Iron-Crutch Li (铁拐李 418-326BC), the leading figure of the Eight Immortals, from Sichuan, representing yin-metal in Five Agents and ☱ (兌) in Eight Trigrams. According to Daoist classics, Crutch Li was an impressive-looking guy and spent decades meditating in a mountain cave. One...See more

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