Lesser Grotto 9: Mount Siming小洞天九 四明山洞（丹山赤水天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Yuyao, Ningbo / Yinzhou · Mount Siming (the Liangnong area of Yuyao)
- Coordinates
- 29.75, 121.05 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 ninth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Cinnabar Mountain and Crimson Water,” governed by the Perfected Diao Daolin. Today it is Mount Siming in Ningbo, Zhejiang, a place where Daoists have practised since the Jin. The Biographies of Divine Immortals records that Liu Gang, magistrate of Shangyu, and his wife Lady Fan (placed by one tradition in Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, by another in the Jin) once entered this mountain to contend in magical arts, and later ascended as immortals at Shangyu; the mountain holds such scenic sites as Cinnabar Mountain and Crimson Water, the Four-Window Cliff and the Baishui Palace.