'Yangping Pass') is a town in central Ningqiang County, in southwestern Shaanxi province, China.
The town has an area of 116 square kilometres (45 sq mi), in which there are 1 residential community (社区) and 20 villages holding a total population of 26,000.
[1] The town is located 27.3 kilometres (17.0 mi) from the county seat and is near the trisection point of Shaanxi, Sichuan and Gansu, in the upper Jialing River Valley.
During the Three Kingdoms period, a number of military engagements were waged in and around Yangpingguan, including Cao Cao's conquest of Zhang Lu in the Battle of Yangping, Liu Bei's Hanzhong Campaign and the Battle of Mount Dingjun at the nearby Dingjun Mountain.
Why is the place name three springs, only because in its territory there is a three-spring Longmen cave, there are three springs, Longmen cave, there are a large number of literati poems, but later during the cultural revolution was destroyed.