The Beneficent Saviors' Literary Anthology 徐仙翰藻

Its original author is unrecorded.

According to the postscript at the end of the book, it was compiled by Chen Menggen in the 9th year of the Dade reign of the Yuan Dynasty (1305).

In fourteen volumes, it is included in The Daozang as a supplementary collection.

This anthology compiles more than two hundred poems, odes, rhymes and various proses: some are purportedly spirit-written by the Xu Immortals, and others are biographies and eulogies about them, hence the collective title Elegant Literary Works of the Xu Immortals. The so-called Xu Immortals refer to the brothers Xu Zhizheng and Xu Zhi'e of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sons of Xu Wen, Prime Minister of the Wu Kingdom, who were later enfeoffed as Prince of Jiang and Prince of Rao respectively. From the Five Dynasties and Northern Song dynasties to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, folk temples were widely built to venerate these two deities. In the 2nd year of the Jiaxi reign of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty (1238), they were conferred the divine title of Lingji (Divine Salvation) by imperial edict; in the Yongle reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, they were further ennobled as the True Lords of Boundless Grace and Divine Salvation.

Most of the poems and proses in this book eulogize the meritorious virtues of the Xu Immortals, recount their deeds of divine manifestations and responsive salvations, as well as the stories of people from various regions who venerated the Xu Immortals and erected temples for sacrificial rituals during the Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan dynasties. The Imperial Catalogue of the Four Treasuries records that a block-printed edition of this book existed in the Yuan Dynasty, with a preface written by Zhou Zhuangweng, Director of Education of Fuzhou, in the Yiyou year of the Zhiyuan reign (1295).

This edition is slightly different from the version preserved in The Dongxuan Section of the Taoist Canon.