n-yi day of the second lunar month (17 March 696), several months after Wu Zhao performed the feng and shan rites at Mount Song.[52]（[52] ZZTJ 205.6504 Also see JTS 6.124 and TPYL 110.）Mount Song became a Daoist paradise, the Central Heaven. The Jade Capital-associated in Wu Zhao's ceremony with the spirit of Qi's mother-was, in Daoist lore, at the very center of the highest Heaven where the supreme deity dwelled, presiding over a pantheon of Daoist divinities.[53]（[53] On Jade Capital (Yujing), see Paul Kroll, "Li Po's Transcendent Diction," Journal of the American Oriental Society 106.1 (1986), 107. Kroll remarks that the Jade Capital might better be termed "the Jade Capitoline Mountain, "the exact center of the highest heaven" according to a sixth century Daoist manual, The Secret Cruces without Superior (wushang biyao). Also see Edward Schafer, "The Origin of an Era," Journal of the American Oriental Society 85.4 (1965), 545）Like "Jade Capital" in the title of Qi's mother, so Lady Goldtower, the title bestowed upon her younger sister's spirit, contained great Daoist resonance. In Shangqing Daoism, Lord Goldtower (Jinque dijun) was an intermediary between Heaven and humanity, a Latter-day Sage (housheng), a messianic incarnation of Laozi also known as Li Hong.[54]（[54] Livia Kohn, Daoism Handbook (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 213）A passage in the Taiping guangji records various titles of Laozi including "Imperial Ruler of Goldtower"金阙帝君.[55]（[55] Taiping guangji 1.1. The Tang Huiyao (50.865) records a title that Xuanzong bestowed upon Laozi in 754, Great Sage of the Exalted Great Dao, Emperor of the Primal Origin and Golden Tower. A similar title is recorded in XTS 5.149 and in ZZTJ 217.）
Indeed, Jade Capital and Goldtower, terms connoting both the sisters of Tushan and Daoist paradise, often appear linked in Wu Zhao's propaganda. Shangyang Palace, built in Luoyang in the Imperial Park during the Shangyuan era (20 September 674 to 18 December 676) con
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