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Rh of the Censorate he insisted that the period of mourning should be oniform for all officers, Bannermen and Peking officials having hitherto got off with short periods. In 1688 his brother Hsu Ch4en- hsQeh was called from the provinces to be President of the Board of Punishments, and this led to his fall in 1689; for Hstl Gh^en- hsQeh instigated the attack which drove from office the Manchu Minister 1^ J^ Ming-chU| whose partisans soon succeeded in forcing HsQ THan-wfin to retire. One great reform he effected was to require an officially sealed bill of sale for every serf held by a Manchu, as hitherto many Chinese had been kidnapped and enslaved for life.

Hsüan Nü. A daughter of God, sent down to earth to 800 aid the Yellow Emperor against Ch*ih Yu.

Hsüan Ti. See (Han) Liu Hsün; (Ch'dn) Ch'ên Hsü; (N. Chou) Yü Wên-yung.

Hsüan Tsang  or Yüan Tsang. A.D. 602- 664. The religious designation of a man whose original name was ^ ^ Gh'dn I. A native of Honan, who became a Buddhist priest when only 20 years of age and in the year 629 set out for ladia, with a view to visit its holy places and to bring back copies of the sacred books of Buddhism. In 645 he returned, and was received with public honours, the Emperor T'ai Tsung conferring upon him the honorary epithet of ^ |^ Sau Tsang. He had with him six hundred and fifty-seven Buddhist books, besides many imi^es and pictures, and one hundred and fifty relics. He spent the rest of his life in translating these books, with the help of several learned monks appointed by the Emperor. The manuscript of his ^ ^ gQ Record of Western Countries was presented to the Emperor in 646, but the work as it now stands was not completed until 648. Also known as ^ i^ ^ ^ ^ ^ D^^a of the Greater Development, and 7|^ 3C '^ ^ MdkchadSva.