- Lu Dongbin’s Comb
- 2 “My work is like that of Lu Dongbin. He wished to select a suitable person to whom he could convey the method of attaining longevity.
- 3 Pretending to be a peddler selling combs, he went out into the streets, shouting, ‘If you use this comb, your gray hair will turn dark, your hunched back will straighten, your frail health will be restored, and your face will regain its youth. You will have a long life without aging. The price is one thousand nyahng.’
- 4 He called this out for a long time. People refused to believe him and said he was crazy.
- 5 Eventually, an old woman among the passing crowd bought the comb and tried it. Indeed, her hair turned dark, and the teeth she had long done without grew back out of her gums.
- 6 Only then did people rush to buy the combs, but, at that moment, Lu Dongbin ascended to heaven.”
- (JSD Dojeon 7,63)
