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{{Short description|Taoist leader in the Sixteen Kingdoms era}}
'''Fan Changsheng''' ({{lang|zh|范長生}} Fàn Chángshēng) (died 318) was a [[Taoist priest]] and leader who was instrumental in the establishment of the [[Cheng Han|Cheng-Han]] state during the [[Sixteen Kingdoms]] era in [[China]]. He led a Taoist community of over one thousand families on [[Mount Qingcheng]], [[Sichuan]]. During a critical famine, Fan Changsheng provided [[Li Xiong]]'s army with food from his community's bounty. With Fan's help, Li Xiong achieved victory over [[Luo Shang]]'s army during Li Xiong's siege of [[Chengdu]].

After Li Xiong's victory, he offered Fan the throne. Fan declined, claiming that the year 304 would be an auspicious date (being a ''jiazi'' year) for someone from the [[Li (surname)|Li family]] to take the throne. Fan Changsheng then served as the Chancellor of Cheng-Han under [[Li Xiong]]. Fan later helped to persuade [[Li Xiong]] to take the title of emperor. After Fan's death, his son [[Fan Ben]] succeeded him as the Chancellor of Cheng-Han.

Fan was the author of the lost work, ''Shucai'' ({{lang|zh|蜀才}}), a ten volume commentary on the [[I Ching]]. He was later considered to be one of the [[Eight Immortals from Sichuan]].

==References==
* Kleeman, Terry F., ''Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom'', {{ISBN|978-0-8248-1800-5}}

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[[Category:318 deaths]]
[[Category:4th-century Taoists]]
[[Category:Jin dynasty (266–420) Taoists]]
[[Category:Taoist religious leaders]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]
[[Category:Taoist immortals]]

Fan Changsheng - Revision history

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