Sichuan Basin Presentation

四川盆地

Sichuan Basin

Ava Lewellyn 2A

3 Major Cities

Chengdu was the capital of the ancient state of Shu and is now the capital city of Sichuan Province

Mianyang is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China.

Nanchong is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province.

Mild Climate

山脉

Subtropical monsoon climate-cold in the winter -dry in the spring -hot in the summer -rainy in the autumn.

Mountains

Surrounded by high and difficult mountains Geological protection

气候

Soil

Fertile soils derived from old lake sediments Farmers count on several crops every year (diversity of food crops as well as specialties)

Map of sampling locations in Sichuan Basin where purple soils were mainly distributed.

Thousand-Buddha Cliff

The stone carvings are major relics from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) found in Shandong Province, containing over 210 statues and 43 inscriptions along the 63-meter-long cliff from north to south. The statues were mostly carved during 618-684, as well as in the later dynasties. There are also five bigger caves with 2.6-meter-tall statues of noble people, such as government officials, relatives of emperors and famous monks. The most famous statues are of Princess Nanping and her husband, Liu Xuanyi.

Qingcheng Mountain

Construction of the Dujiangyan irrigation system began in the 3rd century B.C. This system still controls the waters of the Minjiang River and distributes it to the fertile farmland of the Chengdu plains. Mount Qingcheng was the birthplace of Taoism, which is celebrated in a series of ancient temples.

The Corridor of Cypress

"tens of thousands Chinese cypress trees, a sacred and huge plant worshiped by most of Chinese, still shadow the passengers. The cypress corridor spread up on the ridges and down to valleys for over 200km, with many of the trees aged more than 1000 years’ old and trunk diameters over 2m, shaping a distinguished visible cultural landscape characteristic to mountainous rural China".

Sichuan is one China’s most important tea producing province. It is home to a big range of outstanding tea varieties. Mengding Ganlu is a famous green tea produced on Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province. It is a pan-roasted green tea. Its name means “Mengding Sweet Dew”. It is considered one of China’s ten most famous teas.

Sichuan Silk has a unique historic origin, and a special process of forming and development. It possesses strong vitality and cultural dynamics that keep renewing with new elements. The development of Sichuan Silk has its own cultural features; originating in several places during ancient times and developing at the same pace, being a key support for the economy of Sichuan

蒙顶甘露

(Mengding Ganlu)

Sichuan is known for its tea, silk, and many other things that are major staples to the modern economy of China.

Ozone Issues

The Sichuan Basin is known for excessive ozone (O3) pollution due to high anthropogenic emissions combined with terrain-induced poor ventilation and weak wind fields against the surrounding mountains.

Visit the Sichuan Basin!

Sichuan is significant to China for all of the previously states reasons as well as "[being] the first province to declare independence and the last to be reunited after there is peace" and the highly protected geographic areas that surround it.

SOURCES

• http://en.chinaculture.org/library/2008-02/15/content_33324.htm
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1001/
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5994/
• https://freshteastories.com/tag/sichuan/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749122001282#:~:text=The%20Sichuan%20Basin%20(SCB)%20of,fields%20against%20the%20surrounding%20mountains.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianyang
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchong
• https://www.chinahighlights.com/sichuan/weather.htm#:~:text=This%20area%20has%20a%20subtropical,77%2D84%C2%B0F).
• https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-sampling-locations-in-Sichuan-Basin-where-purple-soils-were-mainly-distributed-JF_fig1_321802084

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