{"id":910,"date":"2018-05-10T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davealber.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:09:58","slug":"lady-he-of-the-eight-immortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/2018\/05\/10\/lady-he-of-the-eight-immortals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady He (He Xiangu) of the Eight Immortals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lady-he-eight-immortals-dave-alber-1-724x1024.jpg' alt='' title='lady-he-eight-immortals-dave-alber' height=\"1024\" width=\"724\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h5><em>Lady He (He Xiangu) of the Eight Immortals<\/em> is a mixed media painting by Dave Alber.<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h5>2018<i><br \/>\n<\/i>mixed media on paper<br \/>\n8.27 x 11.7 in<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Lady He (He Xiangu) of the Eight Immortals<\/strong>\u00a0is a mixed media painting by Travel Writer Dave Alber. Lady He is the only female of the 8 Taoist Immortals. I visited a shrine to He Xiangu in Henan, China as described in the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/2018\/05\/04\/article-ancestors-and-immortals\/\">Ancestors and Immortals<\/a><\/strong>. In legend Lady He is a celibate physician and an inspirational figure for practitioners of Chinese Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/2018\/05\/19\/article-ancestors-and-immortals\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-952 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ancestors-and-immortals-article-dave-alber-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ancestors-and-immortals-article-dave-alber-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ancestors-and-immortals-article-dave-alber-768x530.jpg 768w, http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ancestors-and-immortals-article-dave-alber-1024x706.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/davealber.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ancestors-and-immortals-article-dave-alber.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This painting was published in\u00a0Dave Alber&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/2018\/05\/19\/article-ancestors-and-immortals\/\"><strong>&#8220;Ancestors and Immortals: a Foreigner\u2019s Introduction to Ching Ming Festival&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0which appeared in Suzhou, China&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Open Magazine<\/em>, Issue 138, April 2018.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/davealber.com\/2018\/05\/19\/article-ancestors-and-immortals\/\">Read the article\u00a0HERE!<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,146,678,153],"tags":[550,502,12,551,1050,1049,1047,1048,787,783,784,786,785,789,790,791,788,546,547,548,549,138],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-china-art","category-intimations","category-travel-art","tag-8-immortals","tag-chingming-festival","tag-dave-alber","tag-eight-immortals","tag-intimations-art","tag-intimations-art-show","tag-intimations-exhibit","tag-intimations-show","tag-kunchef","tag-kunshan","tag-kunshan-china","tag-kunshan-culture","tag-kunshan-exhibit","tag-kunshan-restaurant","tag-kunshan-show","tag-kunshan-tourism","tag-kunshan-travel","tag-lady-he","tag-lady-hu","tag-taoist-immortal","tag-taoist-immortals","tag-travel-art"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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