Li Changgeng

Li Changgeng, styled (Zuo Shi You Wan) Bai, was from Qingzhou (now the area around Mount Tai in Shandong Province). A recluse in Wudang during the Ming Dynasty. According to the Qing Dynasty's "Great Mountain Taihe Mountain Annals", Li Changgeng was born with a passion for Taoism and read every book. When Li Changgeng entered Wudang to practice Taoism, he met a monk at the Canglang Pavilion in Junzhou. He had thick eyebrows and a red face, and was about sixty or seventy years old. He called himself the Four-Dimensional Elder and said that he had been practicing Taoism in Wudang for many years. Li Changgeng then retired from him. His whereabouts are unknown. In the preface of the ninth year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1744 AD), Wang Gai, the deputy director of the Inspector General of the Southern Jingzhou Circuit and the chief compiler of the Wudang Mountain Annals, said that when he was a child, he often saw the Taoist priest that Li Changgeng had seen. At that time, people all believed that he was Luo Hongxian, a Taoist priest of the Ming Dynasty. If this were true, Luo Hongxian would be two or three decades old at this time.