Mount Tai (simplified: 泰山, traditional: 泰山, pinyin: Tàishān, jyutping: taai3 saan1) is the Eastern Great Mountain of China’s Five Sacred Mountains, located in Shandong Province. It is the base of the Taishan School in Laughing in the Wind.
Overview
Mount Tai is the easternmost of the Five Sacred Mountains and traditionally the most revered. The Taishan School, led by Tianmen, was known for the Eighteen Bends of Taishan sword technique. The school faced internal conflict when Yujizi and others plotted against Tianmen at the Five Mountains Sword Meet.
In The Legend of the Condor Heroes
At Returning Clouds Manor, the old man passing himself off as Qiu Qianren claimed to have heard of Huang Yaoshi’s death from Hong Qigong a month earlier, on the summit of Mount Tai, where he said he had fought Hong Qigong and beaten him. Huang Rong exposed the lie: a month earlier Hong Qigong had been with her and Guo Jing in Jiangnan (ch. 14). The speaker was in fact Qiu Qianren’s twin brother, Qiu Qianzhang.