Lesser Grotto 16: Mount Wuyi小洞天十六 武夷山洞（真升化玄天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Fujian · Wuyishan, Nanping · Mount Wuyi (around Dawang Peak, Tianyou Peak, and Wuyi Palace)
- Coordinates
- 27.72, 117.98 Map ↗
- First built
- Same as above · The Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands system took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, with the list of names fixed in the Tang by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting; the present-day location is a scholarly inference.
Overview
The sixteenth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of True Ascension and Mystical Transformation,” governed by the Perfected Liu Shaogong. Identified with present-day Mount Wuyi in Fujian; tradition holds that Emperor Wu of Han sent an envoy to sacrifice to Lord Wuyi, and the Chongyou Temple (Wuyi Palace) was built here in the Tang and Song; Zhu Xi once administered the Chongyou Temple. The mountain is famous for its cliff-suspended boat coffins and the legend of the banquet at Manting (幔亭, Curtain Pavilion), and was inscribed in 1999 as a UNESCO mixed World Heritage Site of culture and nature.