In his mortal life, Baosheng Dadi was a skilled doctor and Toaist practitioner. But, legend has it, he did some pretty exceptional things, like applying eye drops to a dragon’s eye and removing a foreign object from a tiger’s throat. It makes you wonder what the emergency rooms of ancient China looked like: did they have a triage system, and special waiting rooms for deadly animals?

In any case, Baosheng Dadi’s medical miracles earned him deity status after his death in 1036. The Hongxi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty made it official and gave him the insanely long title of Imperial Inspector at Heavenly Gate, Miracle Doctor of Compassion Relief, Great Taoist Immortal, and the Long-lived, Unbounded, Life Protection Emperor. But you can just call him Dadi.