Mount Weibao巍宝山
- Type
- Daoist Sacred Mountains
- Location
- China · Yunnan · Weishan, Dali · 10 km south of the county seat of Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County
- Coordinates
- 25.14, 100.32 Map ↗
- School
- Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen
- First built
- Tang (Nanzhao) · Tradition holds that the Nanzhao founding ancestor Xi Nuluo farmed here; Daoist temples proliferated in the Ming and Qing, making it a famed mountain of Yunnan Daoism; the Changchun Cave is a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
- Heritage status
- Changchun Cave, Mount Weibao: Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (2006)National Forest Park
Overview
Mount Weibao is the foremost mountain of Daoism in Yunnan. Tradition holds that Xi Nuluo, the founding ancestor of the Nanzhao kingdom, once farmed here; the Xunshan Hall (Tuzhu Temple) on the mountain venerates Xi Nuluo as the Tuzhu ("Lord of the Land," 土主) of the Yi people, forming a distinctive fusion of Daoism and Yi religious belief. From the Ming and Qing onward, Quanzhen Longmen priests built temples here, numbering more than twenty at their height; surviving today are the Changchun Cave, the Yuhuang Pavilion, the Wenchang Temple, the Qingxia Temple, the Doumu Pavilion, the Peihe Tower and others, most of them Qing-dynasty structures scattered among ancient trees on the mountainside. The Changchun Cave, a Quanzhen temple built in the fifty-fourth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing (1715) and expanded under Qianlong, has its halls arranged according to the Eight Trigrams, with well-preserved wood carving and murals in the style of the Nanzhao tuzhuan (Illustrated Chronicle of Nanzhao); it was designated a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in 2006. Every year, from the first to the fifteenth day of the second lunar month, the Mount Weibao Song Fair is a major festival of the Yi people.
Highlights
- Changchun Cave
- Xunshan Hall (Tuzhu Temple)
- Wenchang Temple
- Yi Song Fair