“The Man Who Shot Lü Dongbin,” by R. Jean Mathieu

This is officially the 200th post on R. Jean Mathieu’s Innerspace! I can’t believe it any more than you can!

A final confrontation between Old China and New in the mad depths of the Cultural Revolution, come meet “The Man Who Shot Lü Dongbin.“

The Old must go that the New may come.

So the Great Helmsman said.

We must eliminate the Four Olds.

So his generals and ministers said.

But there were more than four. There were so many more than four.

Bi Yadie’s grandmother had believed Lü Dongbin, wise leader of the Eight Immortals, was a saint, a being of compassion that would intercede when she begged hard enough. Bi Yadie knew better. Bi Yadie’s mother had believed Lü Dongbin was merely a story, told to delight the simple and the childish. But Bi Yadie knew better. He knew that Lü Dongbin was a capitalist-roader, an old-style feudalist of the worst kind.

The year is 1964. Bi Yadie, Group Leader of the Heaven-Earth Harmonization Task Force, has tracked the last of the Chinese gods, the Taoist Immortal Lü Dongbin to his mountain fastness. His mission is simple: to eliminate Lü Dongbin from the new Liberated Era of the People’s Republic of China.

But old legends do not die so easy. Lü Dongbin has prepared for this moment, and armed himself…with a cup of tea.

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