Where is Wudang Mountain? Which province is Wudang Mountain located? Which city does Wudang Mountain belong to?

Wudang Mountain is located in Danjiangkou City, Shiyan City, northwest Hubei Province.

Wudang Mountain, the holy land of Taoism in China, is also known as Taihe Mountain, Xieluo Mountain, Shenshang Mountain and Xianshi Mountain. It was known as "Taiyue", "Xuanyue" and "Dayue" in ancient times. Wudang Mountain is world-famous for its status as the "Crown of the Five Mountains" with "the four famous mountains all bowing to each other, and the five celestial mountains in the five directions being the highest in the imperial dynasty".

Wudang Mountain has seventy-two peaks, thirty-six rocks, twenty-four streams, eleven caves, three pools, nine springs, ten pools, nine wells, ten stones, nine platforms and other scenic spots. With Tianzhu Peak as the center, there are dangerous paths such as the Upper and Lower Eighteen Pans, the "Seventy-two Peaks toward the Big Ding" and the "Golden Palace Overlapping Shadow".

The overall layout of the ancient building complex in Wudang Mountain is centered on the Golden Temple of Tianzhu Peak, and radiates to the surroundings with the official road and the ancient Shinto as the axis. It is 80 kilometers from the stone archway beside Xiangshui River in the north, 25 kilometers from Yanchi River to Yousheng Temple in the south, 50 kilometers from Bailang Heilong Temple in the west, and 35 kilometers from Jieshan Temple in the east. Adopting a unified design layout in the royal architectural French style, the entire building complex is grand in scale, with prominent themes and orderly.

The ancient buildings in Wudang Mountain also embody the Taoist idea of ??"advocating nature" and maintain the original natural style of Wudang Mountain. The craftsmen designed the layout in accordance with the principles of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, to "measure the width and width", "set its rules" and "the mountain itself should not be modified at all". The materials used to build Wudang Mountain were not sourced locally, but purchased from Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places.

During construction, we made full use of the tall and majestic peaks and the steepness and depth of the rock streams, so that each building unit was built at the appropriate position of the peaks, mountains, rocks and streams, and the spacing between them was dense and dense. The scale is arranged just right, so that the building and the surrounding environment can be organically integrated, achieving the artistic effect of appearing and disappearing, bright and dark, and blending into one.

In the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Mountain has been supported by successive emperors as the "royal family temple", and Wudang Zhenwu God was worshiped as the "god who protects the country". Wudang Mountain's status was elevated to "the best fairy mountain in the world" ”, ranking above the Five Mountains, it has become the center of Taoist activities in the country and has been at its peak for more than 200 years.

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After the founding of New China, the Chang He government pursued the policy of "freedom of religious belief", and Wudang Taoism underwent great changes. The Taoists resumed the religious activities of the party. Especially after the reform and opening up, the Wudang Taoist Association organized and formulated the "Wudang Mountain Taoist Association Charter" and the management system of various temples. The State Council placed Zixiao Palace and Taihe Palace under the management of the Wudang Mountain Taoist Association and opened them to the outside world as key religious activity sites. open.

In 1997, the Hubei Provincial Government transferred Wulong Palace, Qingwei Palace and Qiongtai Zhongguan to the Wudang Mountain Taoist Association for management. Taoist activities are well organized. Wudang Taoists also have a certain political status. The person in charge of the Wudang Mountain Taoist Association has been elected as the vice chairman of the Danjiangkou City and Shiyan CPPCC, a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. ?

Since the establishment of the Wudang Mountain Taoist Association, it has invested tens of millions of yuan in large-scale maintenance of ancient buildings such as Taihe Palace, Zixiao Hall, Imperial Stele Pavilion, Yuji Pond, and Qiongtai Zhongguan. Give it a new look. Strengthen the excavation, organization and research of Taoist culture. In September 1992, the "International Academic Symposium on Chinese Wudang Taoist Culture" was successfully held.

At the same time, we continue to conduct Taoist cultural exchanges and Wudang martial arts exchanges with Taoist organizations in Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries, as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other regions, to expand the influence of Wudang Taoism at home and abroad. Pushing Wudang Taoist culture to a new stage of development.

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