Baishi Mountain, Guiping桂平白石山（三十六小洞天）
- Type
- Daoist Sacred Mountains
- Location
- China · Guangxi · Guiping, Guigang · Madong Town, Guiping City
- Coordinates
- 23.25, 110.15 Map ↗
- First built
- Tang–Song · The twenty-first of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, the 'Xiule Changzhen Grotto-Heaven'; the mountain has the remains of the Shousheng Monastery and the Huixian Temple
- Heritage status
- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Scenic Area
Overview
Baishi Mountain (White Rock Mountain) lies southeast of Guiping; its two peaks face each other like a screen of white jade, and Daoist texts list it as the twenty-first of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, the 'Xiule Changzhen Grotto-Heaven,' a renowned Daoist grotto-heaven within Guangxi. Temples including the Huixian Temple and the Shousheng Monastery were built on the mountain from the Tang and Song onward; the Ming-dynasty geographer Xu Xiake traveled here and recorded it in his Yuexi youji (Travel Diary of Western Guangdong); the mountain preserves Ming- and Qing-dynasty cliff-face inscriptions and elixir-refining remains. It is today a scenic area of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Historically, Daoism in Guangxi has been dominated by folk Daoism and the Zhengyi lineage, with Baishi Mountain in Guiping and Duqiao Mountain in Rongxian (the twentieth Grotto-Heaven) as its two great grotto-heavens.
Highlights
- Xiule Changzhen Grotto-Heaven
- Remains of the Huixian Temple
- Xu Xiake's travel diary