Lesser Grotto 25: Mount Mufu小洞天二十五 幕阜山洞（玄真太元天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Hunan / Hubei · Pingjiang, Yueyang / Tongcheng, Xianning · The main peak of Mount Mufu (border of Pingjiang, Tongcheng, and Xiushui)
- Coordinates
- 29.05, 113.8 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-fifth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the Mysterious and True Great Origin,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Chen. Identified with present-day Mount Mufu, on the border of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi; tradition holds that Ge Hong and Wu Meng practiced alchemy here, and the mountain preserves such relics as the Ge Xian Shrine and an Elixir Pool.