Lesser Grotto 22: Mount Julou小洞天二十二 岣漏山洞（玉阙宝圭天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Guangxi · Beiliu, Yulin · Julou Cave, Beiliu
- Coordinates
- 22.71, 110.37 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 twenty-second of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the Jade Watchtower and Precious Tablet,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Qian. Identified with present-day Julou Cave in Beiliu, Guangxi, a limestone karst cave; tradition holds that Ge Hong of the Jin sought appointment as magistrate of Gulou in order to practice alchemy here, and the cave preserves cliffside inscriptions from the Song dynasty onward.