山水是中国人的家园

Landscape is the Homeland of the Chinese People

在中国,有2种相互关联又不完全相同的山水。一种山水是物质世界的山水,这是地理空间上的山水。中国是一个多山的国家,山地、丘陵和高原占国土陆地总面积的69%。喜马拉雅山、昆仑山、祁连山、天山、横断山、贺兰山、秦岭、太行山、大小兴安岭、长白山等大小山脉构成了中国地形的骨架,孕育出中国国土错综复杂的地表形态和众多的江河湖泽。正是因为有这些高山峻岭,特别是西南部的雪域高原,中国广阔的南部和东部地区才成为山清水秀的鱼米之乡,而未像欧亚非大陆其他同纬度的区域那样极端少雨干旱。

In China,there are two related but not identical landscapes.One is the mountain and water of the material world,the ones in the geographical space.China is a mountainous country,with mountains,hills and plateaus accounting for 69%of the total land area.The Himalayas,Kunlun Mountains,Qilian Mountains,Tianshan Mountains,Hengduan Mountains,Helan Mountains,Qinling Mountains,Taihang Mountains,the Greater and Lesser Hinggan Mountains,Changbai Mountains and other large and small mountain ranges form the topographic skeleton of China,giving birth to the complex surface morphology and numerous rivers and lakes on the territorial land of the country.It is precisely because of these high mountains and ridges,especially the snowy plateaus in the southwest,that China's vast southern and eastern regions have become homes of beautiful sceneries and fertile fields,without the extreme low rainfall and drought like other regions of the same latitude in Europe,Asia and Africa.