Spirit Tower Heart Mountain (靈臺方寸山, Língtái fāngcùn shān?) is a mountain in the Western Continent and a minor location in Journey to the West.
Description[]
The mountain is tall and beautiful with thick forests at its base. In the mountain is a large cave named Three Stars Cave where an Immortal called the Patriarch Puti Zushi and his thirty to forty disciples live.[1]
Poem[]
The mountain is described in the following poem:[1]
千峰排戟，萬仞開屏。
日映嵐光輕鎖翠，雨收黛色冷含青。
瘦籐纏老樹，古渡界幽程。
奇花瑞草，修竹喬松。
修竹喬松，萬載常青欺福地;
奇花瑞草，四時不謝賽蓬瀛。
幽鳥啼聲近，源泉響溜清。
重重谷壑芝蘭繞，處處巉崖苔蘚生。
起伏巒頭龍脈好，必有高人隱姓名。
A thousand peaks stand like rows of spears,
Like ten thousand cubits of screen widespread.
The sun’s beams lightly enclose the azure mist;
In darkening rain, the mount’s color turns cool and green.
Dry creepers entwine old trees;
Ancient fords edge secluded paths.
Rare flowers and luxuriant grass.
Tall bamboos and lofty pines.
Tall bamboos and lofty pines
For ten thousand years grow green in this blessed land.
Rare flowers and luxuriant grass
In all seasons bloom as in the Isles of the Blest.
The calls of birds hidden are near.
The sounds of streams rushing are clear.
Deep inside deep canyons the orchids interweave.
On every ridge and crag sprout lichens and mosses.
Rising and falling, the ranges show a fine dragon’s pulse.
Here in reclusion must an eminent man reside.