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Zhongli Quan, wood sculpture, 18th century; in the Musée Guimet, Paris.
Zhongli Quan, wood sculpture, 18th century; in the Musée Guimet, Paris.

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Zhongli Quan, in Chinese religion, one of the Baxian, the Eight Immortals of Daoism. He is a wine-drinking recluse in quest of immortality and often depicted as a potbellied, bearded old man holding a fan with a tassel of horse hairs. Occasionally he is depicted as a military man and is credited with unusual knowledge of alchemy. His primacy among the Eight Immortals is challenged by a tradition that makes him an ascetic convert of Li Tieguai, another Immortal (xian). An alternate name, Han Zhongli, indicates that he probably lived during the Han dynasty (206 bce– 220 ce).

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