Greater Khingan

 ( Mountain Ranges Of China ) 

The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng; IPA: ) is a volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of the Donghu people, the Xianbei. Hou Hanshu volume 90 "鮮卑者，亦東胡之支也，別依鮮卑山，故因號焉" "the Xianbei people branched off from the so-called 'Eastern Hu' and came to settle around Mt. Xianbei after which name they were designated" translated by Toh (2005) Weishu volume 1

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Geography The range extends from north to south. It is the watershed between the Nen River and Songhua River river systems to the east, and the Amur and its tributaries to the northwest.

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Population Its slopes are a relatively rich grazing area. The Khitan people lived on the eastern slopes before establishing the Liao dynasty in the tenth century. Oroqen people, a Tungusic peoples, live along the Greater and Lesser Khingan range in northeastern China and belong to the oldest autochthonous populations of the region. On the western slopes lived the nomadic people, who raised sheep and camels and used the Mongolian plateau for their pastoralist economy.

F.W. Mote (1999). 9780674012127, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674012127

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In fiction

The Greater Khingan Range is a key setting in the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem (novel) by Chinese author Liu Cixin.

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See also

• Daxing'anling Prefecture
• Lesser Khingan
• Xing'an
• Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
• 1987 Black Dragon fire, wildfire in China

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Further reading

Categories: Mountain Ranges Of China, Landforms Of Inner Mongolia, Xianbei

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