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Jade Emperor Peak, the summit of Mount Tai Path to the summit. Mount Tai is located in western Shandong, just north of the city of Tai'an and to the south of the provincial capital Jinan. It extends from 150–1,545 meters (492–5,069 ft) above sea level and covers an area of 426 km 2 (164 sq mi) at its base. The Jade Emperor Peak, which rises ...
Emperor Dongyue (or Dongyue Dadi Chinese: 東嶽大帝; lit. 'The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak') is a Daoist deity of the sacred mountain Mount Tai. [1] He is also believed to be the leader of a large bureaucratic celestial ministry overseeing the maintenance of the Book of Life (生死簿), a register of the due dates on which each and every human soul must be summoned before the Judges ...
Taishan Commandery was created in 122 BC, when the king of Jibei offered the land surrounding Mount Tai to the Han emperor. This region, together with a few counties from Jinan Commandery, formed the basis of Taishan Commandery. In 88 BC, Jibei was abolished, and its territories were merged into Taishan. [1]
The last emperor to carry out Feng and Shan sacrifices was Emperor Zhenzong of the Song dynasty. [13] Later, emperors in the Qing dynasty would perform similar rites at Mount Tai. There are only six verifiable accounts of performances in all of Chinese history. [14] The last recorded traditional Feng Shan was done in 1790 by the Qianlong ...
Bixia Yuanjun is the Taoist goddess associated with Mount Tai in Shandong Province, [1] regarded as a deity of childbirth, the dawn, and destiny. [8] She purportedly governs human life-span, judges the dead, [b] and heeds the pleas for children in need, especially male children (thus being capable of causing a male offspring to be born to a household).
Since ancient times, Mount Tai has been seen as a place where the spirits of the dead gather, so the god of Mount Tai was thought to be the supreme deity of the underworld and governs the lifespan and status of humans in this world. [6] In Daoism, it is often said that he is the grandson of the Jade Emperor. [6]
The five elements, cosmic deities, historical incarnations, chthonic and dragon gods, and planets, associated to the five sacred mountains. This Chinese religious cosmology shows the Yellow Emperor, god of the earth and the year, as the centre of the cosmos, and the four gods of the directions and the seasons as his emanations.
Mount Tai is the holiest of China's sacred mountains; according to mythology it formed from Pangu's head after his body's dissection. The official religion and ritual of the state of Qin (9th century BCE–221 BCE) was largely based on that of the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 BCE–256 BCE).