Lan Caihe is always regarded as the most mysterious of the Eight Immortals as Lan’s age and sex are unknown. He/She is sometimes portrayed as a young girl boy carrying a bamboo flower of basket.
Lan was known to wear one shoe and the other foot being bare. In the summer, he wore thick clothes despite the heat, while in the winter he wore thin skirts and even slept naked in the snow.
He was said to be often in a drunken stupor. Legend goes that one day when he was drinking wine in a tavern, suddenly, the room was filled with the sounds of a reed-organ and flute. Then he soared up into the sky on the back of a heavenly swan or crane. Before his leaving, he dropped down his clothes on the way up.
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