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Mount Longhu

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Mount Longhu is positioned in Jiangxi, China. It is well-known for being one of the birthplaces of Taoism, with many Taoist temples constructed upon the mountainside. It is in particular important to the Zhengyi Dao because it the Shangqing Temple and the Mansion of the Taoist Master are placed here. It is referred to as one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism. Two of them are the temples of Immortal City and Zheng Yi, all based through Zhang Daoling, the Han Dynasty founder of the faith. There are greater Taoist temples in nearby Shangqing Town.

One of the temples in Shangqing is cited in the beginning of the well-known Chinese novel "Outlaws of the Marsh". Mount Longhu also has cultural importance has a historic burial website of the Guyue humans, who located their dead in putting coffins at the mountains cliff faces. In August 2010 UNESCO inscribed Mount Longhu on the World Heritage List as part of the complex of six websites that make up the China Danxia. Mount Longhu can be reached from the nearby city of Yingtan.

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