Li A
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Li A (, fl. 229-259) was a legendary
Daoist ("transcendent; 'immortal'") and
diviner who founded of the
Way of the Li Family, which was one of the oldest
schools of
religious Daoism that was popular throughout
South China during the
Six Dynasties (220-589). Owing to his extraordinary lifespan, Li A's
sobriquet was
Babaisui gong (, "Sir Eight-Hundred-Years-Old"), which resulted in confusion or conflation with several other transcendents, one named
Li Babai (, "Li Eight-Hundred[-Years-Old]"), and the charlatan Li Tuo () who took the name Li Babai
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