mount t'ai

Example Sentences

• "Similarly, Mount T'ai, the chief of the sacred mountains of China, which has been an object of veneration and worship for over four thousand years. A road rises to the central peak, the highest of three, which "seems like a stairway to the skies, for there are near six thousand steps of hewn stone, each fifteen feet in length, leading upward.""
• "The worship of the sun, moon, and planets was, doubtless, brought from Chaldæa, where, according to Sir H. Rawlinson, the temple of the seven spheres, built about 1100 B.C., was dedicated to the seven planets, and coloured with the colours attributed to them by the Chinese. Mount T'ai, to the north of the town of T'aian in Shantung province, has the epithet of ‘honorable’ attached to it, being the most famous of the mountains of China, and burnt sacrifices are offered at the T'ai altar to Heaven by the Emperor of China in the second month of every year."
• "In the second month of the year, he made a tour of inspection eastwards, as far as Mount T'ai (in modern Shantung), where he presented a burnt offering to God, and sacrificed to the Mountains and Rivers."
• "Mount T’ai bestrides the Ch’i and Lu districts [of' Shantung], while its most remarkable scenery is at Lung-yen."
• "The Feng and Shan were probably the state rituals in premodern China imbued with the most momentous religious and political symbolism. Traditionally held at Mount T’ai 泰山 and a nearby hill in modern Shantung 山東, the rituals represented a confirmation of the ruler’s receipt of the Heavenly Mandate."