There is a place in Nanjing where a tiger sits on top of a dragon.
To the east of Nanjing is the rolling Zhongshan Mountain, crouching like a giant dragon, and to the west is the majestic Stone City, sitting like a tiger. This is the "Tiger on the Dragon's Pan" ".
"The dragon and the tiger, the emperor's house" only appeared in the Soochow of the Three Kingdoms. This person is Zhuge Liang. This statement can be found in Volume 156 of "Taiping Yulan" quoted from "Wu Lu" by Wu Bo of Jin Dynasty: "Liu Bei once sent Zhuge Liang to the capital. When he saw the Moling Mountain, he sighed and said: 'Zhongshan is a dragon, and the stone city is full of tigers. This is the residence of the emperor. . '" Afterwards, Sun Quan listened to Zhuge Liang's words and Liu Bei's suggestion, and moved the capital from Wuchang to Nanjing. Soochow, the first dynasty in the history of Nanjing, was born.
Zhuge Liang is a master of Feng Shui. Nanjing has a dangerous terrain, surrounded by mountains, high in the north and low in the south, making it easy to defend but not easy to attack. In the west, the Qinhuai River flows into the river, and there are many mountains and rocks along the river. From southwest to northeast there are Shitou Mountain, Ma'an Mountain, Siwang Mountain, Lulong Mountain, and Mufu Mountain; in the northeast there is Zhongshan, the highest peak of the Ningzhen Mountains; in the north there are Fugui Mountain, Fuzhou Mountain, and Jilong Mountain; in the south there are Changmingzhou and Zhanggongzhou , Egret and other sandbars form Jiajiang River. These natural barriers protect Nanjing and make the rulers take a fancy to this treasure land.
Nanjing's topography
Nanjing is known as the "Natural Geological Museum", with various landform units such as the Yangtze River floodplain, water-rich soft soil, hills, and karst coexisting. Nanjing belongs to the Ningzhenyang hilly area, which is dominated by low mountains and gentle hills. Low mountains account for 3.5% of the total land area, hills account for 4.3%, hills account for 53%, and plains, depressions, rivers and lakes account for 39.2% of the total land area. The Ningzhen Mountains and the Laoshan Mountains in the north of the Yangtze River run across the central part of the city, and in the south are the Hengshan Mountains and Donglu Mountains at the southern boundary of the hilly hills of the Qinhuai River Basin.
The plane location of Nanjing is long from north to south and narrow from east to west, forming a true north-south direction; the straight line distance from north to south is 150 kilometers, the middle part is 50 to 70 kilometers wide from east to west, and the east-west width at the north and south ends is about 30 kilometers. To the south is a landform complex composed of terrain units such as low mountains, hills, valley plains, lakeside plains and riverside areas.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing