Description

Chinese works about famous mountains and other travel writings often combined details about the physical magnificence of mountains with information about certain religious and supernatural powers attributed to famous mountains. A number of these mountains thus became the sites where Buddhist and Daoist sects originated. The mountains were also the destinations of the literati, thanks to the spiritual and inspirational travels required to reach them. The work presented here was based on an earlier work issued in 1565 and entitled Gu jin you ming shan ji (Records of the past ...