Editing Changbai Mountains (section)

==History==
[[File:Manchu veritable records - Changbaishan.jpg|thumb|Painting from the [[Manchu Veritable Records]]|left|295x295px]]
The mountain was first recorded in the ''[[Classic of Mountains and Seas]]'' under the name Buxian Shan ({{zh|c=不咸山}}). It is also called Shanshan Daling ({{zh|t=單單大嶺}}) in the ''[[Book of the Later Han]]''. In the ''[[New Book of Tang]]'', it was called Taibai Shan ({{zh|c=太白山}}).<ref name="NewTang">Second Canonical Book of the Tang Dynasty. {{lang|zh-hant|《[[:s:zh:新唐書/卷219|新唐書.北狄渤海傳]]》:"契丹盡忠殺營州都督趙翽反，有舍利乞乞仲象者，與靺鞨酋乞四比羽及高麗餘種東走，度遼水，保太白山之東北，阻奧婁河，樹壁自固。"}} (English translation: [[Khitan people|Khitan]] general Li Jinzhong killed Zhao Hui, the commanding officer of [[Yin Zhou]]. Officer [[Dae Jung-sang]], with [[Mohe people|Mohe]] chieftain [[Qisi Piyu]] and [[Goguryeo]] remnants, escaped to the east, crossed Liao River, guarded the northeast part of the Grand Old White Mountain, blocked Oulou River, built walls to protect themselves.)</ref> The current Chinese name Changbai Shan was first used in the [[Liao dynasty]] (916–1125) of the [[Khitan people|Khitans]]<ref name="Liao">"Records of [[Khitan Empire]]". 《[[:zh:契丹国志|契丹國志]]》："長白山在冷山東南千餘里......禽獸皆白。"(English translation: "Changbai Mountain is a thousand miles to the southeast of Cold Mountain...Birds and animals there are all white.")</ref> and then the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] (1115–1234) of the [[Jurchens]].<ref name="Jin">"Canonical History Records of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty". {{lang|zh-hant|《[[:s:zh:金史/卷35|金史.卷第三十五]]》："長白山在興王之地，禮合尊崇，議封爵，建廟宇。""厥惟長白，載我金德，仰止其高，實惟我舊邦之鎮。"}} (English translation: "Changbai Mountain is in old Jurchen land, highly respectful, suitable for building temples. Only the Changbai Mountain can carry the Jin Dynasty's spirit; It is so high; It is a part of our old land.")</ref>
{{Infobox Chinese
| t = 長白山脈
| s = 长白山脉
| p = Chángbái Shānmài
| w = Ch'ang-pai Shan-mai
| l = Perpetually White Mountains
| northkorea = yes
| hangul = 장백산맥
| hanja = 長白山脈
| rr = Jangbaek sanmaek
| mr = Changbaek sanmaek
| mnc = {{ManchuSibeUnicode|ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ ᡧᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ|style=max-height:1.5em;text-align:left;word-wrap:normal}}
| mnc_rom = Golmin šanggiyan alin
| order = st
}}

The range represents the mythical birthplace of [[Bukūri Yongšon]], ancestor of [[Nurhaci]]<ref>愛新覺羅·瀛生《滿語口語音典》</ref> and the [[Aisin Gioro]] imperial family, who were the founders of the [[Qing dynasty]] of China. The Chinese name literally means "Perpetually-White Mountain Region".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Crossley|first1=Pamela Kyle|title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology|date=February 2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520234246|page=202}}</ref> The imperial family regarded the mountain as their traditional homeland.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/chinesestateatbo0000unse |title=The Chinese state at the borders |date=2007 |location=Vancouver  |publisher= UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-1333-4|editor-first1=Diana|editor-last1=Lary}}</ref>{{page needed|date=May 2025}}

The Qing emperor [[Hong Taiji]] claimed that their progenitor, Bukūri Yongšon<ref name="Crossley2000">{{cite book|author=Pamela Kyle Crossley|title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn4iv_RJv8oC&pg=PA198|date=15 February 2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-92884-8|pages=198–}}</ref> (布庫里雍順), was conceived from a virgin birth. According to the legend, three heavenly maidens, namely Enggulen (恩古倫), Jenggulen (正古倫) and Fekulen (佛庫倫), were bathing at a lake called Bulhūri Omo near the Changbai Mountains. A magpie dropped a piece of red fruit near Fekulen, who ate it. She then became pregnant with Bukūri Yongšon. However, another older version of the story by the Hurha (Hurka) tribe member Muksike recorded in 1635 contradicts Hongtaiji's version on location, claiming that it was in [[Heilongjiang]] province close to the [[Amur river]] where Bulhuri lake was located where the "heavenly maidens" took their bath.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Huang |first1=Pei |title=New Light on The Origins of The Manchus |journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |date=1990 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=239–282 |doi=10.2307/2719229 |jstor=2719229 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2719229 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807074339/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2719229 |archive-date=2020-08-07 |access-date=2020-11-05 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Nowadays the famous [[Yabuli Ski Resort]] is located in the Changbai Mountains.<ref>[https://www.snow-online.com/ski-resort/sun-mountain--yabuli.html Yabuli • Ski Holiday • Reviews • Skiing - Snow-Online]</ref>