Lesser Grotto 18: Mount Huagai小洞天十八 华盖山洞（容成大玉天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Lucheng, Wenzhou · Mount Huagai within the old city of Wenzhou (according to one account, Yongjia)
- Coordinates
- 28.02, 120.66 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 eighteenth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Rongcheng's Great Jade,” governed by the Immortal Ping Gong. Identified with present-day Mount Huagai in Wenzhou, Zhejiang (one of the nine hills of the old walled “Dipper City” of Wenzhou); the mountain has the Rongcheng Cave and the now-ruined Yuqing Temple, and was a site of Daoist activity in Wenzhou during the Tang and Song.