The 8 Immortals - Rewarding the Honest / Asiapac comic series / Chinese beliefs & legends

The 8 Immortals - Rewarding the Honest / Asiapac comic series / Chinese beliefs & legends // The Eight Immortals are back! Join them in yet another round of escapades! This book is illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Chan Kok Sing. Why do the Chinese consider the number Eight to be a lucky number? For the answer to this question, look no further than the Eight Immortals, who are one of the most popular subjects of art and craft in China. The term Eight Immortals is used figuratively for happiness. The Chinese regard happiness as one of the most important qualities in life. The stories in this book recount the selfless actions and good deeds of the Eight Immortals. The Eight Immortals also play a significant role in relation to the Bagua, or Eight Trigrams, of the I Ching, the most popular classic of traditional China. Each of them is associated with a certain direction of the Eight Trigrams which is applied in the Bazhen Tu, the Battle Chart of the Eight Trigrams, used by folk Taoists to counter the work of black magic practitioners. In this volume, read about a miser with 100 mothers who drive him nuts with their incessant bickering. Or the licentious and rich tyrant who is tricked into marrying his own mother for snatching another man's bride. These tales and more will keep you enthralled... Contents: One Hundred Mothers, The Magical Strand of Beard, The Magic Scissors, The incorrigible Lazybones, Theft of the Magic Donkey, Wicked Skinny Monkey, The Efficacious Ointment /// This is a great product sourced from BIML - Bible In My Language, the leader in foreign language Bibles and outreach materials from Baltimore, Maryland in the USA. BIML stocks Bibles in more than 600 languages.