Mount T'ai

Mount Tai English Proper noun mount T'ai en Mount Tai. en 1887 Hampden C. DuBose Mountains, Islands, and Festivals The Dragon, Image, and Demon; or, The Three Religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism https://archive.org/details/dragonimagedemon1887dubo New York A. C. Armstrong & Son 274 Similarly, Mount T'ai, the chief of the sacred mountains of China, which has been an object of veneration and worship for over four thousand years. A road rises to the central peak, the highest of three, which "seems like a stairway to the skies, for there are near six thousand steps of hewn stone, each fifteen feet in length, leading upward." en 1894 Herbert J. Allen Ssŭma Ch'ien's Historical Records. Introductory Chapter The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F9BC943F29D356CFCE380F91F873750/S0035869X00143916a.pdf/art_xssuma_chiens_historical_records_introductory_chapter.pdf London Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 272 The worship of the sun, moon, and planets was, doubtless, brought from Chaldæa, where, according to Sir H. Rawlinson, the temple of the seven spheres, built about 1100 B.C., was dedicated to the seven planets, and coloured with the colours attributed to them by the Chinese. Mount T'ai, to the north of the town of T'aian in Shantung province, has the epithet of ‘honorable’ attached to it, being the most famous of the mountains of China, and burnt sacrifices are offered at the T'ai altar to Heaven by the Emperor of China in the second month of every year. https://web.archive.org/web/20261022234513/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/art-xssuma-chiens-historical-records-introductory-chapter/2F9BC943F29D356CFCE380F91F873750 22 October 2026 en 1906 Herbert A. Giles The Ancient Faith Religions of Ancient China https://archive.org/details/religionsancien00gilegoog London Constable and Company Ltd. In the second month of the year, he made a tour of inspection eastwards, as far as Mount T'ai (in modern Shantung), where he presented a burnt offering to God, and sacrificed to the Mountains and Rivers. en 1985 Early Chinese Texts on Painting https://archive.org/details/earlychinesetext0000unse/ 0-674-22025-0 84-12859 964089071 182 https://archive.org/details/earlychinesetext0000unse/page/182/ Mount T’ai bestrides the Ch’i and Lu districts [of' Shantung], while its most remarkable scenery is at Lung-yen. en 1994 Chen Jo-shui Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T’ang China Frederick P. Brandauer; Chün-chieh Huang Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China https://archive.org/details/imperialrulershi0000unse/ Seattle; London w:University of Washington Press 0-295-97374-9 94-16627 30476604 83 https://archive.org/details/imperialrulershi0000unse/page/83/ The Feng and Shan were probably the state rituals in premodern China imbued with the most momentous religious and political symbolism. Traditionally held at Mount T’ai zh 泰山 and a nearby hill in modern Shantung zh 山東, the rituals represented a confirmation of the ruler’s receipt of the Heavenly Mandate.