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Hsieh Ling-yün of Honan, of good family, who distinguished himself through life by the eccentricity of his conduct. In his youth he was an omniforous reader and a promising student; but he would ha?e his clothes cut after the fashions of antiquity, and cTerything else modelled according to old-world designs. In this he soon had a large number of imitators, by whom he was named ^ J^ ^ Happy Hsieh. He roamed far and wide over the country, accompanied by a crowd of followers, crossing mountain ranges and cutting his way through forests. On one occasion, he emerged at ^ j(^ Ldn-hai in Chehkiang, to the great terror of the local magistrate, who mistook him for a rebel leader. He received good appointments under the early Emperors of the Sung dynasty; but his eccentric and irritable disposition was always getting him into trouble, and he was sent in 424 to superintend the '^boring of mountains and dredging of lakes** in far-off Euangtung. There he appears to have mixed with disreputable characters and to have led a disorderly life, on which counts he was ere long arraigned and beheaded. He ranks as a poet of no mean order, though his work is too unconventional for the ordinary critic. He is sometimes spoken of, together with Yen Yen-chih, as j|^ fj^.

Hsieh Mo  (T. ]5^ ]g ). 3rd and 4th cent. A.D. An official who succeeded the virtuous T^ng Yu as Governor of Wu- lising in Chehkiang, and whose rule was characterised by rapacity ^nd corruption. He was popularly known as ^Ij* ^ Hsieh Ling.

Hsieh Shou  (T. i^ ^). 7th cent. A.D. A son of fisieh Tao-h£ng. He fled to the moantains upon the accession of the Emperor Kao Tsu of the T'ang dynasty, but subsequently took office under the new rulers and became a trusted Minister of the