Zhong Li-quan

Zhongli Quan (鐘離權 or 鐘离權 in pinyin: Zhōnglí Quán), or Chung-li Ch'üan in Wade-Giles, is one of the most ancient of the Eight Immortals (the oldest is Iron-crutch Li) and the leader of the group. (Some people consider Lü Dongbin to be an informal leader.) He is also known as Zhongli of Han (漢鐘離) because he was born in the Han Dynasty. He possesses a fan which has the magical ability of reviving the dead.
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[Chinese] One of the Ba Xian. He reputedly lived during the Han Dynasty. In one account he was a field marshal who withdrew to the mountains in his old age. Another claims that he was a vice-marshal who, after losing a battle against the Tibetans, fled into the mountains where five Taoist saints initiated him into the teachings of immortality. Several hundred years later he taught Lu Dong-bin, another on of the eight immortals. There a different stories of how he became an immortal. In one he met and old Taoist master in a forest, who at his request gave him prescriptions on how to attain immortality. Shortly after Zhong left this venerable master, he turned to cast a last glance at his hut but found that it had vanished. Another versions claims that during a famine Zhong produced silver coins by miraculous means and distributed them to the poor. One day, a wall of his hermitage collapsed while he was meditating and behind it he discovered a jade vessel which contained prescriptions for attain...
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