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Qiongtai Terrace for a Healing Sip 瓊臺酌醴

Qiongtai is a terrace cropping out at the centre of in the Wu area in Declarations of the Perfected 瓊臺當大壑之心，上下皆絕壁，惟峯腰懸磴可度。
a ravine. Isolated by precipices both above and (Zhengao), this temple in the Yue area ranks 三面翠巘，周遭衛如郛郭。南臨深潭，正面所對
below, it is accessible only by stone steps girdling among the Seventy-two Blissful Lands in the 山，為雙闕。峯嶺環繞，中有道院，曰「桐柏宮」
the mountain. Lush peaks shelter it on three Daoist faith and was built by Sima Chengzhen 。真誥云：「吳有句曲之金陵，越有桐柏之金庭」
sides like the walls of a fortified city while a deep during the Jingyun reign of the Tang dynasty. 。因以桐柏為七十二福地之一。唐景雲時，司馬承
pond marks its border on the south. Across is the Overlooked by the temple is a sweet healing 禎築宮於此。下有醴泉，甘美可蠲疾。右有清風
mountain Shuangque, where the Daoist temple spring. On the right is the Qingfeng Shrine that
Tongbai Palace nestle in the peaks. Mentioned in honours the morally impeccable brothers Boyi 祠，祀伯夷叔齊石像。
the same breath with the holy mountain Gouqu and Shuqi with stone statues.