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Rh When already seventy-one years of age he was appointed Vice President of the Board of Civil Office at Nanking, and afterwards Vice President of the Censorate. He died in great poverty, his friends defraying the cost of his burial. Canonised as J^ ^.

Hai-lin Wang. See Hsiao Chao-wên.

Hai-ling Wang. See Wan-yen Liang.

Han An-kuo  (T. ^^). 2nd cent. B.C. An official who served with distinction under Prince ^ Hsiao of the Liang Principality, and on the latter*s death entered the service of the Emperor Wu Ti of the Han dynasty, and rose to be a Censor. When the Hsiung-nu proposed a matrimonial alliance, he was in favour of it, and opposed the recourse to arms suggested ^J I iR Wang Hui. The Emperor however was in favour of the latter; the result being that there was a fiasco, and Wang Hni was driven to commit suicide. Soon afterwards Han became a ACinister of State, but fell out of his carriage and for a time was obliged to go into retirement. Appointed to command the northern Qrmy, he suffered so many reverses that at length he burst a blood- Tessel from mortification and died.

Han Ch'ao-tsung. 8th cent. A.D. Son of a distinguished official named Han J^ ^ Ssti-fu. In 734 he became Governor of Ching-chou in Hupeh, and his administration was such as to call forth from the poet Li Po the following famous lines : —


 * Oh do not say that I may rule some vast and wealthy fief,
 * But grant me once to see the face of Ching-chou's honoured chief!

Transferred to Hsiang-chou, he made himself very popular by removing from an old well a notice saying, ^Those who drink here will die,*' his intercession with the spirits having caused the water to regain its original purity. Later on he got into trouble; and in 742, when false reports were spread about rebels coming,