英文摘要 |
This article analyzes the story of “Lady Fan (Fan furen) ” 樊夫人 in Ge Hong's 葛洪 (283-343)he Traditions of Divine Transcendents (Shenxian zhuan 神仙傳) written by, and illustrates that even though the Lady Fan was depicted as aDaoist master, she still had s to prove her ability by defeating her husband Liu Gang. This shows, firstly, the tradition that female immortals were usually always accompanied by male immortals in early Daoist literatures. Secondly, this article categorizes all the different subsequent versions of the story of Lady Fan into four types to demonstrate that since the late Tang, the depiction of Lady Fan became more and more independent from the character of Liu Gang in the Daoist literatures. |