Mount Penglai

Penglai is a legendary land of Chinese mythology. It is known in Japanese mythology as Hōrai.

Location

According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the mountain is said to be on an island in the eastern end of Bohai Sea, along with four other islands where the immortals lived, called Fāngzhàng (方丈), Yíngzhōu (瀛州), Dàiyú (岱輿), and Yuánjiāo (員嬌).

Various theories have been offered over the years as to the "real" location of these places, including Japan, Jejudo south of the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan. Penglai, Shandong exists, but its claimed connection is as the site of departures for those leaving for the island rather than the island itself.

In Chinese mythology

In Chinese mythology, the mountain is often said to be the base for the Eight Immortals, or at least where they travel to have a banquet, as well as the magician Anqi Sheng. Supposedly, everything on the mountain seems white, while its palaces are made from gold and platinum, and jewelry grows on trees.

There is no pain and no winter; there are rice bowls and wine glasses that never become empty no matter how much people eat or drink from them; and there are magical fruits growing in Penglai that can heal any disease, grant eternal youth, and even raise the dead.

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Mount

Mount may refer to:

Displays and equipment

Weapon mount, equipment used to secure an armament

A fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe

Hanging scroll for mounting paintings

The display of an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore

Physically attaching a picture or a painting on to a support followed by framing with a picture frame.
Pinning up biological specimen on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissecting or display.

Physically attaching a picture or a painting on to a support followed by framing with a picture frame.

Pinning up biological specimen on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissecting or display.

Preservation methods used for display e.g. in a museum of fixed dead biological specimen which can be classified into wet or dry methods.

Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy

Preparing dead animals for display in taxidermy

Mounting a coverslip on a specimen on a microscopic slide.

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Mount (computing)

Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer's file system. A user can only access files on mounted media.

Overview

A mount point is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Many different types of storage exist, including magnetic, magneto-optical, optical, and semiconductor (solid-state) drives. As of 2013, magnetic media are still the most common and are available as hard disk drives and, less frequently, floppy disks. Before any of them can be used for storage, the means by which information is read and written must be organized and knowledge of this must be available to the operating system. The organization is called a filesystem. Each different filesystem provides the host operating system with metadata so that it knows how to read and write data. When the medium (or media, when the filesystem is a volume filesystem as in RAID arrays) is mounted, this metadata is read by the operating system so that it can use the storage.