resembles tiny strips of dried apples whitened by the sun.</p>
              <p class="gra">The mountain is also a sanctuary for animals, many 
              of them rare animals that live at different temperature levels. 
              She is home to 30 kinds of animals protected by the state, such as 
              the wild ass, the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, the lesser panda, the 
              forest musk deer, the clouded leopard, the blood pheasant, the 
              silver pheasant, and the spotted, yellowish civet cat.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is one of Yunnan's protected nature reserves, 
              and a certain fee is charged to those for making scientific 
              investigations, collecting animal and plant specimens, taking 
              photos and shooting films.</p>
              <p class="gra">Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is yet to be conquered by 
              a human, albeit mountaineering teams from the United States, 
              Japan, China, and other countries have tried.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is an awesome mountain, a whimsical mountain.</p>
              <p class="gra">She even has green glittering snow. You can see it 
              from Yunshanping ( Dragon Spruce Meadow )if you look westward. The 
              only explanation that has emerged is that it may be caused by 
              crystals or algae. And she has a glacier at the lowest altitude in 
              China that is 7.5 miles wide and 21.7 miles long.</p>
              <p class="gra">She has attracted the attention of many scholars 
              and travelers. Early in 1837, the French writer Bacier introduced 
              Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in his acclaimed book entitled &quot; 
              Universe &quot;.</p>
              <p class="gra">And seven years ago the chairman of the 
              international Mountainous Region led a team to the mountain for 
              field work.</p>
              <p class="gra">In Lijiang City you can have a magnificent view of 
              Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, with the main peak thrust into the 
              clouds, the Old Man Peak standing out on the right and Black Snow 
              Peak on its left.</p>
              <p class="gra"><b>Yunshanping (Dragon Spruce Meadow)</b></p>
              <p class="gra">Walled in by dragon spruces, the alpine meadow is 
              truly a God - made &quot; snow mountain garden &quot; carpeted with 
              thousands of colourful flowers and green grasses.</p>
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              <p class="gra">The 13 peaks of 18,360-foot Jade Dragon Snow 
              Mountain, a treasure of wild plants and rare animals, are like a 
              silver dragon lying in the clouds.</p>
              <p class="gra">Awesome and unconquered, they dominate the Lijiang 
              Plain. Some have described Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as a radiant 
              cornet crowning Lijiang's head.</p>
              <p class="gra">Scientists say she arose from an ancient 
              geosyncline 230 million years ago in an age when dinosaurs began 
              to increase and formed her present shape sometime during the last 
              600,000 years, even as late as 12,000 years ago.</p>
              <p class="gra">Storms frequently rage around the glaciers and 
              silver-gray rocks and eternal snowfields of her five primary 
              peaks.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is a sanctuary to animals that know not the 
              scent of man and a flower kingdom that was old when the Gardens of 
              Babylon were new.</p>
              <p class="gra">In the alpine meadows of her lower slopes, lonely 
              herders sing to their goats and set the wild echoes flying with 
              the music of their reed pipes.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is a botanist's paradise, a &quot; kingdom of 
              medicinal materials.&quot; Of the 1 3,000 kinds of plants in Yunnan, 
              more than half of them can be found on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain 
              as well as 400 types of trees in 20 primeval forest communities.<br>
              On her slopes grow such trees as fir, dragon spruce, Chinese 
              hemlock, Chinese larch, and fragrant camphor.</p>
              <p class="gra">She has more than 50 species of azalea, 60 kinds of 
              primroses, eight species of poppies and 20 lilies, four species of 
              peonies, five camellia, 50 species of rough gentian, and six kinds 
              of flowering crabapple. From April to June the azaleas turn the 
              mountain into a riot of brilliant color. And in autumn blue rough 
              gentian flowers cover her marshlands. She is decorated with 
              blooming flowers 10 months of the year.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is home to a rare tea - Wild Snow Tea -which 
              the Naxi insist is good for high blood pressure. It ripens in the 
              winter time and Naxi men, women and children flock to the mountain 
              in November, December and January to pick it. When dried, it 
              resembles tiny strips of dried apples whitened by the sun.</p>
              <p class="gra">The mountain is also a sanctuary for animals, many 
              of them rare animals that live at different temperature levels. 
              She is home to 30 kinds of animals protected by the state, such as 
              the wild ass, the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, the lesser panda, the 
              forest musk deer, the clouded leopard, the blood pheasant, the 
              silver pheasant, and the spotted, yellowish civet cat.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is one of Yunnan's protected nature reserves, 
              and a certain fee is charged to those for making scientific 
              investigations, collecting animal and plant specimens, taking 
              photos and shooting films.</p>
              <p class="gra">Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is yet to be conquered by 
              a human, albeit mountaineering teams from the United States, 
              Japan, China, and other countries have tried.</p>
              <p class="gra">She is an awesome mountain, a whimsical mountain.</p>
              <p class="gra">She even has green glittering snow. You can see it 
              from Yunshanping ( Dragon Spruce Meadow )if you look westward. The 
              only explanation that has emerged is that it may be caused by 
              crystals or algae. And she has a glacier at the lowest altitude in 
              China that is 7.5 miles wide and 21.7 miles long.</p>
              <p class="gra">She has attracted the attention of many scholars 
              and travelers. Early in 1837, the French writer Bacier introduced 
              Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in his acclaimed book entitled &quot; 
              Universe &quot;.</p>
              <p class="gra">And seven years ago the chairman of the 
              international Mountainous Region led a team to the mountain for 
              field work.</p>
              <p class="gra">In Lijiang City you can have a magnificent view of 
              Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, with the main peak thrust into the 
              clouds, the Old Man Peak standing out on the right and Black Snow 
              Peak on its left.</p>
              <p class="gra"><b>Yunshanping (Dragon Spruce Meadow)</b></p>
              <p class="gra">Walled in by dragon spruces, the alpine meadow is 
              truly a God - made &quot; snow mountain garden &quot; carpeted with 
              thousands of colourful flowers and green grasses.</p>
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