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with the power of healing. The name, meaning the "Great

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Legend

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According to the text ''Self-Description of Chisongzi'' (; "Master Red Pine"), Wong Tai Sin was born Huang Chuping (Wong Cho Ping in Cantonese) in 328 in Lanxi,

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at the age of fifteen after meeting an

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or saintly person on Red Pine Mountain in his hometown. Legend has it that he was able to transform

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s into sheep forty years later. Wong Tai Sin later became known as the Red Pine Immortal (), after the mountain where he had his hermitage, and his birthday is celebrated on the 23rd of the eighth lunar month.

Influence in Hong Kong

Today, Sik Sik Yuen is an educational and charitable foundation that, true to Leung's origins as a healer, runs a free clinic and a number of schools and colleges. In Hong Kong, the

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area and

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are named after the deity. There is also one MTR station that is named as

Wong Tai Sin station Wong Tai Sin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It is named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple, which is managed by Taoist organisation Sik Sik Yuen. Livery The station's livery is yellow to reflect the character "Wong" in Chinese (), which m ...

. Many worshippers and tourists from all over the world visit Wong Tai Sin Temple everyday.

In popular culture

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has the role of the TVB's tv series,

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in the eighties. * Lam Ching Ying is another role for the movie of TVB's same title in 1992, depicting the life story of Wong Tai Sin.

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Legend

Influence in Hong Kong

In popular culture

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