Most people know that pandas are from China. But they only live in a small wildest area of far western China,Southwestern China, notably the Qionglai, Daxiangling, Xiaoxionging, and Liang Mountains in Sichuan Province: also the Min Mountains and Qinling Range in Shaanci Province.
The ridge lunged upward like a dragon's spine bristling with fir and birch, and clouds were low and flying out from the mountains. Snow from a late-winter storm balanced on boughs and logs. When a riffle of wind stirred the branches, the snow drifted down in crystal veils that added a ghostlike radiance to the forest. Bamboo grew in the understory, the crowded ranks of stems claiming the hillside so completely that the light beneath the bamboo's canopy was a translucent undersea green. The sunless scent of moss and moldering wood choked the gloom. The bamboo was rigid with frost, and a dense silence hung over the ridge; there was no movement and seemingly no life. But it was that in this silence, you can find pandas.