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Panel 4 Panel 5 Panel 6

The fourth panel depicts two sages by a The fifth panel depicts the God of Longevity, The sixth panel depicts Magu, the Goddess
stream with an attendant carrying a red- Shoulao, with a prominent cranium and a long of Longevity, on a log raft with He Xiangu
headed crane, one gentleman points at staff, surrounding him are children, one riding steering it. Magu (literally meaning ‘Hemp
the sky to the crane in the next panel; in a deer and holding a peach, further symbols Maiden’) is portrayed wearing a cape of
the foreground an elderly sage with a staff of longevity and prosperity, two boys pointing hemp leaves, beside a basket of flowers and
is followed by a child carrying a basket of to a flying crane in the sky. a jar of fungus longevity wine. He Xiangu is
flowers, possibly representing Lan Caihe. distinguishable from the lotus she is wearing.
Magu points up towards the shore where a
Buddhist lion treads behind another female
Immortal.

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