Lüliang Mountains

{{short description|Mountain range in central China}}

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| piccap = The Lüliang Mountains in 2009. To its east lie the Fen River valley, the Taihangs, and the North China Plain, here filled with pollution.

| s = {{linktext|吕梁|山脉}}

| t = {{linktext|呂梁|山脈}}

| p = Lǚliáng Shānmài

| l = {{nowrap|Spiny Ridge Mountain Range}}

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The Lüliang Mountains are a mountain range in central China, dividing Shanxi's Fen River valley from the Yellow River.{{cite book

| last = Miller

| first = T.

| title = The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci

| publisher = Brill

| series = Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law

| year = 2020

| isbn = 978-1-68417-046-3

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zfcFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44

| access-date = 22 December 2020

| page = 44

}} The range forces the Yellow River southwards on the eastern side of the Ordos Loop but tapers off to the south, where the Fen turns west to join the Yellow River before the Qin Mountains turn the combined river sharply eastward at its confluence with the Wei at Tongguan in Shaanxi.

File:Shang Bronze Alligator.JPG-era bronze alligator discovered in the Lüliang Range]]