[Chinese] One of the Ba Xian. He reputedly lived during the Han Dynasty. In one account he was a field marshal who withdrew to the mountains in his old age. Another claims that he was a vice-marshal who, after losing a battle against the Tibetans, fled into the mountains where five Taoist saints initiated him into the teachings of immortality. Several hundred years later he taught Lu Dong-bin, another on of the eight immortals. There a different stories of how he became an immortal. In one he met and old Taoist master in a forest, who at his request gave him prescriptions on how to attain immortality. Shortly after Zhong left this venerable master, he turned to cast a last glance at his hut but found that it had vanished. Another versions claims that during a famine Zhong produced silver coins by miraculous means and distributed them to the poor. One day, a wall of his hermitage collapsed while he was meditating and behind it he discovered a jade vessel which contained prescriptions for attain...
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