10th Grotto-Heaven: Mount Kuocang第十 括苍山洞（成德隐玄之天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Xianju, Taizhou / Linhai · The Kuocang mountain range; its main peak, Mishailang, lies between Linhai and Xianju
- Coordinates
- 28.75, 120.85 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 tenth of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens, three hundred li in circumference and titled the "Heaven of Accomplished Virtue and Concealed Mystery," governed by Lord Juanzi of the Northern Sea. Today it is Mount Kuocang in Taizhou, Zhejiang (spanning Linhai and Xianju), one of the principal peaks of eastern Zhejiang; since the Jin and Tang it has been a site of Daoist cultivation, and the mountain contains the Kuocang Cave (in the townships below Xianju), among other sites.