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'The western hill' is mount Khî, at the foot of which was the original settlement of the house of Kâu, in B. C. 1325.
(4) Mount Qi ('Twin Peaks') stood near the capital of the original home of the Zhou people in the Wei valley. Inscribed tortoise-shell oracles have been found in the area (see page 164).
Rutt, page 338.
The Luo River Document is said to have been found when a turtle with mysterious signs on its shell came out of the Luo River in the days of Yu, founder ofthe Xia dynasty. The visual element here may be the wrinkled tessellations on a tortoise's carapace.
Kwok Manho prefers to connect the story with tortoise-shells bearing divinatory lines, and quotes Ode 237, where there is a story of divination by tortoise-shells being used by the Zhou ancestors when they chose their first house-sites in the neighbourhood of Mount Qi.
The historicity of such divinations in the area was confirmed by archaeologists in 1977. This may well be part of the prehistory of Zhouyi, but divination was only part ofthe reason for the mysteriousness of the tortoise.
Rutt, page 164.
The first Zhou capital was near modern Xi'an, but before that time the clan had been centered in the region of Bin, to the northwest.6 To avoid attack by the non-Han Di tribe the clan leader Old Duke Danfu moved south to Mount Qi; but because of his virtues, not only his clan but other people came and joined him.7
Danfu's grandson Wen Wang had two sons, Wu Wang (Military King) and Zhou Gong. After Wen Wang was succeeded by Wu Wang, Zhou Gong became his major adviser in the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. He also helped educate Wu Wang's son Cheng Wang, loyally serving him instead of seeking the throne for himself. This loyal service is also related in the qin melody Feng
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岐山 Qishan (Qi Shan): Mount Qi, a mountain and 縣 district in 陝西 Shanxi province. Has illustration. No connection to 箕山 Jishan or to 谿山/溪山 Xi Shan.
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Source:
http://www.silkqin.com/02qnpu/10tgyy/tg04qsc.htm#top
http://sacredsites.com/asia/china/sacred_mountains.htmlOriginally it was called Xiyue - meaning 'Western mountain' - because it was the westernmost of the five Taoist peaks
Thanks Tuck:Qishan is not Huashan. Qishan is located in the west of Xian (approx. one hundred and some kilometers from Xian).
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Hi, Justin:...
Thanks also to Tuck for your contribution. However, I should point out that Mount Hua is around 106 Km west of Xi'an - at Lat 34.46, Lon 110.08), around the same distance and direction that you said. Do you have any more information about the whereabouts of the mountain in your photo? I would be interested to see it's exact location on the map. The mountains in our photo's are clearly different, but I would like to learn a little more before I make up my mind. Thanks again,Tuck.
Hua-Shan is the name of one of the five sacred mountains of China. It is located in Shaanxi Province, about 120 kilometers east of Xian and is privileged to possess, to ascend to its summit Taoist temples, one of the most rugged and dangerous paths of the planet.
Source: http://tejiendoelmundo.wordpress.co...-hua-shan-el-sendero-mas-peligroso-del-mundo/
More pictures, also movies in the site.
Complete set of pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globetrottingmatt/sets/72057594119056953/
Thanks also to Tuck for your contribution. However, I should point out that Mount Hua is around 106 Km west of Xi'an - at Lat 34.46, Lon 110.08), around the same distance and direction that you said. Do you have any more information about the whereabouts of the mountain in your photo? I would be interested to see it's exact location on the map. The mountains in our photo's are clearly different, but I would like to learn a little more before I make up my mind. Thanks again,Tuck.
I couldn't find a map to show where is Mt. Qi but only the following information.
Mt. Qi is located at Qishan county, and Qishan county is a county of Baoyi (see the location of Baoji Prefecture within Shaanxi at the right column). Comparing to the location of Xian, you can see Baoyi is in the west.
The photo of Mt. Qi is quoted from a ZhouYi blog; sorry for no English available.
Mt. Hua is in the east of Xian.
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