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Lesser Grotto 30: Mount Qingtian小洞天三十 青田山洞(青田大鹤天)

Type
Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
Location
China · Zhejiang · Qingtian, Lishui · Taihe Mountain (Mount Qingtian), north of Qingtian county town
Coordinates
28.14, 120.29 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 thirtieth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Qingtian's Great Crane,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Fu. Identified with present-day Taihe Mountain in Qingtian, Zhejiang; tradition holds it to be the site of Ye Fashan's cultivation of the Dao, and the mountain has Sword-Testing Rock and an Elixir Well, and is the home of Qingtian stone carving.

Related figures

Ye Fashan

Related scriptures

Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth, Record of Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Marchmounts, Rivers and Famous Mountains, Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds (Yunji qiqian)