. The mythology of all races. Fig. 50. Chang Kuo Yeh Fa-shan who Chang Kuo really was, and after having beenpromised immunity from the consequences of his disclosure,Yeh replied that Chang Kuo was the original vapour. TheEmperor was unable to protect Yeh from the consequences ofhis remark, and Yeh was struck dead. The characteristics ofChang Kuo are that he is represented as riding on a whitedonkey, usually backwards, and that in his hand he carries aphoenix-feather and sometimes a peach of immortality. 126 chinp:se mythology (6) Han Hsiang is reputed to have been a nephew of theillustrious sc
. The mythology of all races. Fig. 50. Chang Kuo Yeh Fa-shan who Chang Kuo really was, and after having beenpromised immunity from the consequences of his disclosure,Yeh replied that Chang Kuo was the original vapour. TheEmperor was unable to protect Yeh from the consequences ofhis remark, and Yeh was struck dead. The characteristics ofChang Kuo are that he is represented as riding on a whitedonkey, usually backwards, and that in his hand he carries aphoenix-feather and sometimes a peach of immortality. 126 chinp:se mythology (6) Han Hsiang is reputed to have been a nephew of theillustrious scholar Han Yu, 768-824 , who was a strenuousopponent of all forms of magic. He became a convert of LuTung-pin, contrary to the wishes of his uncle, who desired himto carry on classical studies in preparation for the public exam-inations. The youth said that the object of his studies differed. Fig. 51. Han Hsiang from that of his uncle and that he wished to be able to producegood wine without the use of any grain and also to be able tocause flowers to blossom instantaneously. When the uncle ex-pressed doubt as to his being able to defy the laws of nature,Han Hsiang put a little earth under a basin, and, upon liftingit, disclosed two flowers, on the leaves of which were written ingold characters a poem of two lines of seven characters poem referred to the clouds blocking the path on theChing Peak and snow filling the Lan Pass. Han Hsiang re- SUPERNATURAL BEINGS 127 fused to explain the meaning of the poem, but his uncle under-stood it later when he was exiled by the Emperor to Ch^ao-chouin Kuangtung Province. The characteristic of Han Hsiang Is agourd-shaped basket full of the peaches of immortality andheld in the two hands. Sometimes he is also represented hold-ing a bouquet of flowers.
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