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Wudang Mountain is a world cultural heritage and a famous Taoist mountain in China, and Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching has also spread to all corners of the world from here. According to legend, Lao Tzu, a thinker and founder of Taoism during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was a historian in the Zhou Dynasty who managed the book collection. Later, due to the turmoil in the Zhou room, Lao Tzu resigned, passed the letter Gu Pass, and ordered Yin Xi to write a book, so he wrote "Lao Tzu Five Thousand Words", that is, "Tao Te Ching", and since then, he rode the green ox to the west. After reading the Tao Te Ching in the dim candlelight, Yin Xi, the Guan Ling of that year, abandoned his official position and went into hiding, and went all the way to Wudang Mountain with the Tao Te Ching, becoming the first person in history to come to Wudang Mountain to cultivate.
Take the Wudang Mountain environmental protection station wagon to the Qiongtai Cableway, get off one kilometer away from the Wudang Mountain Eight Immortals Temple, and you can see that there are three holly trees on the high platform next to the road. On the hillside to the right of the holly tree, there is a stone road sign "Laojun Cave". The signs are small and mostly shaded by wild grass, but there is a path that seems to be a local's way up the mountain to fetch firewood. Meander along the path, there are several levels of bluestone road, that is, to the Laojun Cave, although the surrounding is damaged, the original scale can still be seen vaguely.
Laojun Cave, also known as "Taishang Rock" and "Taixuan Temple". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Shi Ren Daoqing and Wang Daoxing used artificial excavation of the grotto to the ninth year of Song Tiansheng (1031). In the Ming Dynasty, the Yuxu Palace mentioned Ren Ziyuan, who had edited the "Daozang" and "Dayue Taihe Mountain Chronicles" here. In the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch visited the Taishang and also left a word on this rock cliff.
According to the records of the Ming Dynasty mountain chronicles
Taixuanguan was destroyed by fire at the end of the Song Dynasty, and was rebuilt again in the Yuan Dynasty, with buildings such as Shanmen Nunnery. In the tenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, 23 mountain gates, corridors and road houses were built.
In the Qing Dynasty, all the buildings outside the cave were abandoned, and only the semicircular grotto cave remained.
The existing Laojun Cave Grottoes, carved according to the rock, are 4.35 meters high, 4.15 meters wide and 2.3 meters deep. Although the cave is not large, it is very rich. The rock wall outside the cave is also carved with many Taoist figures, the left cliff group of the cave has the portrait of "Prince Xianyan" and "Penglai Nine Immortals" on the cliff, all of them are yang carvings, and the vertical carving next to it is "Jingle King Prince Immortal Rock" and "Penglai True Realm" and so on. The right cliff of the cave is inlaid with a number of portrait tablets, all are bas-relief statues, soaring clouds and driving the fog, elegant and free, lifelike.
There are such a large area of grottoes and cliff carvings on Wudang Mountain, which is the unique charm of Laojun Cave, and also provides a rare physical object for the study of Wudang culture and history, attracting countless experts, scholars and scholars to come one after another. (Shiyan Radio and Television)