Qīng chéng shān jì 青城山記
Records of Mount Qīngchéng
anonymous Sìchuān local-record / shānzhì gazetteer of Qīngchéngshān 青城山 — the Daoist sacred mountain of western Sìchuān, traditionally the place of Zhāng Dàolíng’s first revelation in 142 CE
A two-juàn local-record / shān zhì 山志 of Qīngchéngshān, organised under the standard shān zhì topical headings: (juàn 1) Yuán shǐ jì (origins), Sì zhì jì (boundaries), Zhū shān jì (peaks), Gōng guàn jì (palaces and belvederes), Gǔ jī jì (ancient traces); (juàn 2) Shì shí jì shàng (events upper — yǐn yì / recluses) and Shì shí jì xià (events lower — fāng jì / arts and techniques), with shí yí (left-overs) and yì shì (anecdotes) sections. The work is the canonical Qīng-era Qīngchéngshān gazetteer and is the principal local-history source for the Daoist heritage of the mountain.
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Abstract
A standard shān zhì gazetteer of Qīngchéngshān in 2 juàn, anonymous, undated. Composition is c. 1700–1809; the work is incorporated into DZJY as part of the broader Sìchuān Daoist institutional-history materials (with KR5i0100 Èr xiān ān bēi jì and KR5i0101 Qīng yáng gōng bēi jì). Qīngchéngshān is one of the most important Daoist mountains of late-imperial China, traditionally the place of Zhāng Dàolíng (Tiānshī)‘s 142-CE revelation; its gazetteer is a fundamental source for the cult-geography of southwestern Daoism.
For Qīngchéngshān in late-imperial Daoism see Olles, Ritual Words (2013); Esposito, Facets of Qing Daoism.
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