茅山

Máoshān

proper noun

Meanings

1 Mount Mao, a Daoist sacred mountain southeast of Jurong in Jiangsu Province, cradle of the Shangqing school of Daoism

Characters

thatch grass; (surname Mao)

Examples

HSK 7-9

茅山是道教上清派的发祥地。

Máoshān shì Dàojiào Shàngqīngpài de fāxiángdì.

Mount Mao is the birthplace of the Shangqing school of Daoism.

HSK 7-9

茅山道士在民间传说里十分有名。

Máoshān dàoshi zài mínjiān chuánshuō lǐ shífēn yǒumíng.

Maoshan Daoist priests are very famous in folk legends.

Tips

culture

茅山道士 (Maoshan Daoists) are pop-culture icons in Hong Kong horror films of the 1980s, where they specialize in jiangshi-fighting (僵尸, hopping vampires) using talismans, peach-wood swords, and chicken blood.

Stroke Order

茅 máo

山 shān