Old Man of the Gourd 老翁

Other names

Career and standing

• seller of medicine in the market 市中卖药
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 226
• A man among the immortals banished for a fault · 我神仙之人，以过见责 · Mode self-report Source Person Id Old Man of the Gourd (老翁)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passage 232

Works and attributed material

• AD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉）
  Judgment · Speaker · With Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Quoted · Summary declared that Zhangfang could be taught, and afterwards that he had come within a little of obtaining the Way but had failed at the last test
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 243, 245
• AD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉）
  Speech · Speaker · With Fei Zhangfang (费长房) · Quoted · Summary told Fei Zhangfang to come again the next day, forbade him to speak of the gourd, revealed that he was a banished immortal whose term was finished and asked whether Zhangfang could follow him, offering a farewell cup
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 228, 231-233

Events and relationships

• Took Fei Zhangfang into the gourd, where a splendid jade hall was filled with fine wine and delicacies, and lifted the immovable wine jar with one finger; the vessel looked to hold a sheng yet the two drank all day without exhausting it
  AD 25 to AD 220 费长房事（无纪年，东汉） · Uncanny · Host · With Fei Zhangfang (费长房)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 229-230, 235-236
• tested Fei Zhangfang with the bamboo substitute, the tigers, the suspended stone and the dung, and judged him teachable
  Relation Teacher of · Person Fei Zhangfang (费长房)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 238, 241-244

Assessments and attributes

• Item a gourd hung at the head of his shop 壶 · Relation Possessed · he leapt into it when the market closed, unseen by the market people
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 93, passages 226-227