In Taoist pictures you can see his "seven-stars sword," which cuts off greed, lust and worry. Carrying a wisp and with the air of the literatus, this frail intellectual Lu Tung-pin seems to be at odds with the crafty immortal of the folk tradition. That he should be the patron saint of barber shops is another case in point.
道教畫像中身背「斷貪嗔、斷愛欲、斷煩惱」的七星劍、手持拂塵，孚佑帝君文人雅士、仙風道骨的形貌，與其流傳民間詼諧、風趣的事蹟似乎很難吻合，而其成為理髮業的祖師爺又是一例。