Mount Luofu, in Boluo county east of Guangzhou, is the great Daoist mountain of the south.
By our recollection it is counted the seventh of the Ten Great Grotto-Heavens and the mountain where the alchemist Ge Hong (traditionally 283 to 343) lived and died, with the Chongxu guan temple at its foot; we did not check this. Su Shi, exiled to Huizhou from 1094 to 1097, wrote of Luofu and its lychees (see the Huizhou record), which keeps the mountain in the memory of the literate. We know of no source that says what its houses held in 1200 or who led them; Daoist houses of the south were small beside the Buddhist ones.
Who holds it
- Title
- Head of the Daoist houses of Mount Luofu
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Not known. We found no source that names a master of the mountain in 1200.
Overlord
The prefect of Huizhou
What it holds
- The Daoist temples at the foot and on the slopes of the mountain, number and holdings not known
Allies and rivals
The Huizhou prefect; the Buddhist houses of the circuit.
How things stand that morning
In ordinary order. Nothing is recorded for the winter.
Wealth
Gifts, a few estates by inference; no source.
Places of note
- Mount Luofu: The mountain and its temples, position approximate
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Recollection only. No page fetched deals with the mountain, and the assignment names it without a source.
On the map: A disc over the mountain only. The mountain is about as long as the disc is wide.
Primary sources for Southern Song
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
- Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online
12 more in the sources library for South China.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.