Lesser Grotto 31: Mount Zhong (Nanjing)小洞天三十一 钟山洞（朱日太生天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Jiangsu · Nanjing · Purple-Gold Mountain (Mount Zhong)
- Coordinates
- 32.06, 118.85 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 thirty-first of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the Vermilion Sun's Great Growth,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Gong. Identified with present-day Mount Zhong (Purple-Gold Mountain) in Nanjing; Daoist temples proliferated here from the Six Dynasties onward, and Tao Hongjing of the Liang once built a hermitage here, the Zhuyang Lodge; very few Daoist remains survive today.