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256 "Truth began to be obscured, and literature to fade. Supernatural "religions sprang up on all sides; and many eminent scholars "failed to oppose their advance, until Han Yd, the cotton-clothed, "arose and blasted them with his derisiye sneer.'* In the yerses which follow, he adds —


 * But above, in heaven, there was no music, and God was sad,
 * And summoned him to his place beside the Throne.

He was ennobled as Earl of Gh'ang-li, and canonised as ^ ^. In 1084 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

Han Yung  (T. ^^). A.D. 1428-U79. A distinguished provincial ofBcial, who graduated as Mn shih in 1442, and for valour against rebels was appointed Governor of Eiangsi at the early age of 29. His administration was excellent; however in 1457 he was denounced for riding in a sedan-chair, and was thrown into prison. Three years later he became Governor of HsJlan^ Fu and Ta-t'ung in Shansi. The Emperor Hsien Tsung, on mounting the throne, at once degraded him, but was soon forced to employ him against an irruption of the Euangsi aborigines into Euangtung. Han's strategy proved a success; the famous ^ ^ Rattan Gorge was forced (its name being changed to ^ Gut Rattan); and the rebels were crushed. As Viceroy of the Two Euang, he quelled fresh risings between 1467 and 1473; but the eunuch Inspector and the assistants of Han, smarting under his scornful treatment of them, united in denouncing him, and in 1474 he was compelled to retire. Canonised as

Hang Shih-chün Graduated as cha jen in A.D. 1724, and became one of the editors of the Wu Ying Tien classics and histories. He was afterwards a Censor, but committed himself by over-boldness of speech and lost office. He then went into retirement, bestowing upon himself the sobriquet of ^ 2|C ^ ^. He was noted as a poet and as a