Blessed Land 18: Mount Jinting福地十八 金庭山
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Anhui (alternatively Zhejiang) · Chaohu / Shengzhou · The Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth places it in Chao County, Luzhou; some say it is Mount Jinting in Shengzhou
- Coordinates
- 31.6, 117.85 Map ↗
- First built
- Same as above · The system of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands took shape during the Eastern Jin and the Southern Dynasties; the Tang Daoists Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting fixed the list of names. The precise present-day location is a matter of scholarly conjecture.
Overview
The eighteenth of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: "It lies in Chao County, Luzhou, also called Mount Ziwei, and is governed by the Immortal Ma." It is generally identified with present-day Chaohu, Anhui, though some identify it instead with Mount Jinting in Shengzhou, Zhejiang.