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Qiyunshan (also called "Mount Qiyun", simplified Chinese: 齐云山; traditional Chinese: 齊雲山) is a mountain of China and sacred to the Taoists . The name means 'As High as the Clouds'. The area also has the name of "Landform of the Rosy Clouds" (丹霞地貌) due to the red rock of the area. It is located in Qingyang County in Anhui province 33 kilometers to the west of Huangshan City. The mountain is notable for its numerous insciptions and tablets, and monasteries and temples. The high point of the mountain is 585 meters.
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Mt. Qiyun was once one of the four famous Taoist mountains in China. As early as the Qianyuan era of the Tang dynasty (A. D. 758-760), the Taoist priest Gong Qiyun roamed to Mt. Qiyun and lived in seclusion at the Tianmen Cliff. During the Baoqing years of the Southern Song dynasty (A. D. 1225-1227), the Magician 1 Yu Daoyuan built at the Qiyun Cliff the Shrine of Perfect Warrior Who Protects Sages 2. In the Ming dynasty, Taoist activities on Mt. Qiyun daily became more and more flourishing. The Taoists of the mountain used to go to Mt. Wudang to visit masters and seek knowledge, so much so that Taoist temples and regulations of Mt. Qiyun mostly imitated those of Mt. Wudang. In the 15th Zhengde year (A. D. 1515), Wang Taiyuan, a Taoist living on Mt. Qiyun, built the Jade Emptiness Temple 3 on the Purple Clouds Cliff and the Peaceful Joy Temple 4 at the Peach Blossoms Valley, in imitation of Mt. Wudang. His disciple, carrying forward his master's will, built the Plums Temple and picked plums on Mt. Wudang to plant there. Since Mt. Wudang has the literary title "Taihe" while Mt. Qiyun has the literary title "Zhonghe", ancient people called the latter a "Small Mt. Wudang in the South of the River".
