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Updated: May 9, 2025
On account of this feat he was considered advanced enough to be admitted to instruction in the doctrine. The Divine Archer This was Ch'ih-chiang Tzu-yü. He told the Emperor he was a skilful archer and could fly in the air on the wings of the wind. Yao, to test his skill, ordered him to shoot one of his arrows at a pine-tree on the top of a neighbouring mountain.
The sun and the moon are both included by the Chinese among the stars, the spirit of the former being called T'ai-yang Ti-chün, 'the Sun-king, or Jih-kung Ch'ih-chiang, 'Ch'ih-chiang of the Solar Palace, that of the latter T'ai-yin Huang-chün, 'the Moon-queen, or Yüeh-fu Ch'ang O, 'Ch'ang O of the Lunar Palace.
The Emperor was instructed in the secrets of the doctrine by T'ai-i Huang-jên, the spirit of this famous mountain, who, when he was about to take his departure, begged him to allow Ch'ih-chiang Tzu-yü to remain with him.
Ch'ih-chiang Tzu-yü lived in the reign of Hsien-yüan Huang-ti, who appointed him Director of Construction and Furnishing. When Hsien-yüan went on his visit to Ô-mei Shan, a mountain in Ssuch'uan, Ch'ih-chiang Tzu-yü obtained permission to accompany him. Their object was to be initiated into the doctrine of immortality.
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