Mount Qingcheng
Mist-wrapped Taoist mountain of thirty-six peaks, dense forest and an eighteen-hundred-year-old ginkgo said to mark Taoism's birthplace.
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This guide to Mount Qingcheng near Chengdu follows the fog-wrapped Taoist mountain back to around the year 142, when a wandering teacher named Zhang Daoling climbed its thirty-six mist-covered peaks looking for quiet and built a thatched hut on what is now called Tianshi Cave. You'll hear about the massive ginkgo said to have been planted by his own hand, its roots older than most nations, still standing at the cave today. The guide also pushes past the tended stairs into the mountain's wild back half, where waterfalls and a winding river keep the same mist he first climbed into.
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