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Rh avoid excess?** After some farther colloquy, the fisherman rowed away; and Gh'fl Yflan, clasping a large stone in his arms, plonged into the river and was seen no more. This took place on the 5th of the 5th moon; and ever afterwards the people of Ch'n commemorated the day by an annnal festival, when offerings of rice in bamboo tnbes were cast into the river as a sacrifice to the spirit of their great hero. Such is the origin of the modern Dragon-boat Festival, which is supposed to be a search for the body of Ch'a Ytlan. See ChSng Chan-yin.

Chuan Chu. 6th cent. B.C. A native of the Wu State, who was employed by ^ -^ ^ Eung-tzti Euang to assassinate his sovereign. Prince "j^ Liao, with a dagger which he secreted in the belly of a fish served np at a banquet. See Wu Yuan.

Chuan-sun Shih  (T. ). Born B.C. 504. A native of the Ch'6n State, and one of the disciples of Confucius. His ideal man was one ready to risk his life at the call of duty, and to set public before private interest; reverential at a sacrifice, and at a funeral sad. In A.D. 720 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple, and he was subsequently ennobled under a variety of titles.

Chüan Pu-i. 2Dd cent. B.C. An official under the Han dynasty. On one occasion i a fellow-lodger missed a sum of money, and suspected him of taking it. Chilan at once paid up, but shortly afterwards another fellow-lodger returned to say that when leaving he had accidentally carried off the money in question. Chflan subsequently rose to be a Censor, and was ennobled as Marquis.

Ch'üan Tê-yü ^^H (T. ^:2^). A.D. 759-818. A statesman and scholar of the T^ang dynasty. At three years of age he could distinguish the four tones, and at four he could compose poetry. At seven, his father died; and it is recorded that