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Since I have had the beast, it has already stuck its head out five times." With these words he took his tortoise on his back and went off. And the legend arose that this man was ten thousand years old. Fu Hi is "the life-breeding breath." Tortoises live to a great age. There is a legend which declares that Eight Immortals dwell in the heavens. The first is named Dschung Li Kuan.
In the heavens she was appointed to sweep up the fallen flowers at the Southern Gate of Heaven. Some of the Immortals, like Han Siang Dsi, are historic personages, others purely mythical. In the present day they play an important part in art and in the art-crafts. Their emblems also occur frequently: Dschung Li Kuan is represented with a fan.
Guest of the Rocks grew furious and cast his flying sword at him, cutting off his head. From that time onward he fell back again into the world of mundane pleasure and death. He sank down into the dust of the diurnal, and was no longer able to wing his way to the upper regions. Later he met Dschung Li Kuan, who delivered him, and then he was taken up in the ranks of the Immortals.
From his earliest youth he had been a lover of the hidden wisdom. Riches and honors were no more to him than dust. It was Dschung Li Kuan who aided him to become immortal. The fifth is called Lan Tsai Ho. Nothing is known of his true name, his time nor his family.
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