Eight Immortals from Sichuan

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Eight Immortals from Sichuan (Chinese: 蜀中八仙; pinyin: Shǔ zhōng bāxiān) are eight Sichuanese who supposedly became xian ("immortals; transcendents; fairies"). The term is first used by Qiao Xiu (譙秀 qiáo xiù) in Record of Shu (《蜀紀》 shǔ zì) written in Jin Dynasty.

They are: