Editing Eight Immortals (section)

==Worship==
Established in the [[Song Dynasty]], the [[Xi'an]] temple Eight Immortals Palace ({{lang|zh-hant|八仙宮}}), formerly Eight Immortals Nunnery ({{lang|zh-hant|八仙庵}}), has a collection of statues depicting the Immortals in what is called the Hall of Eight Immortals ({{lang|zh-hant|八仙殿}}). There are many other shrines dedicated to them throughout China and Taiwan. In [[Singapore]], the Xian'gu Temple ({{lang|zh-hant|仙姑殿}}) is dedicated to the Immortal Lady He from the group as its focus of devotion.

Overall though, in the [[Sinosphere]], the Eight Immortals are depicted as [[deities]] who are very often not seen as such, being more like [[Folk hero|folk heroes]] and [[Saint|saints]] to most who venerate them.<ref name=":100">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46661540 |title=World Religions: Eastern Traditions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |others=Edited by Willard Gurdon Oxtoby |year=2002 |isbn=0-19-541521-3 |edition=2nd |location=Don Mills, Ontario |pages=401 |oclc=46661540}}</ref> However, to these people, the Immortals often "represent&nbsp;... the close ties between the living and the deceased, since the spirits of the deceased are always within reach when help in needed" in some branches of [[Chinese folk religion]] and their existence is seen as being similar to [[Ghosts in Chinese culture|ghosts]] as well.<ref name=":100" />