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The Eight Immortals crossing the sea, from Myths and Legends of China. [9] Clockwise in the boat starting from the stern: He Xian'gu, Han Xiang Zi, Lan Caihe, Li Tieguai, Lü Dongbin, Zhongli Quan, Cao Guojiu and outside the boat is Zhang Guo Lao. The Immortals are the subject of many artistic creations, such as paintings and sculptures.
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According to the Hsiu hsiang Pa Hsien tung yu chi, epithets of Lan Caihe include "the Red-footed Great Genius," Ch’ih-chiao Ta-hsien incarnate. [1] Lan was also called the "foot-stomping immortal," [13] which was a reference to the genre of music that Lan performed, "stomping songs," which are described further below.
Li Tieguai (Chinese: 李鐵拐; lit. 'Iron Crutch Li') is a figure in Chinese folklore and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. He is sometimes described as irascible and ill-tempered, but also benevolent to the poor, sick and the needy, whose suffering he alleviates with special medicine from his bottle gourd.
The gods and immortals（神仙） believed in by Taoism can be roughly divided into two categories, namely "gods" and "xian" (immortals). "Gods" refers to deities and there are many kinds, that is, heaven gods/celestials（天神), earth spirits（地祇), wuling（物灵, animism, the spirit of all things, netherworld gods（地府神灵 ...
Works about the Eight Immortals (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Eight Immortals" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The sequence of symbols — a lion, eagle, bull, fig tree and plough — was found etched into Assyrian temple ruins in the ancient city of Dūr-Šarrukīn, located in present day Khorsabad, Iraq ...
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.