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Du Guangting (Bingsheng)
Late Tang and Five Dynasties Daoist patriarch and fiction writer (850–933 CE), codified Daoist liturgy and penned 'The Curly-Bearded Hero' (Qiuran Ke Zhuan).
In a temple courtyard at dusk, a great bronze bell hangs at the right and incense smoke rises from a bronze urn; monks in orange robes and plainly dressed visitors walk toward a lamplit hall, lotus flowers bloom in a stone basin, and a gold prayer wheel stands at the left.
Also known as Master Guangcheng · Dongyingzi
Du Guangting (850–933 CE), style name Bingsheng, was a grand patriarch of Shangqing Daoism and chancellor of Former Shu. Beyond systematizing Daoist canonical rituals, he authored the timeless heroic legend 'The Curly-Bearded Hero' (Qiuran Ke Zhuan), creating the iconic 'Three Heroes of the Dusty World' (Li Jing, Hongfu Nu, and Qiuran Ke).
Life and times
Dates 850–933 CE