2nd Grotto-Heaven: Mount Weiyu第二 委羽山洞（大有空明之天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Huangyan, Taizhou · Mount Weiyu, southwest of Huangyan District (the area of present-day Mount Fang and the Dayou Palace)
- Coordinates
- 28.62, 121.24 Map ↗
- 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 second of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, ten thousand li in circumference and titled the "Heaven of Great Existence and Empty Brightness," governed by Lord Qingtong. Today it is Mount Weiyu in Huangyan, Taizhou, Zhejiang; at the foot of the mountain stands the Dayou Palace (built in the Song and repeatedly restored, still extant today), where the Han-dynasty figure Liu Fenglin is said to have cultivated the Dao; the name "Weiyu" (Discarded Feathers) is said to derive from the image of a crane immortal shedding its feathers here.