Immortals are characters in China's myths and legends. Immortals refer to some omnipotent saints who jump out of the three realms, never reincarnate and live forever. Taoism says: people who jump out of the three realms and are not in the five elements are immortals. Immortals are people who get the Tao and saints of the Truth.

Aliens are not immortals, Buddhist immortals are not immortals, ghosts and gods are not immortals, heaven and man are not immortals, and neither are Japanese immortals.

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As a belief, God often exists all over the world. He can be the embodiment of human beings or natural phenomena. There are three kinds of gods in China: "gods, territories and ghosts", and there are also two kinds: the first god is like Sanqing, and the first one is like Guan Yu. ?

Fairy is said to have special abilities and can live forever in ancient China mythology. Fairy is different from god, it has innate existence and can only be cultivated the day after tomorrow.

After Indian Buddhism was introduced into China, practitioners (non-Buddhist believers) of ancient Indian pagans were translated into immortals, and buddhas were also translated into immortals, such as the Seven Immortals and the Great Immortals. In the process of translating Buddhist scriptures and explaining doctrines, Han Buddhism bound and unilaterally expounded the "immortal" culture. However, different deification systems and different cultural backgrounds cannot be confused and compared with each other.

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