Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Zixiao Palace (Purple Cloud Palace) on Mount Wudang
Commissioned by the Yongle Emperor, Zixiao Palace impresses with its double-eaved hip-and-gable main hall and is a traditional centre for Wudang internal martial arts.
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- Visiting Mount Wudang and Lodging at Zixiao PalaceClassical PoetryQiu Chuji (Changchun Zhenren)
Zixiao Palace rests upon Mount Taihe; across thousand valleys and ten thousand crags auspicious mists thicken. In the silence of night when heaven is lofty and constellations draw near, a single chiming of the stone bell reverberates throughout the void.