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number, and having overcome them, was invested with a
sword of with which he traversed the
supernatural power,
and the earth of divers kinds
empire, slaying dragons, ridding
of evil for upwards of four hundred years. His emblem is a
sword This is shown as across his
{keen).'" generally slung
back, while in his right hand he holds a Taoist fly-brush.
No. 7. Chang Ko-laou. — " Said to have flourished towards
the close of the seventh and middle of the centuries.
eighth
He was a great necromancer, and used to be accompanied by
a white mule, which carried him immense distances, and when
not was folded and The
required up put away. Emperor Ming
Hwang summoned him to his court, but he refused to go. He
is with a bamboo tube a kind of musical
represented (yu-hu),
instrument used by Taoists, and two rods to beat it. The
latter are sometimes his emblem."
placed in the tube, forming
No. 8. Han Seang-tsze. — "Said to be a great-nephew
of the statesman and philosopher, Han Yu (who lived a.d.
768-824). He was a pupil of Leu Tung-pin, by whom he was
carried to the fabulous peach tree of the genii, but fell from
its branches. He is represented as a flute-player, and his
"
emblem is a flute (tieh) (see Nos. 233, 283, 331).
No. 9. Lan Tsae-ho. — "Of uncertain sex, but generally
considered a female, and represented carrying a flower-basket
"
which is the usual emblem Nos. 334, 335).
(kwa-lau), (see
No. 10. Tsaou Kwo-kiu. — "Said to be the son of Tsaou
Pin, a military commander, who died a.d. 999, and brother of
the Empress Tsaou How. He is therefore represented as
wearing a court head-dress. His emblem is a pair of cas-
tanets (pan), which he holds in one hand" (see No. 326).
The illustrations, with the exception of Nos. 2 and 3, are
taken from the No. 326, the other two from Nos.
cuspidore,
282 and 283.
Si Wang Mtj.
No. 11.— In connection with must also be noticed
longevity
Si Wang Mu (see also No. 326), as she is to be met with fre-
" The Western
quently on pieces of porcelain. Mayers, p. 178 :
Koyal Mother, or King Mu (Mother) of the West— a fabulous
being of the female sex, dwelling upon Mount Kw'en Lun, at
the head of the of and from time to
troops genii, holding