A long time ago, the myth goes, a tiger that hadn’t eaten for weeks and weeks leapt across the Yangzi River from a pinnacle of more than 2600 meters to chase after the skinniest, scrawniest member of the Cervidae family.
This tiger lived to tell the tale, named the canyon swallowing that part of the river after his species, and went on a pre-historic book tour, forever living in the lap of luxury and eating only the fattest of the free-range deer.
Thus, Tiger Leaping Gorge got its name.
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