Biographies of Immortals

The Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) was styled Xuanyuan "High Shaft". He was able to stimulate the hundred spirits, to call them to his court and to command them. He could already speak when he was a baby and knew the future thanks to his divinity. He knew the nature of all things and made himself Master of Clouds, having the shape of a dragon. The Yellow Emperor chose himself his days of absence and took his leave from the ministers. When he died, he was buried on "Bridge Mountain" Qiaoshan. The mountain later collapsed, and his coffin was discovered to contain no corpse, only sword and sandals. The Book of Fairies says, the Yellow Emperor collected ores from the "Head Mountain" Shoushan and casted a ding tripod at the foothills of Mount Jingshan. When the tripod was finished, a dragon with a long beard came down from heaven to look after the Yellow Emperor, who immediately ascended to Heaven. His ministers and officials all tried to catch the beard of the dragon and followed the emperor. When they tried to clamber the emperor's bow, the dragon's beard came off. The bow falling down, all the ministers were not more able to follow their emperor, watched after him and cried loudly. Later generations gave this area the name "Tripod Lake" and called the bow "Crow's Cries".

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The Old Master (Laozi)'s name was Er, his style was Boyang, and he was from the state of Chen. He was born during the Yin (Shang) dynasty and served as a scribe "under the pillar" under the Zhou dynasty. He liked to live from his own breathe's essence and knew how to acquire it without spending too much. Later, he became archivist and served for more than eighty years - the Shiji says, for more than two hundred years - and his contemporarians called him "the hidden nobleman". His posthumous name is Dan. Once, Zhongni (Confucius) went to Zhou and met Laozi. Confucius knew that Laozi was a wise man and accepted him as his teacher. Later, when the virtue of the house of Zhou vanished, Laozi mounted a chart, driven by a green-grayish ox. He traveled to the country of Great Qin, where he had to enter the Western Pass. The guardian of the pass, called Yin Xi treated him like a host because he knew that Laozi was a saint. Yin Xi forced Laozi to write down his teachings in a book with two chapters and the two parts about the Way and its Virtue.