在山西西南部影响黄河急转弯的地方,有一带不很高的山脈,叫作中条山。这是一带狭长的、走向东北的、约成弧形的山脈,它的弧顶指向东南。这是一带西北翹起,东南沉陷的块断山脈。因而在地形上是不对称的。它的西北山坡就显得陡些,东南山坡平些,流向西北的河谷就短些,流向东南的河谷就长些。弧顶在胡家峪附近。弧顶西南的山嶺走向南西西,东北的山嶺走向北北东。中条山脈,从西北到东南,一般不厚,约十几公里到二十公里,从西南到东北,顺黄河延伸颇远,可达二百公里,由于流向东南的河流剥蚀形成的向东南绵延的支脈很多,延伸远的可达数十公里。如果把这一部分也算上作为中条山的宽厚,它就不算 In the southwestern part of Shanxi Province, where the sharp turn of the Yellow River is affected, there is a not very high mountain range called Zhongtiaoshan. It is a narrow, northeast, arc-shaped mountain with its top pointing southeast. This is a block off the northwest tilt, southeast block fault mountains. Therefore, the topography is not symmetrical. Its northwest slopes appear steep, southeast slopes somewhat, to the northwest of the valley is shorter, the flow to the southeast of the valley longer. Arc in the vicinity of Hu Jia Yu. The top of the arc to the southwest of the South West, the northeast mountains to the north-east. Zhongtiao Mountains, from northwest to southeast, generally not thick, about ten kilometers to twenty kilometers, from southwest to northeast, along the Yellow River extends quite far, up to two hundred kilometers, due to flow to the southeast river erosion to the southeast stretch A lot of branches, extending tens of kilometers far. If this part is also counted as generous as Zhongtiao Mountain, it does not count