Lesser Grotto 28: Mount Magu小洞天二十八 麻姑山洞（丹霞天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Jiangxi · Nancheng, Fuzhou · Mount Magu, west of Nancheng county town
- Coordinates
- 27.55, 116.6 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-eighth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, the “Heaven of Cinnabar Radiance,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Wang. Identified with present-day Mount Magu in Nancheng, Jiangxi, traditionally the site of the Immortal Maiden Magu's cultivation of the Dao; the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing's Magu Xiantan Ji (麻姑仙坛记, Record of the Immortal Altar of Magu) of the Tang is a celebrated masterwork, and the mountain has the Xiandu Temple, the Longmen Bridge, and other sites.