Tángcháo de Zhāng Jiǔlíng zài Dàyǔlǐng shàng kāi le yì tiáo shānlù, cóngcǐ nánběi láiwǎng fāngbiàn duō le.
In the Tang dynasty Zhang Jiuling opened a mountain road over the Dayu Range, and travel between north and south became much easier.
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culture
Also called 梅岭 'Plum Ridge', for the plum trees along its pass road. The pass, 梅关, was the main route between the Yangtze valley and Guangzhou for more than a thousand years. The Five Ridges (五岭) are 越城岭, 都庞岭, 萌渚岭, 骑田岭 and 大庾岭.
history
Tradition says the range is named after a Han dynasty general surnamed 庾 who built a fort on it.
