Tā zhàn zài shāndǐng, kàn zhe yuǎnchù céngcéngdiédié de cāngshān.
He stood on the summit, looking at the dark green mountains rising ridge after ridge in the distance.
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culture
Cang Mountain and the lake below it are so bound up with Dali that 苍山洱海 stands for the city itself, and the snow on its peaks is one of Dali's four famous sights.
usage
In poetry 苍山 is a plain phrase, 'dark green mountains': 毛泽东 wrote 苍山如海，残阳如血 'the green hills like a sea, the setting sun like blood', and 刘长卿日暮苍山远 'at dusk the green hills are far'.
