Because there are still related relics in the early days of Lijiaba in Tie Guai Li, the government is now planning to build the Eight Immortals Garden in Jiubenqiu, the original site, but the generally accepted image is that he has a dark face, fluffy hair, a golden hoop, a messy beard, big eyes, a lame leg and an iron cane.
However, in Taoist classics, it is said that he was originally a handsome man, studied Taoism in a cave, and achieved high attainments, even being able to leave his soul in vitro. One day, he decided to find an expert, so he ordered his apprentice to guard his body and then his soul went out to play.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, something happened to the apprentice's family and he needed to go home quickly, so he had to burn the master's body home. Soon Li Tie's ghost came back, but he couldn't find his own body. He was very scared. Finally, he finally found a starved body in the Woods, and with his help, he was resurrected and became like this.
Among the people in China, he has a great influence mainly in medicine, because it is said that the magical elixir is kept in the gourd on his back. Therefore, people engaged in the plaster industry in China later regarded him as their father.
After becoming an immortal, Tie Guai Li specialized in pharmacology, refined the ointment for treating rheumatism and bone pain, saved all sentient beings in Enze Village, won the support of the people, and was named "King of Medicine". Among the Eight Immortals, Tie Guai Li is the oldest and most experienced, and the folklore is the first to promote the Eight Immortals, which is in the same era as the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in Jinfeng Village of Simian Mountain.
If extreme didn't burn his body, Tie Guai Li would still be a handsome figure, but he eventually became a cripple.