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 324 children. He was medical attendant in ordinary to the great Ta'ao Ts'ao; and when the fiunons commander became a martyr to headaches, oflPered to open his sknll under an anaesthetic, an offer which was somewhat mdely declined. Belief howe?er was obtained by the use of the needle. To get home to his family, he pretended that his wife was ill; and then, as he made constant excoses instead of coming back, Ts'ao Ts'ao sent to fetch him. He was thrown into prison and died there. Sometimes spoken of as ^ Hna Fn.

Huai I. Died A.D. 694. The priest-&yonrite of the Empress Wu Hon of the T'ang dynasty. In 686, on assuming snpreme power, she made him Director of the White Horse Temple, and the most powerful courtiers were forced to yield precedence to him. Tiring of his unrestrained wickedness, she sent him in 689 to chastise the Turkic tribes. In 694, jealous of a new favourite, he tried to set fire to the palace and was impertinent when rebuked by the Empress, for which she caused him to be beaten to death.

Huai Nan Li Wang 2nd cent. B.C. A brother of the Emperor W^n Ti of the Han dynasty. For conspiracy and rebellion he was banished to the modern Sstlch'uan, where he refused all food and died of hunger.

Huai Nan Tzŭ. See Liu An.

Huai Su 懷素. A Buddhist priest of the 7th cent. A.D., who was a famous writer of the "grass character." He was too poor to buy paper, and in its stead he used the leaves of plantains, which he cultivated in such large numbers that he called the place 綠天 Green Sky. The poet Li T'ai-po was a great admirer of his calligraphy.

Huai Ti. See Ssŭ-ma Chih.

Huai-yang Wang. See Liu Hsüan.