Portrait of Tao Hongjing
Tao Hongjing (456-536),renowned physician,alchemist,and organizer of the Supreme Purity Taoist movement.Tao,styled Tongming, also called himself the Hermit of Huayang.He was a native of Moling,Danyang(now Nanjing,Jiangsu Province).He compiled several classical works.such as Canon of Materia Medica with Collected Annotations(Ben cao ring ji zhu)and Records on Cultivating the Nature and Prolonging Life (Yang xing yan lu).The portrait comes from Complete Biographies of Immortals (Lie xian quan zhuan).(By courtesy of Chinese Museum for History of Medicine)