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The Dongxianzhuan 洞仙傳 "Biographies of immortals from the cavern" is a collection of biographies of Daoist masters compiled by an anonymous author during the Song period 宋 (960-1279). It includes the stories of 77 persons from ancient times, like the Lord of the Origin 元君 to Jiang Bozhen 姜伯真 and other historical persons like Xu Fu 徐福, Yu Ji 于吉, Guo Pu 郭璞 or Kou Qianzhi 寇谦之. Although the Dongxianzhuan is not listed in private bibliographies from that time, like the Junzhai dushu zhi 郡齋讀書志 or Zhizhai shulu jieti 直齋書錄解題, it is often quoted in the encyclopedic collection Taiping guangji 太平廣記 and the Daoist encyclopedia Yunji qiqian 雲笈七籤 (which quotes the full text of the Dongxianzhuan). It is mentioned in the tiyao 提要 commentary to the collectaneum Siku quanshu 四庫全書, for which a copy of Wang Ruli 汪汝溧 had been used.
Source: Li Xueqin 李學勤, Lü Wenyu 呂文鬰 (1996). Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, vol. 2, p. 2312. Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe.
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