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of military figures extended into religious life; generals such as Guan Yu were posthumously deified, his temples spreading across China from the Song dynasty onward. His composure while a surgeon scraped poison from his bone without anesthesia became an enduring archetype of masculine indifference to physical suffering. The monk Lu Zhishen, who uproots a willow tree bare-handed in Water Margin, represented a related ideal of masculine physical

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