Kunlun Mountain, also known as Kunlun Xu, Kunlun Hill or Jade Mountain. In Chinese Taoist culture, Kunlun Mountain is known as the "ancestor of all mountains", which is a sacred mountain in ancient Chinese mythology, and Taoism is regarded as a fairy mountain where the gods live.

The Kunlun Mountains are mentioned more than once in the ancient Chinese geographical works "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Yu Gong" and "Notes on the Book of Water", and most of the descriptions are magical. For example, it is said to be the "lower capital of the Emperor of Heaven", with a radius of 800 miles and a height of 70,000 feet. He also said that there is the Yao Pond of the Queen Mother of the West, and there are fairy trees with pearls and beautiful jade growing everywhere. The title of "Queen Mother of the West" was first seen in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and it was called the Queen Mother of the West because of the Kunlun Hill where she lived. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West": "The Hill of Kunlun at the Cave of the Queen Mother of the West".

Since ancient times, Kunlun Mountain has attracted Buddhist Taoists to build temples and temples here, cultivate self-cultivation, and preach scriptures. Far away in the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were many temples here, and the incense was continuous. To the Jin Yuan, Wang Chongyang, the founder of the Quanzhen School of Taoism in China, and his seven disciples selected this place as the "Cave Heaven Blessed Land" of the founding school, leaving many fascinating Taoist relics. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Kunlun Mountain was the location of the Taoist mixed yuan sect dojo, and then gradually disappeared due to changes.

These are all the information you can find about Kunlun Mountain. But this Kunlun Mountain in the geographical sense is not the same concept as the top of Kunlun that Bai Ye and others are looking for!

On this day, when everyone was having dinner together, He Lao and Dong Ge chatted about work and mentioned Kunlun.

Bai Ye interjected: "I haven't always understood, since we are looking for the top of Kunlun, let's go directly to Kunlun Mountain, bring our equipment, and get ready to reach the top, isn't it?" Why are you running around? This devil city has gone, and Qingcheng Mountain has also gone, it has nothing to do with Kunlun! ”

In fact, Bai Ye's question is also everyone's question, so Liu Fugui will sort out the ins and outs for them by the way.

Yao Chi is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lived in Han mythology and legend, located on the Tianshan Mountain. The classic book "Liezi Zhou Mu Wang" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period once recorded, "Sui was in the Queen Mother of the West and on the Yao Pond." The Queen Mother of the West is the king's ballad, and the king is in harmony, and her words are mournful. It is the place where the sun is watched. Thousands of miles in one day. ”

Legend has it that more than 3,000 years ago, the son of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Mu Wang Jiman, once sat on eight horses that traveled 30,000 miles a day, set off from the capital, traveled thousands of miles, along the Tianshan Mountains to Yaochi to meet the Queen Mother of the West.

When King Zhou Mu, the son of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and his guards arrived, the Queen Mother of the West, dressed up, stood on the edge of the Yao Pond and greeted him with the most solemn courtesy. Yao Chi is like a mirror, the green grass is like a tree, and people "blow the sheng drum spring, and the center soars".

Happy days are always very short, King Zhou Mu has to return to the east, and the Queen Mother of the West held a grand farewell banquet. The solemn and toned Queen Mother of the West left the table and danced, singing in a tactful singing voice:

The white clouds are in the sky, and the mountains are out of their own

The road is far away, and the mountains and rivers are among them

The general is not dead, but can still come back

King Mu of Zhou solemnly raised his wine and sang impromptu and:

Return to the east and negotiate with the summer

All the people are equal, and I will see you

Compared with three years, it will be wild

After a three-year appointment, the Queen Mother of the West and King Zhou Mu reluctantly parted to each other. Before leaving, King Zhou Mu also planted a locust tree with his own hands and set up a stone tablet, which was engraved with five big characters of "Mountain of the West Queen Mother".

However, in the myths and legends of the Han people, the Virgin of Yaochi is also known as the Golden Mother, the Queen Mother of the West, in the hearts of the Chinese, the image of the Virgin Mary is graceful and luxurious, the goddess of kindness with transcendent status, the immortal dwells in the holy realm of Yaochi in the Tianshan Mountains, and the territory is planted with three thousand years of flowering, three thousand years of fruiting "Queen Mother Peach", the food is immortal, in the Chinese ancient book "The Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of Han", it is said that Our Lady is stunning and amazing, and once gave a peach to Emperor Wu of Han, and in the "Biography of Mu Tianzi", it is recorded that Our Lady is elegant and gentle in words and deeds, and once invited King Mu of Zhou to have a banquet in Yaochi, but in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" It is recorded that the Virgin of Yaochi is like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth, a roar that shakes the sky, long hair flying, bears the mandate of heaven, is in charge of human punishment, and is responsible for spreading plague viruses and disasters.

According to the record of "Hainei Western Classic", Kunlun Mountain is the residence of the Queen Mother of the West. Kunlun has the Queen Mother of the West is after the expansion of the western region of China, the Queen Mother of the West, as the deity of western China, according to its position in the west, should have its temple in Kunlun Mountain, the most mountainous area in western China. According to the western boundary of China determined by the above sentence, as well as the aforementioned attribution of the ancient tribe of the Western Queen Mother, the habitat of the ancient tribe of the Western Queen Mother can only be in the middle and upper reaches of the Jing, Wei and Luo rivers, and its ancestral temple should also be in this area.

"Ancient and Modern Books Collection" Pingliangfu Historical Monuments Examination: "Back to Zhongshan, in the west of the state three miles, the pulse comes from Kunlun, there is the Queen Mother Palace, the lower Linjing Water, a palace mountain. King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of Han tasted this. ”

The myth of the Queen Mother of the West has undergone two evolutions. The Han Dynasty was the first stage in the evolution of the myth and legend of the Queen Mother of the West. During this period, the Queen Mother of the West lived in the stone cave of the Western Jade Mountain (also known as Kunlun Mountain), which was a monster with a human face and a beast body, in addition, there were monsters with horns, leopard prints, and a voice like a barking dog - cunning, and three blue birds with red feathers and fish eating. [2]

The image of the Queen Mother of the West in "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", which was written a little later, has changed greatly, from a fierce god who is half human and half beast to a noble lady who was born in the emperor and amorous, and can also give poetry to each other with Mu Tianzi, showing a graceful and luxurious temperament in conversation. In "The Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty", the Queen Mother of the West has become a goddess who is about thirty years old and has a peerless appearance. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, people linked the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West with the historical facts of King Mu of Zhou's expedition to the west and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's tour of the West. The image of the Queen Mother of the West, which originated from myths and legends, gradually perfected and plumped.

Although these are all kinds of legends, with the wisdom of our ancients, who would believe in something that is not necessary for thousands of years?

Everything is traceable, and why we can't see these when we go up to Kunlun Mountain now, this is because the legendary Kunlun and the current Kunlun in the geographical sense are not the same concept!

Speaking of this, Bai Ye asked, "Not a concept?" Isn't it like Devil's Town? What tourists see is some natural geographical phenomena, and the actual Devil's City exists, but ordinary people have never had the opportunity to see it in their lives, and we entered the illusion before it, which is the real Devil's City! ”

Liu Fugui nodded and said approvingly: "Yes, that's the reason." Just like the Devil's City, it needs to be opened at a specific time or a special method to appear, and the top of Kunlun is the same, this is the estrangement! It's the gap between cultivators and ordinary people! ”