Jīngshān

The Jīng Mountains rise across western Húběi, their forested ridges and valleys associated with the early history of Chǔ. Tradition tells that Xióng Yì, an ancestor of the rulers of Chǔ, was enfeoffed in this mountain country. The range became part of the remembered landscape of a state that grew from the hills into a power of the Yangtze basin.