Taoist literature, art, miscellany, stories, architecture, music, sculpture, relics, calligraphy and painting.
Fifteen anecdotes of the Taoist world: a master who neither ate nor drank, an old practitioner who grew young again, a Wudang Taoist who died seated after grain avoidance, a centenarian performing Taihe boxing, a high priest praying for clear skies, a dead cypress reviving—and a cautionary tale that cultivating the Tao begins with the heart.
How the gilded bronze Golden Hall on Tianzhu Peak was cast in Beijing and shipped to Wudang, and the awe-inspiring spectacle of fireballs rolling around it in thunderstorms—leaving it brighter than before—along with the folk legend that Zhenwu sends the thunder gods to cleanse it.
On the ridge of the Golden Hall atop the Wudang Mountains sits a bronze sea horse that, legend says, breathes out mist and hisses during summer rains—one of the Four Wonders of Wudang, recorded even in a Qianlong-era gazetteer.