Mount Tai

Overview

Mount Tai is the foremost of the Five Sacred Mountains of China, a site of imperial worship for over 3,000 years. Emperors performed the Feng and Shan sacrifices here to declare their mandate from heaven.

Mountain of Heaven

For over 3,000 years, Mount Tai was the site of the Feng and Shan ceremonies, the most important imperial rituals in Chinese history. Seventy-two emperors are said to have performed sacrifices here, declaring their divine right to rule.

The mountain is associated with both the birth of the world — Pangu's head became Mount Tai after he created the universe — and with the dawn, as the first place in China to see the sunrise.