本文考釋西晉葛洪（283-343）《神仙傳》中的〈樊夫人〉，說明樊夫人雖然道術高深，但仍須透過與丈夫劉綱競爭以印證其能力，未跳脫早期道教文獻中女仙須有男性同伴的慣例。但樊夫人在道術上勝過劉綱的表現，也可視為女仙形象走向獨立之先聲。該故事各衍生的版本中，可歸納出四種故事類型，從中發現從唐代後期開始，樊夫人在道教文獻中的形象，逐漸脫離劉綱而獨立。

This article analyzes the story of “Lady Fan (Fan furen) ” 樊夫人 in Ge Hong's 葛洪 (283-343)he Traditions of Divine Transcendents (Shenxian zhuan神仙傳) written by, and illustrates that even though the Lady Fan was depicted as aDaoist master, she still had s to prove her ability by defeating her husband Liu Gang. This shows, firstly, the tradition that female immortals were usually always accompanied by male immortals in early Daoist literatures. Secondly, this article categorizes all the different subsequent versions of the story of Lady Fan into four types to demonstrate that since the late Tang, the depiction of Lady Fan became more and more independent from the character of Liu Gang in the Daoist literatures.