梅岭

梅嶺

Méilǐng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Plum Ridge, another name for the Dayu Range on the Jiangxi-Guangdong border
2 Meiling, a range of hills near Nanchang, Jiangxi

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Examples

HSK 6

每到冬天，梅岭上的梅花就开了。

Měi dào dōngtiān, Méilǐng shàng de méihuā jiù kāi le.

Every winter the plum trees on Plum Ridge come into blossom.

HSK 7-9

梅岭在江西和广东交界的地方。

Méilǐng zài Jiāngxī hé Guǎngdōng jiāojiè de dìfang.

Plum Ridge lies on the border between Jiangxi and Guangdong.

Tips

history

The ridge is 大庾岭, one of the 五岭. Its pass, 梅关, was cut by 张九龄 in 716 and for a thousand years carried the main road between the Yangtze valley and Guangzhou.

culture

A Ming story collected by 冯梦龙, 'Chen Congshan Loses His Wife at Plum Ridge', is set here: a monkey spirit carries off a traveller's wife as the couple cross the ridge.

Stroke Order

梅 méi

岭 lǐng