraphic fractures that they were divided into two high mountains. Looking up the mountain.
In addition, if you look eastward from the top of Hongshan Mountain along the mountain trend, there is indeed a stone mountain winding westward from Bogda Peak to the Urumqi River. The mountain range breaks suddenly and the top of the mountain towers. Rise up, just like a giant dragon raising its head.
Because the Red Mountain is so steep and steep, it is part of the Bogda Mountain, and the legend is magical, the Red Mountain has always been regarded as a holy place, so people revere and worship it very much. The local people Use it as a place to offer sacrifices to Bogda Mountain.
It is said that when Tingzhou was established in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, a temple was built on Hongshan, which was known as "Hongmiaozi". Later, the nomadic people built "Aobao" to worship gods on the top of the Red Mountain. When the herdsmen saw Aobao from a distance, they would dismount their horses and salute.
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Hongshan, which means "red mountain peak", is located on the banks of the Yingjin River in the northeastern suburbs of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. Legend has it that the Red Mountain in Chifeng was originally called "Jiu Nu Mountain".
In ancient times, nine fairies broke the rules of heaven. The Queen Mother of the West was furious. The nine fairies panicked and accidentally knocked over the rouge box. The rouge spilled on the banks of the Yingjin River, and nine red fairies appeared. of mountain peaks.
In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Mongolians called it Ulan Hada, which was translated into Chinese as "red mountain peak". Therefore, it was later called "Red Mountain".
At the beginning of the 20th century AD, China was in an era of warlord warfare. The local Karaqin Mongolian prince hired a Japanese scholar named Torii Ryuzo to give lectures. According to Japanese memories, he crossed Liao Shangjing (today's Bahrain Left Banner) to Hongshan and found some pottery fragments on the ground nearby. ?
In 1919, a Frenchman named Sang Zhihua came. He came to Linxi County, Rehe Province, but returned without success. There was also a Frenchman named Teilhard de Chardin who discovered some fine stone tools from the Late Paleolithic Age in the Red Mountain area.
In the winter of 1930, Liang Siyong, son of Liang Qichao, came from Tongliao. He was born in Macau and returned from studying in the United States. He began to study archeology. After collecting some information about Torii Ryuzang, he participated in I joined the Archaeological Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and visited the Linxi, Shalahai, and Guozhushan areas. I only found some pottery fragments and then returned to Beijing.
In 1933, Japanese imperialism occupied Chengde, the then capital of Jehol Province. Then came a group of so-called Japanese archaeological missions called the Manchuria-Mongolia expedition team. There was a man named Hamada who was the president of the University of Tokyo at that time.
Their motive for coming is: if they want to conquer China, they must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia. I want to find evidence that does not belong to Chinese history and culture in the Mongolian area in the northern part of Rehe. result. Only some pottery fragments and a few bronzes were found at more than 30 sites in Hongshan, all of which are Chinese historical relics, making the Japanese invaders' efforts in vain.
After liberation, Mr. Liang Siyong became the deputy director of the Institute of Archeology of China. Chinese archaeologist Mr. Yin Da published the book "Chinese Neolithic Culture", with Mr. Liang writing the preface.
Mr. Yin Da believes that: Hongshan Culture is a combination of northern microlithic culture and Yangshao Culture. The two scholars discussed this cultural phenomenon in the Northeast, which is a new cultural phenomenon resulting from the contact between the north and the south of the Great Wall, and proposed to name it "Hongshan Culture".
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