# Arshan

A Thousand-Kilometre Reunion: Border Troops, Family Sacrifice and the Song of the Triangular Mountain

A family reunion at a remote border post in the Greater Khingan Range illustrates the human cost and symbolic power of China’s frontier defence. After a 40-hour journey, a soldier who has served 19 years met his wife and daughters at Triangular Mountain, a site steeped in local military memory and used by state media to underscore the virtue of sacrifice.