Zhang Zhong (Taoist)

Chang Chung (Chinese: 張中, Chinese style name 景華, fl. 14th century) was a Taoist mystic.

A native of Linchuan in Jiangxi, he was fond of study in his youth, yet failed to take his degree. He then left his books and began roaming over the mountains, where he fell in with a magician who taught him the black art; after which he became eccentric in manner and took to wearing an iron cap, thereby earning the sobriquet of the Iron-Cap Philosopher (鐵冠子).

In the novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, he is one of the Five Wanderers (五散人).

Reference

This article incorporates text from entry Chang Chung in A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert A. Giles (1898), a publication now in the public domain.