Mount Emei ( [ɤ̌.měɪ] ; Chinese : 峨眉山 ; pinyin : Éméi shān ), alternatively Mount Omei , is a 3,099-metre-tall (10,167 ft) mountain in Sichuan Province , China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China . Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin . The mountains west of it are known as Daxiangling . A large surrounding area of countryside is geologically known as the Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province , a large igneous province generated by the Emeishan Traps volcanic eruptions during the Permian Period .
17-505: Administratively, Mount Emei is located near the county-level city of the same name ( Emeishan City ), which is in turn part of the prefecture-level city of Leshan . It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Emei means "moth-browed". Chinese people offer burning sandalwood near the mountain to send their "prayers to heaven". Mount Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China , and
34-544: A giant, half-metre long earthworm species, Pheretima praepinguis . Mount Emei is known for its high level of endemism and approximately 200 plant species in various plant families have been described from this mountain. A rare species of Fir tree is endemic to this mountain it is Abies fabri . County-level city A county-level municipality ( Chinese : 县级市 ), county-level city or county city , formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: 专辖市 ; 1970–1983: Chinese : 地辖市 ),
51-1436: A somewhat similar naming convention is used for local government areas in some parts of Australia. For example, in New South Wales such a unit may often be called a "city" (rather than a traditional "shire"), and consist of "towns". E.g. City of Blue Mountains is made of a number of towns ( Katoomba , Springwood , etc.). Provinces Autonomous regions Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures Autonomous prefectures Leagues (Aimag) (abolishing) Prefectures Provincial-controlled cities Provincial-controlled counties Autonomous counties County-level cities Districts Ethnic districts Banners (Hoxu) Autonomous banners Shennongjia Forestry District Liuzhi Special District Wolong Special Administrative Region Workers and peasants districts Ethnic townships Towns Subdistricts Subdistrict bureaux Sum Ethnic sum County-controlled districts County-controlled district bureaux (obsolete) Management committees Town-level city Areas Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Village Committees Communities Capital cities New areas Autonomous administrative divisions National Central Cities History: before 1912 , 1912–49 , 1949–present As of 3 April 2023, there are 408 county-level cities in total: A sub-prefectural city
68-420: Is 3.07 °C (37.5 °F). Precipitation is common year-round (occurring on more than 250 days), but due to the influence of the monsoon , rainfall is especially heavy in summer, and more than 70% of the annual total occurs from June to September. There are nearly 400 total species of animals, invertebrates and plants native to the mountain. There are at least six snake species native to the region, including
85-487: Is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China . County-level cities have judicial but no legislative rights over their own local law and are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions , but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions . A county-level city is a "city" ( 市 ; shì ) and "county" ( 县 ; xiàn ) that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such, it
102-416: Is a county-level city with powers approaching those of prefecture-level cities . Examples include, Xiantao ( Hubei ), Qianjiang ( Hubei ), Tianmen ( Hubei ) and Jiyuan ( Henan ). Indian forest skink Sphenomorphus indicus ( Indian forest skink ) is a species of skink . Its habit is lacertiform; the distance between the end of the snout and the fore limb contained about 1.6 times in
119-407: Is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity, and a county, which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated counties . County-level cities are not " cities " in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because
136-657: Is traditionally regarded as the bodhimaṇḍa , or place of enlightenment, of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra . Samantabhadra is known in Mandarin as Pǔxián Púsà ( 普賢菩薩 ). Sources of the 16th and 17th centuries allude to the practice of martial arts in the monasteries of Mount Emei, which made the earliest extant reference to the Shaolin Monastery as the place of origin of Chinese martial arts. Chinese Buddhist pilgrims regularly travel to
153-599: The Chinese slug snake , Mandarin ratsnake , mountain water snake , Peters' odd-scaled snake , plus some potently venomous species, such as the Chinese green tree viper , the brown spotted pitviper and the Taiwan mountain pitviper . Visitors to Mount Emei will likely see dozens of Tibetan macaques , which can often be viewed taking food from tourists. A famously well-fed, one-armed, elderly female macaque named Xing Xing has millions of views on YouTube , seemingly showing
170-507: The ascent to the two temples at Jinding (3,077 m), an hour's hike from the mountain's peak. The summit of Mount Emei has an alpine subarctic climate ( Köppen Dwc ), with long, cold (but not severely so) winters, and short, cool summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −5.7 °C (21.7 °F) in January to 11.6 °C (52.9 °F) in July, and the annual mean
187-487: The counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing towns , villages and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term " 市区 " (shìqū) or "urban area", is used. While the idea of a "city" being a unit consisting of several "towns" is not a common one in English-speaking world ,
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#1732786714112204-401: The distance between axilla and groin. Snout short, obtuse; loreal region nearly vertical. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril pierced in a single nasal, or between a nasal and a postnasal; no supranasal; rostral convex, largely m contact with the frontonasal, which is broader than long, and forms a narrow suture with the frontal; the latter as long as frontoparietal and parietals together, in contact with
221-483: The first, second, and third supraoculars; 4 large supraoculars, followed by 2 very small ones; first supraocular not much longer than second; 9 or 10 supracilianes, first largest; frontoparietals and interparietal distinct, former a little longer than latter; parietals forming a short suture behind the interparietal; no nuchals; fifth and sixth upper labials largest and below the eye. Ear-opening oval, smaller than eye-opening; no auricular lobules. 36 or 38 smooth scales round
238-445: The macaques’ complete disdain for the hordes of tourists who are often offering them food directly in their faces. It seems that only one elderly woman who lives on the mountain, and her son, are able to be close to Xing Xing, to feed and pet her. Xing Xing appears to consider the woman her best friend, while shunning the offers of food from strangers. If tourists persist in holding food in the monkeys’ faces, they will aggressively grab at
255-525: The mountain. This is the location of the first Buddhist temple built in China in the 1st century CE. The site has seventy-six Buddhist monasteries of the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of them located near the mountain top. The monasteries demonstrate a flexible architectural style that adapts to the landscape. Some, such as the halls of Baoguosi, are built on terraces of varying levels, while others, including
272-484: The person’s clothing and stare at them, and not let go. If the person continues to irritate the macaque, they are very easily angered and prone to bite. Still, local merchants sell nuts and other foods for the tourists to attempt to feed the monkeys. Other local animals include lizards, such as the Indian forest skink and the lacerta Takydromus intermedius , the frogs Rana adenopleura and Vibrissaphora liui , and
289-600: The structures of Leiyinsi, are on raised stilts. Here the fixed plans of Buddhist monasteries of earlier periods were modified or ignored in order to make full use of the natural scenery. The buildings of Qingyinge are laid out in an irregular plot on the narrow piece of land between the Black Dragon River and the White Dragon River . The site is large and the winding footpath is 50 km (31 mi) long, taking several days to walk. Cable cars ease
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