Lu Yan, also known as Lu Dongbin. A famous Taoist priest in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. Mingyan, nicknamed Chunyangzi, calls himself a Taoist. Known as Lu Zu or Chunyang Patriarch in the world, he is one of the Eight Immortals in folk mythology. Earlier records from the Song Dynasty called him "Guanzhong Yiren" or "Guanyouren". After the Yuan Dynasty, it was more consistent that he was from Yongle Town, Puban County, Hezhong Prefecture (now Ruicheng, Shanxi), or from Dongping (governed in today's Dongping, Shandong).
