Cao Guojiu
Chinese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
The Eight are socially assorted on purpose — a beggar, a court official, a musician, an old drunk, a woman, an androgyne — and Cao Guojiu is the one who arrives from the top. His castanets, in the sets that give them to him, are court instruments; the group's point is that the Dao is reached from any starting position, and his is the most encumbered one.
Domains
- nobility
- renunciation
Relations
- companion: Han XiangziOne of the Eight.Reference treatment of the Eight Immortals as a fixed group. (secondary)
- companion: Li TieguaiOne of the Eight.Reference treatment of the Eight Immortals as a fixed group. (secondary)
Sources
- Cao Guojiu is one of the Eight Immortals, a member of the Song imperial family shown in court dress with the audience tablet, who renounced his position on discovering his family's corruption.: Reference treatments of Cao Guojiu and the Eight Immortals. (secondary)