Lan Caihe (藍采和) ("Lan Ts'ai-ho" in Wade-Giles) is the least well known of the Eight Immortal figures in Daoism. His/her age and sex are unknown, though he/she is generally thought to have lived during the Five Dynasties period (907-960 C.E.).[1] Lan Caihe is “sometimes regarded as a woman or even a hermaphrodite.”[2] In most illustrations, he is depicted as a young effeminate boy or youth carrying