1st Grotto-Heaven: Mount Wangwu第一 王屋山洞（小有清虚之天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Henan · Jiyuan · The area around Tiantan Peak, Mount Wangwu
- Coordinates
- 35.15, 112.26 Map ↗
- School
- Shangqing (Highest Clarity) School
- First built
- Sima Chengzhen, Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth (during the Kaiyuan era of the Tang); Du Guangting, Record of Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Marchmounts, Rivers and Famous Mountains (end of the Tang) · The Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands system took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties; the roster of names was fixed in the Tang by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting. Present-day identifications are conjectural.
Overview
The first of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, said to measure ten thousand li in circumference and titled the "Heaven of Lesser Existence and Clarified Emptiness," governed by Lord Wang of Xicheng. Today it is Mount Wangwu in Jiyuan, Henan. In the Tang, Sima Chengzhen received an imperial commission to reside here and built the Yangtai Temple, making it a center of the Shangqing school; the mountain also has Tiantan Peak and the Ziwei Palace, among other sites. See the entry "Mount Wangwu" for further detail.