Hán Xiāng 韓湘 (b. 795; CBDB index year 795) — Táng poet and grand-nephew of Hán Yù 韓愈 (768–824). In SòngYuán hagiographic and dramatic tradition transformed into Hán Xiāngzǐ 韓湘子, one of the Eight Immortals (Bā xiān 八仙) of late-imperial popular religion, conventionally portrayed playing the dí 笛 flute (whence his planchette-cult title Sānshān díshǐ 三山笛史 — “Three-Mountain Flute Recorder”). The historical Hán Xiāng was a jìnshì (CBDB attests his early-9th-century career) but the figure of Hán Xiāngzǐ the immortal is principally SòngYuán fiction, with a vast body of late-imperial drama and bǎojuàn attached to his cult. He is the framing planchette persona for KR5i0048 Wǔ jīng hé biān. CBDB ID 94722. Standard reference: Yang & Yang, Eight Immortals; Wells, The Idle Yet Valiant Immortal Han Xiangzi: Spreading the Dao on the Sea of Sweet Drops (Hawai’i 2007).