In which province and city is Maoshan located?

Maoshan is located in Changzhou City and Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province.

Maoshan is located in Jintan District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province and Jurong City, Zhenjiang. It is divided into two areas: Jintan and Jurong. Jintan area includes Jintan Maoshan Scenic Area, Jintan Maoshan Tourist Resort, 11 administrative villages and 3 farms within the administrative area of ??Xuebun Town, with a total area of ??approximately 127.35 square kilometers. The Jurong area includes Jurong City's Maoshan Scenic Area, Maoshan Lake, tourist resorts and surrounding major scenic spots, and the main area of ??Maoshan Market Town, with a total area of ??approximately 126.5 square kilometers.

Maoshan is a famous Taoist mountain in China. It is the birthplace of the Shangqing sect of Taoism and is called the "Shangqing Zongtan" by Taoists. It has the reputation of "the first blessed place and the eighth cave heaven". It is also one of the six mountainous anti-Japanese base areas in China. There are many scenic spots on the mountain, including nine peaks, nineteen springs, twenty-six caves and twenty-eight pools.

Origin of the name

There are two Maoshan mountains in Jiangsu Province. One is south of the Yangtze River and is called Nan Maoshan; the other is in Xinghua City on the north bank of the Yangtze River and is called Beimaoshan.

In the Han Dynasty, in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, three brothers of the Mao family lived in seclusion here, so they built the Sanmao Taoist Temple and called them Sanmao Zhenren, so the mountain was called Sanmao Mountain. After that, Juqu Mountain was renamed Nanmaoshan, and Sanmaoshan in Jiangbei was renamed Beimaoshan, or Maoshan for short.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Ren Dachun, a representative of the Yangzhou School who was famous for his textual research, said in "The Stele of Passing Maoshan": North Maoshan was the place where Sanmao Zhenjun first practiced Taoism. This means that during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty, brothers Mao Ying, Mao Gu, and Mao Zhong first practiced Taoism and saved the people in Beimaoshan, so it was called Maoshan. Later, they were invited to go to Juqu Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, and this was how they were divided into southern and northern Maoshan.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Maoshan