太行山

Tàihángshān
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Taihang Mountains (mountain range on the border between Hebei and Shanxi)

Examples

Tàihángshān wèiyú Héběi hé Shānxī jiāojiè.
The Taihang Mountains lie on the border between Hebei and Shanxi.
Yúgōng yí shān de gùshì jiù fāshēng zài Tàihángshān.
The story of the Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains is set in the Taihang range.

Tips

culture
The Taihang range is the setting of the famous parable 愚公移山 (Yúgōng yí shān, 'the foolish old man moves the mountains'), and was a major Eighth Route Army base during the war against Japan — heavy symbolic weight in Chinese culture.

In Pop Culture

愚公移山 Yúgōng yí shān
The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains
Classic parable from Liezi 列子 in which an old man digs through the Taihang and Wangwu mountains, generation by generation.

Stroke Order

tài
xíng
shān