Mount Wangwu

{{Short description|Taoist mountain in Henan, China}}

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Mount Wangwu ({{zh|c=王屋山|p=Wángwū Shān}}) is a mountain situated about {{convert|45|km}} north west of Jiyuan City in China’s Henan province.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tianyabook.com/zongjiao/cndaojiao4/036.htm|language=Chinese|title=Mount Wangwu (王屋山)|accessdate=November 3, 2010}} Located in the Wangwushan-Yuntaishan National Park, Mount Wangwu is a famous Taoist site that includes the “Celestial Grotto of the Small Pristine Void” ({{lang|zh|小有清虚洞天}}), one of the Ten Grotto-heavens of Taoism.{{Cite web|url= http://wenhousecrafts.com/iching/sacredsites.htm|title= Secret Pathways to Dao|accessdate=November 3, 2010}}

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor used an altar on top of the mountain to offer sacrifices to Heaven or Tian ({{lang|zh|祭天}}) where he received the Book of Nine Elixirs ({{lang|zh|九丹經}}),(In Chinese) [http://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E8%97%9D%E6%96%87%E9%A1%9E%E8%81%9A/%E5%8D%B7011 The Yellow Emperor (黄帝轩辕氏)] one of the earliest Chinese alchemical texts.{{Cite book|editor-last=Selin|editor-first=Helaine|editor-link=Helaine Selin|title=Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures|year=2007|publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers|isbn=0-7923-4066-3}} p. 397