5th Grotto-Heaven: Mount Qingcheng第五 青城山洞（宝仙九室之天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Sichuan · Dujiangyan, Chengdu · Mount Qingcheng
- Coordinates
- 30.9, 103.57 Map ↗
- School
- Way of the Celestial Masters (Tianshi Dao)
- 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 fifth of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, two thousand li in circumference and titled the "Heaven of the Nine Chambers of Treasured Immortals," governed by the Elder of Qingcheng (Ning Fengzi). Today it is Mount Qingcheng in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, one of the birthplaces of the Way of the Celestial Masters and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. See the entry "Mount Qingcheng" for further detail.