Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Rong Qiqi was also popularly associated with a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians called the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who came together in the 3rd century CE. This is indicated in some apocryphal art from the 4th century CE, in a tomb near Nanjing, depicting Rong Qiqi with the Seven Sages. However, the Seven Sages lived in a time period long after Rong Qiqi's, so this association apocryphally assumes that Rong Qiqi as a real person.