Meanings
- Synonym of Qin Mountains.
On arriving in Hanzhong, Yongbao rushed into the Qinling Mountains to fight Zhang Hanchao.
2019, Yingcong Dai, “Mingliang's Fall and Nayancheng's Debut at the War Front”, in The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1532 more examples
By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site in Hsi-hsiang county, Shensi, on the southern side of the Ch’in-ling Mountain.
[1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39The inscriptions are on the walls of Dayu Cave in the Qinling Mountains of central China. They describe the impacts of seven droughts between 1520 and 1920.
2015 August 17, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “A Chinese Drought Weather Report Written on Cave Walls”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2015, ScienceSynonyms: Qin Mountains
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Qin Mountains.
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Qinling Mountains. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Qinling%20Mountains
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