Five Finger Mountain (五行山, Wǔháng shān?), later known as Mountain of Two Frontiers, is a mountain between the Great Tang and Tatar.[1]
Description[]
The mountain is huge and tall, and rugged that it truly seemed to touch the blue sky. The eastern half belongs to the Great Tang domain, but the western half is the territory of the Tartars where there are tigers and wolves.
Synopsis[]
Buddha trapped Sun Wukong in this mountain for 500 years to learn patience and humility after causing havoc in the Heavens. The top is sealed with a magic seal that can only be opened by one person, Tang Sanzang.
After Wukong's entrapment, the name of the mountain was changed from Mountain of Five Phases to the Mountain of the Two Frontiers as a result of the Great Tang ruler’s western campaigns to secure his empire. It was during the time when Wang Mang usurped the throne of the Han emperor, that this mountain fell from Heaven with a divine monkey clamped beneath it. He feared neither heat nor cold, and he took neither food nor drink. He had been watched and guarded by the spirits of the Earth, who fed him iron balls when he was hungry and juices of bronze when he was thirsty. He has lasted from that time until now, surviving both cold and hunger. He must be the one who is making all this noise.[2]