SEVEN. The Pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan

Lagerwey, John

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“…Besides these temple complexes (UNESCO 2002: 262), Wudang Mountain is also famous for pilgrimage (DeBernardi 2009;Lagerwey 1987;Mei 2007), martial arts such as Taijiquan or Taiyi boxing (Yang 2008), and as a place of refuge for hermits (Yang 2008). In today's official advertisements, Wudang is highlighted as the "hermit-immortal's mountain" (xian shan) and represented as the "spiritual Wudang" (Wudang shan ling).…”

Section: Heritage Tourism Weps and Villagersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Along with the development of the WEP business, a new kind of symbolism surrounding the mountain emerged: villagers began to link certain WEPs to certain locations on the sacred mountain. Wudang is a sacred site that has been heavily laden with symbolic associations in history and one of the major features of Wudang has always been the symbolic integration of the mountain landscape by reference to stories about the deity Zhenwu (Lagerwey 1987). Plants in general have often served as landmarks of certain places along the pilgrimage trail (such as the association of the langmei plum with Langmei Temple), but now villagers have added WEPs to the symbolic system framing the mountain.…”

Section: Weps and The Continuity Of The Local Community On Wudangmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wild Edible Plants and Pilgrimage on Wudang Mountain

Wu¹

2015

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Wudang Mountain is a Daoist sacred mountain and a UNESCO heritage site in central China. This study investigates the wild edible plants (WEPs) sold in local yecaiguan (‘wild food resturants’) and examines the relationship between wild edible plants, local villagers, and pilgrimage on the mountain. Adding WEPs from forest and abandoned farmlands to restaurant menus has assisted local villagers in participating in heritage tourism, adapting to rapid social changes resulting from the heritage industry, and maintaining the local community. These wild food plants have also been involved in the construction of the memory, images, narratives, and myths surrounding the sacredscapes of the mountain, which are fundamental to pilgrims’ experience of the site. Through WEPs, villagers help tourists and pilgrims visit and experience this sacred mountain in multisensory and embodied ways, and help protect the mountain's heritage, including local knowledge, in a living system.

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Section: Heritage Tourism Weps and Villagersmentioning

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Section: Weps and The Continuity Of The Local Community On Wudangmentioning

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Wild Edible Plants and Pilgrimage on Wudang Mountain

Wu¹

2015

Journal of Ethnobiology

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On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age

DeBernardi

2016

Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity

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The Cambridge History of China

2016

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Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.

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SEVEN. The Pilgrimage to Wu-tang Shan

Cited by 46 publications

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Wild Edible Plants and Pilgrimage on Wudang Mountain

Wild Edible Plants and Pilgrimage on Wudang Mountain

On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age

The Cambridge History of China

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