Sources present Chen Fu Zhen Ren as a figure from a Chaozhou/Fujian migrant family who, noted for filial piety and skill as a craftsman, served local polities. According to a temple stele and a Malayan-script life history, he became captain of a single-poled ship, survived a wreck in the Bali Strait and was cast ashore at Blambangan. He is said to have built a palace at Macanputih (Banyuwangi), been summoned to build for the Mengwi king in Bali, suffered betrayal when officers were sent to kill him, and ultimately departed the world by climbing Sembulungan Mountain where he attained immortality. Scholarly readings infer these events after 1729 CE (interpretive dating by Salmon and Sidharta) but the primary inscriptions do not give exact years.
The stele biography and the Malayan-script life history preserved in cited sources do not provide a standardized iconographic or physical description; the available documents record actions and episodes (shipwreck, palace-building, walking on water, ascent to immortality) but do not record clothing, facial features, or a fixed statue-form in the quoted material.
Legendary acts in the sources include survival of a shipwreck, exceptional skill as a craftsman who built palaces in Bali and Blambangan, supernatural travel (the account says Tan Cin Jin walked over the water across the Bali Strait while two officers used his sandals as a boat), and attainment of immortality after ascending Sembulungan Mountain. The narrative also places him within a supernatural kin network in which his brothers become local powers (one a beach deity at Watu Dodol, another a tiger), producing protective taboos reported by worshipers.
Weaknesses
None recorded.
Wards
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Naga
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Domovoi
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Yaksha
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Apsara
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Chax (Shax)
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Chazaqiel
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Chedorlaomer
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Chelone
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Chen Jinggu (陳靖姑)
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Chenghuangshen (City God)
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Cheonyeo Gwishin (Virgin Ghost)
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Cherchen (Chercheny)
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Cherin
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Chernava
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- [2]Wikidata: Chen Fu Zhen Ren. Wikidata entry Q9009023 for Chen Fu Zhen Ren.other