The Immortal Ma-ku Celebrating Longevity

The Immortal Ma-ku Celebrating Longevity

• Image Number: K2A002064N000000000PAA
• Dynasty: Yuan dynasty
• Category: Paintings
• Form: 軸
• Exhibition dimension: 150.9×86
• Description:
  Magu is one of the Taoist female immortals in China. When he described Emperor Huan (132-167) of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Volume 7 of Ge Hong’s “Biography of Immortals” in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the immortal Wang Yuan, with the word Fang Ping, was sent down to Cai Jingjia to invite Magu to come. She was a beautiful woman about eighteen or nine years old, He said to himself, “I have seen three mulberry fields in the East China Sea. When I came to Penglai, the water was shallow and shallower than before. It was only a little while before the meeting. How can I return them to Linglu?” Fang Ping said with a smile, “All saints say that the sea is full of dust.” ” It has become the source of the two idioms “vicissitudes of life” and “dust in the East China Sea”, which also shows her longevity. There are many legends about Magu’s life, from which it can be inferred that she was rescued by the Queen Mother of the West to practice in the mountains of Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province, where the clear springs were used to brew fine wine. When the folk legend told us that the Queen Mother of the West hosted various immortals at her birthday party on the third day of the third lunar month, she brought good wine to congratulate them. Therefore, the theme of “Magu sacrificing her life” came into being, mainly for women’s birthday.