Page:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.djvu/342

A Chinese Biographical DicHonary 323

Hua Hsin  (T. ). Died A.D. 231. A native of  ^ j^ £ao-t'aDg in Anhni, who graduated as haiao lien and rose » the highest offices of State under the last Emperor of the Han naaakj and the first two Emperors of the Wei dynasty. On one casion he was fleeing for his life from rebels, in company with ^ang Lang, when an old man asked to be allowed to join them. ua Hsin objected, but Wang Lang pleaded for the old man and » was taken into the boat. By and by, being pressed hard by eir pursuers, Wang Lang repented of his generosity, and ^gested that the old man should be put ashore. But Hua Hsin id, *^No! Once we have associated him in our fortunes, we Duct abandon him because we are in trouble." Canonised as ||J|[. fe Kuan Ning.

Hua-jui Fu-jen a name given to the Lady ? n, concubine of M^ng Chiang, the last ruler of the Later Shu iate, A.D. 935—964. When this lady passed into the possession ' the founder of the Sung dynasty, she took with her a portrait ' her former lord which she pretended was the representation of a Tine being, named Chang Hsien, worshipped by women desirous - ofibpring.

Hua T'o (T. ) Died A.D. 220. A famous physician id surgeon who flourished towards the close of the 2nd cent. .D. He was skilled in the use of acupuncture and cautery, but d not use these recklessly. His needles went straight to the part Fected, and he never applied the moxa more than seyen or eight mes. LT a disease seemed beyond the reach of needles and cautery, 3 operated, giving his patients a dose of hashish which rendered lem unconscious. He used neither scales nor measures, administering is drugs by instinct. On one occasion he diagnosed from the pulse lone a case of decayed bowels, which he cured by operation. Among ther things, he is said bo have been able to foretell the sex of