Golden Summit

The Taihe Palace of Dayue is built on the summit of Tianzhu Peak, the highest peak of Wudang Mountain, which is surrounded by numerous peaks and pierces the clouds. Tianzhu Peak, with an altitude of 1,613 meters, is known as "a pillar supporting the sky" and is the highest scenic spot on Wudang Mountain. Whether it is believers, pilgrims, tourists or scholars, only by reaching the summit and entering the Taihe Palace can one truly be said to have arrived at Wudang Mountain.

The Taihe Palace also has another common name, which is the Golden Summit. In the tenth year of Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 600 to 100 years ago, the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ordered the construction by imperial decree. It took four years to complete this magnificent and imposing architectural complex on the steep and perilous peak. After its completion, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty bestowed upon it the title of "Great Mount Taihe" and named this imperial building on the summit "Great Mount Taihe Palace". The emperor's bestowal of the title enabled Wudang Mountain to leap to the top of the Five Great Mountains.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Taihe Palace was expanded again, increasing the number of halls and Taoist rooms to 520. After that expansion, the name of this place changed. With the Golden Top city wall as the boundary, the area outside the wall was called "Taihe Palace", and the area inside was called "Zijin City", also known as "Golden Hall". In fact, they were originally an integrated whole.

The overall architectural layout of Taihe Palace is based on the natural terrain and follows the terrain, making full use of the natural undulations of the mountain shape. In terms of construction, it takes advantage of its steep and perilous terrain to add a sense of grandeur, achieving an artistic effect of solemnity, magnificence and vastness, with a sense of stability in suspension and the majesty of standing alone in the clouds. The ancients called it "a thousand stories of pavilions rise in the air, and ten thousand layers of cloud mountains ring around the feet", and said that it was "a remnant of the Qin Dynasty, the first and the Han Dynasty..." "Rarely seen in any dynasty." World heritage experts, spatial experts and architectural experts who have visited Wudang Mountain are all amazed by the architectural ideas and the high degree of unity of humanistic and natural landscapes reflected in the Taihe Palace of the Great Mountain. They consider it a masterpiece of the ages, unprecedented and unparalleled.