{"id":89550,"date":"2026-10-02T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89550"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:16:00","slug":"how-chinas-wudang-mountains-draw-droves-of-visitors-in-search-of-spiritual-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89550","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s Wudang Mountains draw droves of visitors in search of spiritual cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/01\/37180cad-07fd-445d-a596-5cbf6367fd4d_154305a1.jpg?itok=mIXXPPhc&amp;v=1790842797\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A banknote clasped between her hands, Liu Haiyan prays to the protector of the Wudang Mountains. The range in central China\u2019s Hubei province has long been considered sacred in Taoism.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI asked him to bless our motherland with favourable weather and to make it even more prosperous,\u201d Liu says while sitting outside the Golden Hall, a Taoist temple at the summit of Tianzhu Peak.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis place watches over our country,\u201d she adds. \u201cWe\u2019re Chinese, and this is part of our faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tourists and pilgrims in a steady stream make their way through Wudang every day. Its scenic peaks, ancient palaces and religious sites drew 14 million visits in 2025, according to government figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/chinese-culture\/article\/3369441\/how-chinas-wudang-mountains-draw-droves-visitors-search-spiritual-cleansing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A banknote clasped between her hands, Liu Haiyan prays to the protector of the Wudang Mountains. The range in central China\u2019s Hubei province has long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[6292,30945,2672,16273,9912,1506,10771,5783,30944],"class_list":["post-89550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-chinas","tag-cleansing","tag-draw","tag-droves","tag-mountains","tag-search","tag-spiritual","tag-visitors","tag-wudang","wpcat-4840-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}