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314 Hsüan Tsung. See Li Lung-chi.

Hsüan Tsung. See (T'ang) Li Shen; (Chin») Wan-yen HsiLn ; (Ming) Chu Chan-chi.

Hsüan Wên Chün. 4th cent. A.D. The title given to the mother of ^ j^ Wei Ta, President of the Goart of Sacrificial Worship under the Emperor Hsiao Wa Ti of the Chin dynasty. In order to prevent the decadence of classical learning, she opened a school and lectured from behind a red curtain to some hnndred and thirty students.

Hsüan Wu Ti. See YtLan K*o.

Hsüan Ying. 6th cent. A.D. A Buddhist priest, author of the — ' ^ jf^ ^ ^ ' ^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^® sounds and meanings of words in the Buddhist Canon.

Hsün Chü-po. 1st cent. A.D. A native of Hsfl-chou in Honan, who when bandits were threatening the neighbourhood and all the inhabitants fled, refused to leave the bedside of a sick friend who had come to visit him. Touched by his devotion, the bandits spared his life.

Hsün Hsi, (T. ^). 6th cent. B.C. A Minister of the Chin State, under whose leadership the Yil and Euo States were destroyed. When Duke Ling had spent some three years in building a nine-storey belvidere, Hstin Hsi said to him, 'Tour servant can pile twelve wei^cK'i pips one on the other, and then put nine eggs on the top of them." "Very risky!" observed the Duke. "Not nearly so risky," replied Hsiin Hsi, "as your Grace's nine-storey belvidere, which for three years has kept young men from ploughing and young women from spinning." The Duke took the hint, and stopped the work.

Hsün Hsü (T. ^ ^ ). Died A.D. 289. A native of Ying-chou in Anhui, who served as an official under the Wei dynasty and subsequently under the Emperor Wu Ti of the Chin