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    The Eight Immortals (Chinese: 八仙) are a group of legendary xian (immortals) in Chinese mythology. Each immortal's power can be transferred to a vessel...
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    The Eight Immortals Restaurant murders, also known as the Eight Immortals murders or the Chinese Pork Bun murders, were an incident in which a family...
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  • these men are often called The Eight Immortals as an allusion to the Taoist deities commonly known as the Eight Immortals. Deng Xiaoping, who emerged as...
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  • The Eight Immortals are ancient revered figures of Daoism. Eight Immortals may also refer to: Eight Immortals of Huainan, also known as the Eight Gentlemen...
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    011917 The Pa-hsien Mountain (Chinese: 八仙山; pinyin: Bāxiānshān), or Eight Immortals Mountain, is a mountain in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is...
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  • Legend of the Eight Immortals is a Singaporean television series based on stories about the Eight Immortals in Chinese mythology and adapted from the...
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    The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup or Eight Immortals Indulged in Wine (Chinese: 飲中八仙; pinyin: yǐnzhōng bāxiān) were a group of Tang dynasty scholars...
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    In the tale of The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, the Queen Mother of the West extends an invitation to the Eight Immortals to attend the Conference...
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    imitates the characters of the "Drunken Eight Immortals" (八仙; ba xian), which are a group of legendary immortals in Chinese mythology. First described in...
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    description: Legends of so-called immortals were widely accepted by the ancient Chinese. Although the concept of immortals was not exactly the same through...
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    Lan Caihe (category Eight Immortals)
    the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. Presence in the Eight makes this figure one of the more familiar out of hundreds of other Taoist immortals. Lan...
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  • Eight Immortals from Sichuan (Chinese: 蜀中八仙; pinyin: Shǔ zhōng bāxiān) are eight Sichuanese who supposedly became xian ("immortals; transcendents; fairies")...
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  • Kieseritzky Eight Immortals, a group of legendary xian ("immortals") in Chinese mythology Immortels, the members of the Académie Française Immortal Guards...
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    the Bohai sea where immortals reside; these mountains are Penglai, Fāngzhàng (方丈), and Yíngzhōu (瀛洲/瀛州). Other islands where immortals reside are called...
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    Han Xiangzi (category Eight Immortals)
    of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. He studied Taoist magical arts under the tutelage of Lü Dongbin, another of the Eight Immortals. Han Xiangzi...
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  • The Eight Gentlemen of Huainan (Chinese: 淮南八公; pinyin: Huáinán bāgōng) were the eight scholars under the patronage of Liu An (劉安 Liú Ān), the prince of...
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    He Xiangu (redirect from Immortal Woman He)
    mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. She is often seen as the only female among the Eight Immortals (though the sex of Lan Caihe...
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  • Immortals, an octet of warriors in Chinese mythology. Eight Immortals at Hong Kong Cinemagic Eight Immortals at IMDb Eight Immortals at AllMovie v t e v t e...
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  • married and they repopulated the world with human beings once more. "The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea" comics by Chan Kok Sing told a story about Jade Emperor...
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    Zhang Guolao (category Eight Immortals)
    Chinese mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. Among the Eight Immortals, Zhang Guolao, Zhongli Quan and Lü Yan were...
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    early use of the Eight Trigrams in a religious Taoist... Ho, Peter Kwok Man; Kwok, Man-Ho; O'Brien, Joanne (1990). The Eight Immortals of Taoism: Legends...
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    Li Tieguai (category Eight Immortals)
    apprentice, hence he should have lived in the sixth century BC. The Eight Immortals became immortals by means of practising Taoist magical arts. According to the...
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  • former also serving as the film's producer. The film is based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took place on 4 August 1985 in the Hei Sha...
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    Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities...
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    Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Immortals, whose wine was considered to have healing properties He Xiangu, one of the Eight Immortals, whose lotus flower improves...
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    Lü Dongbin was one of the Eight Immortals. Lü Dongbin and his teacher, Chung-li Ch'üan, were two of the "Eight Immortals”, pa-hsien. While a fugitive...
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    androgynous beauty. This word originated from the Tang dynasty poem Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup by Du Fu. It has always shown the strongest manifestation...
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    features illustrations of all eight movements. The same work assigns the creation of this exercise to two of the Eight Immortals, namely Zhongli Quan and Lü...
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    five mountainous islands inhabited by the Eight Immortals, who lived in perfect harmony with nature. Each Immortal flew from his mountain home on the back...
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  • in a place not on Earth, such as Heracles on Mount Olympus or the Eight Immortals of Taoism in Mount Penglai. It also does not include people who, according...
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