ts'u-o

Updated: August 29, 2026

'I must, it said, 'get reborn in visible form; until I can go through a new birth I shall remain empty and unsettled, His soul, carried on the wings of the wind, reached Fu-yü T'ai. There it saw a saintly lady named T'ai Yüan, forty years of age, still a virgin, and living alone on Mount Ts'u-o. Air and variegated clouds were the sole nourishment of her vital spirits.

E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner - Myths and Legends of China