Hán Yù raised his grand-nephew Han Xiangzi in the Confucian classics, but the youth abandoned scholarship for the Dao, setting uncle and nephew on opposing paths that would define both their legends.
Han Xiangzi wrote a prophetic poem on a flower petal predicting his uncle Hán Yù's exile to Cháozhōu, and when the great Confucian was banished for offending the emperor, the immortal nephew appeared through the snow at Lan Pass to rescue him — proving at last the power of the Dao the old scholar had spent a lifetime denying.
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