BOTANICON SINICUM. 223 
APPENDS. 
CELEBRATED MOUNTAINS OF CHINA. 
We frequently meet in Chinese botanical works with names of 
Chinese mountains, the situation of which is generally difficult to 
ascertain for European readers. I have therefore thought it service- 
able to subjoin a list of about 70 of the more conspicuous hills and 
mountains of China proper, adding some particulars about their 
position, ete. My information has principally been derived from the 
Kuang yit ki and from the Ta 7s‘ing I t'ung chi (see p. 69 and 87). 
I have also consulted the #4 #% Tao ts‘ang, or Great Repository 
of 'l'acist literature, in which a list of the mountains venerated by 
Taoists and of the haunted grottoes situated on them is given, 
This compilation dates from the 3rd cent. B. C. The Taoists 
distinguish first the 4- Fe Ya] FE she ta tung tven, the 10 Great 
haunted Grottoes, and besides these enumerate 36 other haunted 
Grottoes, = ++ F jl JK san shi liu tung tien, situated on various 
mountains of the Empire. 
From early times the Chinese have revered the Fi #§ ™ y9, 
or five sacred mountains: one in the middle, the others in the 
Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western parts of the ancient 
Empire. Annual sacrifices were made on them by the ancient 
Emperors, and on a rock of the Southern mountain the Emperor 
Yii is believed to have engraved an inscription (see Legge’s Shu 
king). | 
Chinese literature abounds in descriptions of these various — 
- mountains. Many of these accounts are of very early date. Several 
works have been published collecting the greater part of the records 
relating to famous mountains, or giving extracts of them. See 
Alphabet. List of Works, Nos. 19 and 1101a, ee 
