In Tibetan, "Zhumu" means goddess, and "Langma" means third. Because there are four other peaks near Mount Everest, Mount Everest ranks third, so it is called Mount Everest.
Mount Everest (commonly known as Everest) is the main peak of the Himalayas and the highest mountain in the world. It is located on the border between China and Nepal.
The north is in Tingri County, Tibet, China (the west slope is in Tashi Clan Township, Tingri County, and the east slope is in Qudang Township, Tingri County, where there is the Mount Everest Base Camp), and the south is in Nepal, which is the world’s largest mountain. The highest peak, it is also the center of China's Mount Everest Nature Reserve and Nepal National Park, which spans four counties.
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The Tibetan word "jo-mo glang-ma rib" (Qomolangma) means "Mother of the Earth". In Tibetan, Jo-mo "Zhumu" means goddess, and glang-ma "Langma" should be understood as female elephant (in Tibetan, glang-ma has two meanings: alpine willow and female elephant).
Mythology says that Mount Everest is the palace where the five-ring child ga lives. However, there is another English saying that appears many times in middle school textbooks, namely Mount Qomolangma or Qomolangma Mount.
This mountain peak is generally called Mount Everest or Mount Everest in the West to commemorate George Mount Everest, director of the Survey of India who was responsible for measuring the Himalayas when the British occupied Nepal. Phil (George Everest).
The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which means "goddess of the sky". This name was given by the Nepalese government in the 1960s. Previously, the Nepali people had not given this mountain a name, and the government did not choose a transliterated name due to political reasons.
The "Lotus Relic" unearthed in 1258 is called "Lachi", and the Kagyu monk Sangji Gyaltsen's "Milarepa Song Collection" calls the location of Mount Everest "the most snowy place". In 1717, surveyors of the Qing Dynasty surveyed and mapped the "Imperial Map" in the Mount Everest area and named it after "Zumlangma Alin". "Alin" is Manchu, meaning "mountain".
In 1952, the Chinese government changed its name to Mount Everest. In 1952, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Administration of Publication of the Central People's Government of China announced that "Mount Ephesus" should be renamed "Mount Everest".
In 2002, "People's Daily" published an article arguing that the English name "Mount Everest" used in the Western world should be called its Tibetan name "Mount Everest". The newspaper believes that China's map 280 years ago, when the West used the English name "Mount Ephesus", had already marked it as "Everest". Taiwan has traditionally called this mountain "Mountain of Everest".
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