泰山:从自然山地到文化圣地

Mount Tai: from Island Mountain to Cultural Holy Land

受喜马拉雅运动的影响,青藏高原崛起,中国大陆地形形成三级阶梯,在西风北支急流和东亚季风共同作用下,由风力、流水等外力作用在第二阶梯形成了巨厚的黄土高原;黄河从西到东贯通入海,携带黄土高原及沿途沙漠等泥沙类物质在太行山脉以东、环绕泰山的坳陷及浅海沉积充填,在第三阶梯上形成了华北平原,使泰山变为条件上佳的自然高地。远古人类利用泰山区域优越的自然条件,在大汶口、龙山文化时期显露文明初光,到三代中后期泰山地位初步显现;在与嵩山等名山的竞争中,受源于齐鲁的儒家学派的建构,嬴秦一族对泰山的封禅行动,使泰山在秦汉时期奠定首山地位,至唐宋更加巩固,泰山成为华夏一统、江山永固、国泰民安的象征,成为中华民族的精神家园、传统文化圣地。

Influenced by the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,great changes have taken place in the Chinese mainland.Under the combined action of the westerly North Branch jet and the East Asian monsoon,the huge Loess Plateau has been formed by the external forces such as wind and water.The Yellow River runs through the sea from west to East,carrying the sediment of the Loess Plateau and the desert along the way,depositing and filling in the shallow sea to the east of Taihang Mountain and surrounding Mount Tai,forming the North China Plain,which turns Mount Tai from island mountain to natural highland.Taking advantage of the superior conditions of Taishan area,ancient human beings revealed the early light of civilization in Dawenkou and Longshan cultural periods.In the middle and late three dynasties,Mount Tai's status initially appeared.In the competition with the famous mountains such as Mount Song,it won the Qin people's Zen,which made Mount Tai the first mountain in the Qin and Han Dynasties.In the Tang and Song Dynasties,Mount Tai became the symbol of the unification of China,the stability of the country and the people,and the spiritual home and traditional cultural holy land of the Chinese nation.