Mount Longhu (, Gan: Lung-fu San) is located in

Yingtan Yingtan () is a prefecture-level city in the east of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Fujian to the southeast. Its location near the trisection of Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang has made it a strategically important city for ...

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, China. It is famous for being one of the birthplaces of

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, with many Taoist temples built upon the mountainside. It is particularly important to the

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as the Shangqing Temple and the Mansion of the Taoist Master are located here. It is known as one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism. Two notable temples on Mount Longhu are the temples of Immortal City () and Zheng Yi (), both founded by

Zhang Daoling Zhang Ling (; traditionally 34–156), courtesy name Fuhan (), was a Chinese religious leader who lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty credited with founding the Way of the Celestial Masters sect of Taoism, which is also known as the Way of the ...

(), the

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founder of the religion. There are more Taoist temples in nearby Shangqing (), one of which is mentioned in the beginning of the famous Chinese famous traditional novel '' Outlaws of the Marsh'' (). Mount Longhu also has cultural significance as a historical burial site of the

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, who placed their dead in

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on the mountains cliff faces.Hanging Coffins in Longhushan (Dragon-Tiger Mountain)
In August 2010

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inscribed Mount Longhu on the

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as part of the complex of six sites that make up the

China Danxia The Danxia landform () refers to various landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs". It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China. Danxia landform is ...

. Mount Longhu can be reached from the nearby city of

Gallery

File:Longhu Shan 02.jpg, A cliff-side Taoist temple File:Tianshifu Gate.JPG, The Tianshifu Gate of the Celestial Master Temple at Mount Longhu File:Longhushan 9263.jpg, View of the mountain's cliff File:Longhu Shan 01.jpg, Close-up of the cliff

References

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