Famous Taoist mountains Qingcheng Mountain and Maoshan Mountain

Mondo Tourism Updated on 2024-03-04

Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan is located in the west of Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province, and is known as "Qingcheng in the world". Mount Qingcheng is one of the important birthplaces of Taoism, and it is also the fifth largest cave among the ten major caves of Taoism. Legend has it that the ancestor Zhang Daoling preached here and was foundedIt is the way of the alliance。During the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, Qingcheng Mountain was occupied by monks, and it was not returned to Taoism until the Tang Xuanzong period.

Qingcheng Mountain has a long history, and according to legend, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor has it from time to timeNing FengziLiving in Qingcheng Mountain, he once taught the Yellow Emperor the "Dragon Technique" of resisting the wind and clouds, and the Yellow Emperor built an altar to worship itWuyue ZhangrenTherefore, it is also called by later generationsQingcheng Mountain is Zhangren Mountain, and build a view (Zhangren view) to commemorate.

In the early years of Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling enteredHeming Mountain (now in Dayi County, Chengdu City) cultivates the road, the establishment of the Five Buckets of Rice Dao, that is, the Dao of the Heavenly Master. In the second year of Han'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (143), two years after writing the twenty-four Taoist books, Zhang Daoling arrived at Qingcheng Mountain and preached here. Du Guangting, a famous Taoist priest in the late Tang Dynasty, lived in seclusion in Baiyunxi in Qingcheng Mountain for a long time, and compiled and wrote a large number of Taoist books. Later generations built "Du Guangting Reading Platform" on the bank of Baiyun River.

The existing main Taoist temples of Qingcheng Mountain are:Changdao Temple (Tianshi Cave), Patriarch Palace, Shangqing Palace, Laojun Pavilion, Jianfu Palace, Yuanming Palace, Yuqing PalaceWait. Jianfu Palace is located at the foot of Zhangren Peak. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda once prayed for the Song Emperor here, and the emperor gave him the special name "Huiqing Jianfu Palace". The Patriarch Palace, also known as the Zhenwu Palace, was founded in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty poets Du Guangting and Xue Chang, and the Song Dynasty Zhang Yu all lived in seclusion here. Tang Ruizong's daughter, Princess Yuzhen, also cultivated here in order to become an immortal. In the hall, there are statues of gods such as Zhenwu Patriarch, Lu Dongbin, Tie Guan Li, etc., as well as murals of eight immortals, poems and inscriptions.

Maoshan is in the southwest of Jiangsu ProvinceIt is bordered by the Tianmu Mountains in the south and the hills of Ningzhen in the north. It protrudes between Jurong, Dantu, Jintan, Liyang, Lishui and Gaochun, and is slightly S-shaped.

According to legend, the people of the Gaoxin era were in the exhibition of Shanggong and cultivated in Fulongdi, Juqu Mountain (now Yuchen in Maoshan Town), which has been nearly 5,000 years ago; Guo Sichao, a native of Yan in the pre-Qin period, also practiced in Yuchenguan, and was later named Taiwei Baoguang Zhenren; In the Qin period, Li Mingzhen cultivated in the ancient alchemy (gold) courtyard (now Qianyuanguan), and the well still exists. Western Han Dynasty,The three brothers of the Mao family in Xianyang, Shaanxi (Mao Ying, Mao Gu, and Mao Zhen) were at the foot of Juqu Mountain (now Xiabo Palace), practicing and doing goodBenefit the world. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jurong peopleGe Hong cultivated in Maoshan and hugged Pufeng, wrote books and said, constructed various methods of cultivating to become immortals, and advocated the idea of "my life is in my absence from heaven".And created a set of theories for cultivating into "immortals", which was later called the Danding faction.

Song Lizong Jiaxi three years (1239) orderThe 35th generation of Heavenly Master Zhang KedaPreside over the three mountains (Longhu Mountain, Gesoap Mountain, Maoshan Mountain) Fu Gong. Maoshan is one of the three major Fu schools in China. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Taoist schools such as Tianshi, Shangqing, and Lingbao, which were originally parallel to the south of the Yangtze River, gradually merged and merged with the Fu GongRighteous faction

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