Mount Penglai

Mount Penglai
Mount Penglai
	"Penglai" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	蓬萊仙島
Simplified Chinese	蓬莱仙岛
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Pénglái xiāndǎo
Wade–Giles	P'eng2-lai2 hsien1-tao3
IPA	[pʰə̌ŋ.lǎɪ ɕjɛ́n.tàʊ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Pùhng Lòih Sīn Dóu
Jyutping	Pung4 Loi4 Sin1 Dou2
Japanese name
Kanji	蓬莱
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Hōrai

Mount Penglai
Mount Penglai
	"The Immortal Island of Penglai", by Chinese artist Yuan Jiang (1708), held by Palace Museum
Genre	Chinese mythology
In-universe information
Type	Legendary island of immortals, Otherworld
Characters	The Eight Immortals

Penglai (Chinese: 蓬萊仙島; lit. 'Penglai Immortal^[1] Island') is a legendary land of Chinese mythology. It is known in Japanese mythology as Hōrai and Bồng Lai in Vietnam..^[2]

^ The character 仙 literally refers to a Daoist holy person/immortal or a mythological being, but is often used to describe places which exhibit the qualities of these beings.
^ McCullough, Helen. Classical Japanese Prose, p. 570. Stanford Univ. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8047-1960-8.

[1] The character 仙 literally refers to a Daoist holy person/immortal or a mythological being, but is often used to describe places which exhibit the qualities of these beings.

[McCullough-2] McCullough, Helen. Classical Japanese Prose, p. 570. Stanford Univ. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8047-1960-8.

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