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relieTed, expeditions to foreign conntries stopped, and charges on the acquisition of precions stones in Yflnnan and Annam abolished. It was owing to his wise counsels that the Emperor Hs&tn Tsung oroshed his uncle Chu S[ao«hsfl by promptly heading an army against him. Canonised as J^ j||.

Hsiang ^. 23rd cent B.G. Son, by his second wife, of the fiiiher of the Emperor Shun.

Hsiang m or Shih Hsiang ^ |||. 6th ceni B.C. The music- master who gate instruction to Confucius.

Hsiang An-shih ^ ^ 1U: (T. ^ ^). Died A.D. 1208. A nati?e of C3iiang-ling, who attracted the notice of Chu Hsi and rose to high office under the Emp^t>r Ning !bang of the Sui^ dynasty. Author of the ^ $C ^ » ^ treatise on the Canon of Changes^ and of many other works known to scholars.

Hsiang Chang [^ ^ (T. -^^). 1st crat. RC. and A.D. A learned native of ^ ^ Ghao-ko in Honan, who though ?«y poor declined to take office and remained at home studying tiie Canon of Changes ^ subsisting upon the charity of fitiends. He said tiiat poyerty was obviously pr^SsraUe to wealth, and a humble station to an exalted one; but he admitted that he couM not aay if death would be preferable to life. At length, about A.D. 40, when all his children were grown up and married, he retired with a friend to the mountains and was never heard of again.

Hsiang Chi ^ j)§ (T. ^). B.a 288—202. A nephew ot Hsiang Liang, whose fortunes he followed in the revolt of the latter against the Ch4n dynasty and the resuscitation of the kingdom of CSiSi under King ^ Huai. He was seven feet in height, and endowed with great strength botii of body and mind. Appointed to serve as second under Sung I in the northern anny of Ch^u, while his great rival Liu Pang recdved command of the southern army, he proceeded to the relief of Chfl-lu, en routs for Hsien-yang, the