The (c. 1st century BCE) Liexian Zhuan biography of the legendary Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046-256 BCE) Daoist xian immortal or transcendent Qiong Shu () mentions the Five Minerals. It says Qiong, who was called Shizhongru (, lit. stone bell milk, stalactite), roasted and ate stalactites (), slept on a stone bed, and lived for several hundred years on Mount Song. Qiong obtained the Eight Delicious Foods and Five Minerals, which all provide longevity, and refined their essences into dumplings. A person can thus live to be one hundred, have a light body, sleep among mountain peaks, and wander with the Daoist immortals. []