 Liexian Zhuan

The Liexian Zhuan, sometimes translated as Biographies of Immortals, is the oldest extant Chinese hagiography of Daoist "xian" "transcendents; immortals; saints; alchemists".The text, which compiles the life stories of about 70 mythological and historical "xian", was traditionally attributed to the Western Han dynasty editor and imperial librarian Liu Xiang (77-8 BCE), but internal evidence dates it to the 2nd century CE during the Eastern Han period.