Lesser Grotto 29: Mount Xiandu小洞天二十九 仙都山洞（仙都祈仙天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Jinyun, Lishui · Xiandu, Jinyun County (Dinghu Peak)
- Coordinates
- 28.68, 120.13 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-ninth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the Immortal Capital's Quest for Transcendence,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Zhao. Identified with present-day Xiandu in Jinyun, Zhejiang; Dinghu Peak (Cauldron Lake Peak) is traditionally where the Yellow Emperor cast a cauldron and ascended to heaven, and the site was granted the name Xiandu by imperial decree during the Tianbao era of the Tang; the mountain has a Shrine to the Yellow Emperor (now rebuilt) and cliffside inscriptions at Niweng Cave.