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Taoism sacred sites in China
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Beiyue Hengshan Mountain
Datong, Shanxi, China
Mount Heng in Shanxi is the northern mountain of China's Five Great Mountains. It is a separate sacred landscape from Mount Heng in Hunan....
Mt. Heng Shan Nan
Hengyang, Hunan, China
Mount Heng in Hunan is the southern mountain of China's Five Great Mountains. It must be distinguished from the northern Mount Heng in Shanxi....
Mt. Hua Shan
Huayin City, Shaanxi, China
Mount Hua is the western mountain of China's Five Great Mountains. The State Party's UNESCO tentative-list submission identifies Huashan in Shaanxi as one of the four...
Mt. Huang Shan
Huangshan District, Anhui, China
Huangshan rises from southern Anhui Province in a formation of granite peaks, ancient pines, and cloud phenomena that has defined the Chinese aesthetic imagination for...
Mt. Lao Shan
Laoshan District, Shandong, China
Laoshan rises from the shore of the Yellow Sea near Qingdao, the highest coastal mountain along China's shoreline....
Mt. Luo Fu Shan
Huizhou, Guangdong, China
Luofu Shan in Guangdong Province is one of the Ten Great Cave Heavens of Taoist sacred geography — a classification that places it among the most spiritually significant...
Mt. Mao Shan, Jiangsu
Jintan District, Jiangsu, China
Maoshan in Jiangsu Province holds the distinction of being the First Blessed Land and Eighth Cave Heaven in Taoist sacred geography — the highest classifications in the...
Mt. Qi Yun Shan
Huangshan, Anhui, China
Qiyun Shan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism, rises as a formation of red Danxia sandstone in Anhui Province....
Mt. San Qing Shan
Sanqing, Jiangxi, China
Sanqingshan — the Mountain of the Three Pure Ones — is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jiangxi Province where granite pillars and pinnacles rise through cloud seas in...
Mt. Tai Shan
Taishan District, Shandong, China
Mount Tai is the eastern mountain of China's Five Great Mountains and the only member of the five currently inscribed on the World Heritage List....
Mt. Wu Tang Shan
Danjiangkou City, Hubei, China
Wudangshan is one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism, the dwelling place of Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior who governs the northern quarter of heaven....
Mt. Wu Yi Shan
Wuyishan, Fujian, China
Wuyishan holds a rare convergence: Taoist Grotto Heaven where immortals dwelt, birthplace of Neo-Confucianism where Zhu Xi rewrote East Asian philosophy, and the mountain...
Zhongnan-shan
Chang'an District, Shaanxi, China
The Zhongnan Mountains rise south of Xi'an, forming the central section of the Qinling range....
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This guide includes 13 sacred places within the Taoism tradition in China.
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