Lesser Grotto 36: Mount Jinhua小洞天三十六 金华山洞（金华洞元天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Jinhua · Around Shuanglong Cave, Beishan, Jinhua
- Coordinates
- 29.2, 119.63 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-sixth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Jinhua's Cavernous Origin,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Dai. Identified with present-day Beishan (North Mountain) in Jinhua, Zhejiang, the site of the legend of Huang Chuping (Wong Tai Sin) of the Jin, who commanded stones to become sheep; the mountain has Shuanglong Cave (Double Dragon Cave), Binghu Cave (Ice Kettle Cave), Chaozhen Cave, and the Chisong Palace (Red Pine Palace, the ancestral temple of Wong Tai Sin, now rebuilt), the point of origin for the cult of Wong Tai Sin in Hong Kong.