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The ideographs for
the word China literally mean Middle Kingdom , the concept of China
was that territory bounded on one side by an inhospitable terrain
steppes ,deserts , high plateau and lots of mountains inhabited by
people who were , in Han eyes , of inferior cultural achievements
. The Chinese for centuries saw their homeland as the centre of the
world . And as they expanded out of their Yellow River heartland ,
moving mostly south , they occupied similar alluvial plains until
they ran into mountains formidable enough to contain their mass migration
. As a result , although the Han reside in every corner within the
boundaries of contemporary China , they still mostly occupy a middle
posittion between the sea and the mountains .
Off all the borderland provinces of China , indeed one could
even say of all the provinces of China ,none can boast of as much
diversity and attractions-physical cultural and ethnic -as the southwestern
province of China . With 394,000sq km it is the nation's six largest
. For 4061 km it's westren and southern bounaries are international
borders -with Myanmar west and southwest , with Laos and Vietnam south
/ On its southeast side lies the Guangxi province , in the latter
province rain and clouds dominate the weather and supposedly when
one of the Nanzhao princes of Dali visited the Tang court he told
the emperor his land was south of raining weather . The Chinese Emperor
then dubbed that territory ,Yunnan--south of the clouds .
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