Gunung Suci Taoisme Qu Yun adalah salah satu gunung suci taoisme di Tiongkok, selain Wu Dang Shan, dan Long Hu Shan. Terletak di Anhui, 33 km kota Huang Shan, Tiongkok Selatan.
Seperti namanya, gunung ini dikenal sebagai gunung para dewa. Karena setiap pagi, akan turun kabut digunung dan diliputi awan yang turun seakan2 menutupi gunung. Diatas puncak gunung terletak beberapa vihara dan kelenteng. Karena terletak dihulu dari sungai Shuai Shui, maka awan yg menutupi gunung ditambah sungai yang membelah. Sehingga jika dilihat dari atas telihat seperti simbol yin yang. Dikanan gunung berwarna hitam, dan dikiri bbrp vihara / kelenteng berdinding putih, lalu dibelah oleh Shuai Shui.
Karena letaknya diatas puncak gunung diselimuti awan, maka tak heran banyak kaum terpelajar, kaum taoisme dan juga raja sering tinggal dan berkunjung disana. Antara lain : penyair Li Bai, Zhang San Feng (pendiri Wu Dang Shan) juga menghabiskan masa tua sebelum menghilang. Sehingga disana pun ada prasasti Zhang San Feng. Konon, Zhang San Feng berumur hingga 200 tahun. Dan terakhir Paduka Zen Wu.
Sampai saat ini syair Li Bai masih tertulis di dinding dan di berbagai teks / canon yg tersimpan di gunung suci ini.
A Taoist temple on the mountain
Highest point
Elevation 585 m (1,919 ft)
Geography
Location Xiuning County, Anhui Province, China
Mount Qiyun, (simplified Chinese: 齐云山; traditional Chinese: 齊雲山; pinyin: Qíyūn Shān; literally: "Cloud-High Mountain") is a mountain and national park located in Xiuning County in Anhui Province, China. It lies some 33 kilometres (21 mi) to the west of Huangshan City and is known as one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism. Noted for its numerous inscriptions and tablets, as well as monasteries and temples, the highest point of the mountain rises to 585 metres (1,919 ft).
Culture
Through Chinese history, Chinese poets and writers including Li Bai, Tang Yin and Yu Dafu have visited Mount Qiyun either to compose poetry or to leave an inscription.
Mt. Qiyun, home of Taoists
2013-06-20 16:21:24
(China Today)
My friends and I headed to Anhui province last spring to climb the Yellow Mountain. As a tie-in trip we also headed to the neighboring Mount Qiyun, a Taoist holy site.
Mount Qiyun is most often mentioned as a footnote to the Yellow Mountain, which is one of China’s “big fi ve” mountains. But it turns out that Mt. Qiyun is no less impressive than its famous brother in terms of both natural scenery and cultural signifi cance.
The two mountains are close to each other – a distance of mere 50 kilometers. Both fall within the territory of Huangshan City. Qiyun in Chinese means “as high as the clouds,” though the mountain doesn’t really live up to its name – it reaches a modest 585 meters above sea level.
The appellation is not entirely baseless, however. For much of the year the mountain’s 36 craggy peaks are shrouded in a sea of clouds and a dense veil of mist in the morning. The clouds, it seems, descend from the heavens to fulfi ll the promise of the mountain’s name.
Perhaps the almost constant cloud cover and the sense of seclusion it creates explain why Mount Qiyun has remained an epicenter of Taoism in South China for over a millennium. China’s history over the past several hundred years has been tumultuous, but this hasn’t stopped Taoist followers from making pilgrimages to the mountaintop shrine of Lord Zhenwu, the Truly Martial Grand Emperor. Dynasties fell and wars raged, but artists, scholars and poets continued the Taoist tradition of immersing themselves in the serene solace of the woods above Qiyun’s steep bluffs. Some have left behind works of art to mark their stay in the form of inscribed tablets. The carvings of sages long past remain on the rock face today, standing stately guard over tourists who clamber up Qiyun.
Land of Immortals
Mt. Qiyun sits on the bank of the Shuaishui River which, viewed from the mountaintop, meanders along picturesquely by grain fields and white-walled cottages. The river and its polychrome surrounds are said to closely resemble a black and white Yin and Yang sign – or the “diagram of the supreme and ultimate” to use its real name – when viewed from directly above. Proximity to such powerful Taoist imagery is the reason why Taoist sage Zhang Sanfeng is said to have spent his last years on the mountain before gaining immortality. Thanks to the power of the Tao, Zhang had a long life. According to legend, he lived 200 years from 1247 to 1458.
There is a tomb dedicated to Zhang Sanfeng at Qiyun – but it’s empty. According to Chinese myth, on ascending to heaven one’s corporal remains vanish without a trace in the temporal world.
My friends and I arrived at Qiyun in the afternoon. To save time we decided to give up the idea of scaling the mountain on foot, which would take about three hours if we took the shortest route, and opted for the cableway.
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