赤松子 / Chisongzi

赤松子 / Chisongzi enters the wiki through Hanji 171 part 1 as the immortal figure invoked by 张良 after 刘邦 has founded the early 西汉 order. The episode introduces him as an ancient mythic immortal, also called 赤宋子, associated with rain mastery, healing and longevity lore, and stories preserved in 《搜神记》.

The page’s main role is political rather than hagiographic. Zhang Liang’s stated wish to follow Chisongzi lets him turn retreat from court life into a transcendent aspiration. 司马光 reads this as intelligent self-protection: if Zhang Liang knows immortal claims are unreliable, the Chisongzi language becomes a way to make non-participation in power respectable and non-threatening.

Key Claims

• Chisongzi functions in this source as a named destination for Zhang Liang’s post-founding withdrawal.
• The episode treats the mythology as part of Chinese immortal and fangshu lore, not as verified supernatural fact.
• Zhang Liang’s Chisongzi reference links 道教养生术 to 假托神仙式权力退场: spiritual vocabulary helps make political retreat durable.

Connections

• 张良 - founding strategist who invokes Chisongzi while withdrawing from power.
• 司马光 - historian whose evaluation turns the immortal reference into a political reading.
• 《搜神记》 - text named by the episode for Chisongzi lore.
• 道教养生术, 方术系统化, and 假托神仙式权力退场 - practice, mythic, and political interpretation cluster.