What are the stories of Mount Tai?

There are countless famous mountains in the world. Why do emperors and sentient beings of all ages respect Mount Tai, the East Mountain? This must start with Pangu, who created the world. Legend has it that a long time ago, when the world was just formed and heaven and earth were just separated, there was a man named Pangu who grew up between heaven and earth. The sky rises ten feet a day, the earth grows ten feet a day and Pangu grows one foot a day. So day after day, year after year, he lived tenaciously. After 18,000 years, the sky is extremely high, the ground is extremely thick, and Pangu grows extremely high. His breath evaporated into wind, his breathing turned into thunder, and his eyes blinked, flashing blue light. It was lightning. When he is happy, the sky becomes clear, and when he is angry, the sky becomes rainy. Later, Pangu slowly grew old and finally passed away. In an instant, the giant fell to the ground, his head became Dongyue, his abdomen became Zhongyue, his left arm became Nanyue, his right arm became Beiyue, his feet became Xiyue, his eyes became the sun and the moon, his hair became vegetation, and his oil became rivers. Because Pangu created the world, later generations respected him as the ancestor of mankind, and his head became Mount Tai, so Mount Tai was called the supreme "the first mountain in the world" and became the head of the five mountains.

The legend of Mount Tai is one of the folklore of Han nationality in Shandong. According to legend, the history of the theocracy of Taishan God in charge of life and death can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. According to ancient archaeological records, Mount Tai has had a legend of immortals since the weekend. After the appearance of Yin-Yang Studies and Five Elements Studies in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Mount Tai became a place where Yin and Yang alternated and everything developed.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the appearance of Taoism, there was a saying that "Mount Tai ruled ghosts" in society. Mount Tai was in charge of life and death on earth, and the ancient emperor descended the Zen altar and changed it to the Temple of Hades. Yan Shigu, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, commented on the sentence of Hanshu Zen: "The word' Gao' should be the height of the competition, and two dead people are among them; Gaolishan is at the foot of Mount Tai and is a ghost domain. " In Jin Dynasty, both the Search for the Gods by Gan Bao and the Natural History by Zhang Hua said that Mount Tai was in charge of life and death, and there were many stories in the book that his dream of being an official of Mount Tai in the underworld came true. Jin's Ode to Mount Tai eulogizes: "The height of Mount Tai is made by heaven. Far from perfection, the clouds are overcast. There is also a pavilion in Fu Liang, and there is also a pavilion in Artemisia argyi. A thousand ghosts live in seclusion, and larks gather in the sacred room. " Read to the edge of Mount Tai, and stir up the sound of Chu generously. "

In the Romance of the Gods edited by Xu in Ming Dynasty, Jiang Ziya appointed Huang, a general of Zhou Dynasty, as the Emperor of Dongyue: He was in charge of the eighteen levels of hell, and all life and death should be turned into gods and ghosts, and they should be checked from Dongyue before implementation.