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204 Ch'un I-huan  Died A.D. 1891. The seventh son of the Emperor Tao Enang, his mother being the sister of the Empress Dowager Tz'ti Hsi, whose son reigned as T'nng Chih. Under the latter monarch he became a Prince of the 1st order and a Grand Chamberlain, and held other high posts at Conrt. On the accession of his son, the Emperor Enang Hstl, he relinquished the command of the Peking Field Force, and retired into priyate life until the Treaty of liyadia. On the fall of Prince Kung in 1884 1 he succeeded to the leadership of the GoYernment, a Decree of the Empress Dowager directing the Grand Council, during the £mperor*8 minority, to refer all important questions to him. In 1885 he became President of the new Board of Admiralty, and went on a tour of inspection to Tientsin, Chefoo, and Port Arthur in the following year, during which he also received the foreign Ministers at Peking. His princedom was made hereditary for eyer by his son; and after 1880 he was Dir«ctor-in-chief of the Peking Field Force. He was popularly known as ^ ^ the Seventh Prince, and his style was ^^ the Imperial Father. He was canonised as ^ ; his name |^ was forbidden to be used in writing; and a temple was erected to him in the Imperial City, where Imperial rites are paid to his memory.

Ch'un-yü I. Born B.C. 205. A superintendent of granaries in the Principality of Ch4, distinguished for his knowledge of medicine. In B.C. 180 he was appointed to be Court physician, and is said to have practised according* to the principles of the legendary Pien Ch4ao with much success. Being treated contemptuously by the nobles, he declined to make further use of his skill, and in B.C. 167 fell into disfavour with the Emperor W£n Ti, who would have subjected him to the punishment of mutilation but for the devotion of his daughter T4-ying. From this date the above penalty was abolished.