The Qingliang shan xiaozhi 清涼山小志 [Short Account of Mount Qingliang] is a record about Mount Qingliang 清涼 (i.e. Wutai 五臺), written by Hongzhou 弘晝 (1712–1770), the ‘Heshuo He Prince’ 和碩和親王 in the Qing Dynasty. The text records brief accounts of 38 temples on Mount Wutai, together with 36 self-compiled seven-character verses, which were written in the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Qianlong (1746). For many years, this text was stored in private libraries, making it barely known to the public and rarely discussed by scholars of the previous generation. This paper contributes some brief textual research on its preface, text, poetry, and its influence.
