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Rh services. His master described him as **the only General," without pride or conceit, entirely free from sensuality or avarice. He was ennobled as Duke, receiving his patent engraved upon an iron slab, and posthumously as Prince. Canonised as ^ ^^ and admitted to the Imperial Temple. His image stood first of the twenty-one placed in 1869 in the Temple of Men of Merit.

Hsü Ta-chêng  (T. ). Uth cent. A.D. A native of g|^ ^ Ou-ning in Fuhkien, who distinguished himself as a poet and was on terms of friendship with Su Shih. He buUt himself a *^Etetreat" upon the Northern Mountain in Euangsi, whence he came to be known as 4[j [14 $ it •

Hsü Ta-ch'un  (T. ^ ]§ ). 18th cent. A.D. A native of ^ ^ Wu-chiang near Soochow, distinguished as a ischolar and a doctor. He wrote a commentary on the Too Ti Ching^ and his collected medical works are known under the title of ^ ^

Hsü Tzŭ-p'ing. A celebrated professor of the science of astrology, who flourished under the Sung dynasty. His method of divination is still called by his name.

Hsü Wên-ching  (T. 'gl ll| ). A native of Anhui, who graduated as chu jen in 1724 and distinguished himself as a writer on the Canon of Changes, the Tribute of Ftl, and the Bamboo Books. He was over ninety years of age at his death.

Hsü Yu. One of the Four Philosophers of the ^ ^ ||^ Miao-ku-shS mountaiui the others being ^ ^ Nieh Chileh, 3E ^ Wang Ni, and ^ IjJc P'i I- The Emperor Yao is said to have offered him the throne, which only caused him to hurry off to wash his ears and cleanse them from such unwarrantable defilement. He used to drink from the brook in the hollow of his hand; and when some charitable person gave him a gourd, he hung it up on a tree near his hut. But the wind whistling through the