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PROCESS The three paintings are shown successively: looking at the Qinling Mountains from a distance, going deep into the forest, entering the cave, and looking at the sacred trees of the Qinling Mountains from a close distance. When painting the picture of entering the deep forest, I looked for the local legends and customs of the Qinling Mountains, and added some related sculptures to give people a sense of destruction, mystery and fear. Legends about the Qinling Mountains: • Humanities Village Ancient village: An ancient mountain village, houses in the style of Ming and Qing dynasties are built on steep hillsides with mixed stones, the roads in the village are blue SLATE slopes, and many residential walls are mixed tomb bricks. • Mystery and legend Yin soldier legend: Jiagou according to Yin soldiers march road, there is the Northern Wei army missing legend of the southern and northern Dynasties, Mr. Qingfeng water said there are yellow spring waterfall and the earth is connected, y...

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 PROCESS The last area to be explored is the Qinling Mountains in central China. The geographical location and characteristics of Qinling Mountains are: Location: It is located between 32° -34 ° north latitude, between Guanzhong Plain and Hanshui Valley in the south, and the watershed of Jialing River, Luohe River, Wei River and Hanshui River Features: Mountain scale: stretching more than 1600 kilometers from east to west, up to 100-150 kilometers wide from north to south, huge scale. Climate: It is the dividing line between the 800 mm iso-precipitation line, the humid zone and the semi-humid zone, and the 0℃ isotherm line in January, which blocks the water vapor of the Pacific Ocean in summer and the cold air of Siberia in winter, making the climate difference between the north and the south obvious. Vegetation and animals: There is a reputation of "North-South plant collection, North-South biological species library", subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest to the south, ...

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  process Finally, entering the internal environment of the palace, I will first introduce the details of the West Queen Mother. The West Queen Mother is an important mythological figure in ancient China. In the record of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the West Queen Mother is one of the most complex themes in ancient Chinese mythology. There are many theories about her origin, which are recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, the Record of the Grand Historian, the Book of Han, the Book of the Later Han and the Book of Huainan Zi. 1. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there is a god named Queen Mother of the West. Living in the far west, west of Yushan or north of Kunlun, the West Queen Mother is a half-human, half-animal creature with a leopard tail, tiger teeth, and a jade "victory card" in her tangled hair. 2. According to Huainan Zi, the mother of the West King gave Yi a potion of fairy medicine, but Yi's wife Chang 'e stole it and fled to the moon. 3. ...

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 PROCESS Keep going and the protagonist will arrive at the West Queen Mother Palace (the introduction about the West Queen Mother will be mentioned later). Because the West Queen Mother Palace exists in reality, I first searched the architectural modeling of the palace in reality. The picture shows the stone tablet at the gate of the West Queen Mother's Palace in real life. West Queen Mother Palace in reality Initially, I wanted to draw the door directly based on the picture content, like this: But the book describes the appearance of the West Queen Mother's palace as follows: ”Location and environment: The Western Queen Mother's palace is located in Tamuta, located in the vast Gobi deep, surrounded by a devil city, surrounded by grotesque rocks, wind howling, yellow sand all over the terrain complex and dangerous. Architectural appearance: The overall architectural style of the West Queen Mother Palace is strange, combining the architectural characteristics of the Western ...

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PROCESS From the content of the book, I can learn that although we are in a desert area, the more we go inside, there will be a thick forest like a swimming pool. The original text of the book says: “No sooner had we moved than it became cloudy again, as if it were going to rain. I feel in my heart, the mystery of nature is really endless, in the depths of the arid Qaidam Gobi, there is such a wet and rainy oasis, it is a natural creation, eclectic. This canyon is not like the kind of Yadan canyon seen in the Devil's City, not carved by the wind, as if it is a rift valley generated by geological movement, the valley floor is not flat, grotesque rocks, layers, rock walls as if carved by a sharp knife. However, if you ask me, I agree with Fat Man that the terrain here is really like a meteor crater, a rift is like a crack in the earth's crust when a meteorite fell, which was probably much deeper when it was created, and gradually weathered and filled in. Such canyons are not the ...