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| From a Folk Shrine to a National Palace： The Rise of the Five Dragon Palace of Mount Wudang during the Song and Yuan Dynasty |
| Wang Chuang |
| (Research Center for Taoist and Taoism， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079) |
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Abstract The Five Dragon Palace of Mount Wudang was originally a folk shrine for people petitioning for rain. With the wide spread of Zhenwu belief in the Southern Song Dynasty，it became famous after the monks of Zixu Altar made some holy books to show the sacred history of Zhenwu and Mount Wudang， which paved the way for the rise of the palace. After the Yuan Dynasty， as the rulers’ belief in Zhenwu increased， the monks of the Five Dragon Palace changed the palace into a site for worshiping Zhenwu exclusively. From then on，the Five Dragon Palace began to be favored by the Yuan imperial family. The rise of the Five Dragon Palace has an important relationship with the spread of the Zhenwu belief after the Song Dynasty， and it is basically synchronized with the process of Mount Wudang being shaped as a sanctuary of the Zhenwu belief.
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Received: 22 November 2021
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2021, Vol. 60 
