Historical Who is Who » EIGHT IMMORTALS
A group of revered Taoist individuals, each of whom is associated with a distinctive emblem, seven men and one woman (eighth):Chung-li Ch'uan - a fan Chang Kuo-lao - a drumLu Tung-pin - a sword Ts'ao Kuo-chiu - courtly costume + castanetsLi Tieh-kuai - beggar's iron crutch Han Hsiang-tzu - fluteLan Ts'ai-ho - flower basket Ho Hsien-ku - Lotus/bamboo ladle
http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/jras/1916-21.htm
http://en.daoinfo.org/wiki/The_Eight_Immortals
Stories and pictures
The Stories of the Eight Immortals https://archive.org/details/StoriesAndMythsOfEightImmortals
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/bashian/bs0Intro.html
Pictorial images https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eight+immortals&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1XSZU8m1DaSi0QWazYDwDA&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1034&bih=504&dpr=1.5
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