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Zhang Ziyang张紫阳

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A celestial being in Journey to the West mythology who gave a palm-bark coat to protect the empress.

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In fiction · Journey to the West

Zhang Ziyang is a celestial being in Journey to the West mythology. He once transformed an old palm-bark coat into a new rosy garment and gave it to the empress to protect her from evil spirits, and later removed the spell from her.

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Sources: Journey to the West, ch. 71

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