Fairy legend says that he was over 300 years old in the Zhou Dynasty, born with white hair, a bulging head, a wide forehead and big ears, a long eyebrow and a wide nose, a thick mouth and lips, three or five grains carved on his forehead, and three leaks in his ears. Calm and without desire, advocating inaction. His longevity is idolized by later generations. Worship. I hope people live a long life, which is often called "the birthday girl".
The mythical god of longevity
The Antarctic old man star, originally a star whose name has dropped many times, is one of the three stars of Fu, Lu and Shou. After Qin Shihuang unified the world, the Shouxing Temple was built in Duxian County near Chang 'an, and the Houshouxing evolved into the name of a fairy.
The Journey to the West, a novel in Ming Dynasty, wrote that the birthday girl "holds Ganoderma lucidum in her hand", with long head, big ears and short body. There is a fairy tale of "happiness, auspiciousness and longevity" in Warning the World.
In the portrait, the birthday boy is an old man with a white beard, holding a cane and raising his forehead. The ancients regarded it as a symbol of longevity, and deer, cranes and peaches were often used as a foil to symbolize longevity. People believe that offering sacrifices to this immortal god can make people healthy and live a long life. This immortal is actually a belief of Taoism in pursuing longevity.