Eight Immortals from Sichuan
This article is about the Sichuanese immortals. For other uses, see Eight Immortals (disambiguation).
Eight Immortals from Sichuan (Chinese: 蜀中八仙; pinyin: Shǔ zhōng bāxiān) are eight Sichuanese who supposedly became xian ("immortals; transcendents; fairies"). The term is first used by Qiao Xiu (譙秀 qiáo xiù) in Record of Shu (《蜀紀》 shǔ zì) written in Jin Dynasty.
They are:
- Fan Changsheng (范長生 fàn cháng shēng),
- Dong Zhongshu (董仲舒 dǒng zhòng shū),
- Li Babai (李八百 lǐ bā baǐ),
- Li Er (李耳 lǐ ěr),
- Master Erzhu (爾朱先生 ěr zhū xiān shēn),
- Mister Rongcheng (容成公 róng chéng gōng),
- Zhang Daoling (張道陵 zhāng dào līng), and
- Zhuang Junping (莊君平 zhuāng jūn píng).
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