Lesser Grotto 27: Mount Jinting小洞天二十七 金庭山洞（金庭崇妙天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Shengzhou, Shaoxing · Jinting Township, Shengzhou (site of Wang Xizhi's tomb)
- Coordinates
- 29.5, 120.95 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-seventh of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Golden Court's Lofty Wonder,” governed by the Immortal Zhao Xianbo. Identified with present-day Mount Jinting in Shengzhou, Zhejiang; Wang Xizhi of the Jin lived here in reclusion in his later years and was buried here, and Jinting Temple was built in the Tang, remaining a Daoist temple from the Song onward.