The Red Robed One, a deity often found in the company of Wen-chang. He acts as the patron of ill-prepared candidates for official examinations.

In Chinese mythology, Zhu Rong is the god of fire and the ruler of the southern hemisphere. He is the father of Gong Gong, a demon that causes floods. Zhu Rong helped to separate the heaven and the earth. He rides a tiger. He is also simply referred to as Li.

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 attaining immortality. He followed these and was borne away to the immortals on a shimmering cloud.

Zhong Li-quan’s symbol was a fan made of feathers or palm leaves. He is usually portrayed as a corpulent man, bald, with a beard that reaches to his navel. In representations of the eight immortals he can also be recognized by the wisps of hair that grace his temples.