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Siguniang Mountains are as beautiful as their name, but uncovering
their veils and appreciating their many charms can be exhausting.
Located in Xiaojing County of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous
Prefecture in Western Sichuan Province, the Siguniang Mountains are
about 220 kilometres away from Chengdu. The mountains stand in the
remote distance, like four beautiful Tibetan girls dressed in white
scarves. Legend has it that many years ago, there lived a mountain
god named baling who had four beautiful daughters, and the youngest
was the tallest and had the most graceful figure. A devil admired
the girl¡¯s beauty and wanted to marry them. So the devil suggested
to the mountain god that they fight a duel.. If he won, he would get
the four girls. The mountain god was killed by the devil and the
four girls fled and eventually died from cold weather. Their bodies
became the Siguniang Mountains and their father became the Balang
Mountains. But another tale holds that the four girls were later
saved by a hunter and became fairies. The siguniang Mountains
resemble four graceful fairies wearing white mantles and waving to
guests from afar.
The Siguniang Mountains area consists of the Siguniang Mountains,
Shuangqiao Gully, Changping Gully and Haizi Gully. The mountains are
6,250 meters high, reputed by some to be the ¡°Oriental Alps.¡± Snow
covers the mountaintop all the year round. Under a blue sky and
white clouds, the dark rocks and clean rivers are coated with green
moss and various flowers, or golden grass and leaves, milky fog,
white snow and crystal-like ice.
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