Mount Song, the oldest independent mountain system in China

 

About 4.6 billion years ago, earth was a planet surrounded by seawater. About 3.6 billion years ago, hot magma from deep inside the Earth broke through the hard crust and spewed out. When it met the sea and solidified, Songshan was born, becoming one of the earliest landmasses on Earth. After the song Yang Movement 2.3 billion years ago, the Zhongyue Movement about 1.8 billion years ago, and the Shaolin Movement about 500 million years ago, Songshan gradually evolved into what it is today.

距今约46亿年前，地球是一个表面被海水包裹着的星球。约36亿年前，地球深部灼热的岩浆冲破坚硬的地壳喷涌而出，遇海水而凝固，嵩山，从此诞生，成为地球上最早的陆块之一。历经23亿年前的“嵩阳运动”，约18亿年前后的“中岳运动”，约5亿年前后的“少林运动”，嵩山逐渐演变成今天的样子。

 

 

Scientists have discovered a total of six ancient landmasses in the early days of the earth,while Songshan mountain is one of the earliest six ancient landmasses discovered on the Earth

目前，科学家在地球共发现了六个地球成陆初期的古陆块，而嵩山是地球上最早出现的六个古陆块之一。

In 1988, in order to explore the formation of Songshan, Chinese and German scientists cooperated to take zircons from the middle Archean acidic volcanic rocks in Songshan, and estimated their age to be about 3 billion years.

1988年，为了探求嵩山形成的奥秘，由中、德科学家合作，取嵩山中太古代酸性火山岩的锆石，测得其年龄约为30亿年。

Considering that there is a process of the formation of songshan continental core or small landmass, the amount of 500 million years is added, so it is a scientific statement to say the age of Songshan is 3 billion or 3.5 billion years.

考虑到嵩山陆核或小陆块形成有一个过程，故加上了5亿年的推断量，所以，说嵩山的年龄30亿或35亿年，都属于科学的说法。

But the former is the measured age, and the latter is the inferred age. Thus, Songshan is almost as old as the beginning of the earth's landmass, so ancient that people call it "the ancestor of ten thousand mountains".

不过前者是实测年龄，后者为推断年龄。这样，嵩山的年龄几乎可以与地球成陆的起始时间相近，如此古老，人们据此称之为“万山之祖”。