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Rh received a check from ^ ^ ^ Lin ChU-juiig; but this was not followed up, and by 880 he had captured Oh*ang-an, the fimperor having fled to Hsien-yang. He entered the city in a sedan-chair of yellow gold, and several thousand ladies of the palace received him at the gates and saluted him as Prince. He proclaimed himself Emperor and called his dynasty the ^ ^ Ta cVi^ and is said to have butchered some 80,000 of the inhabitants. In 881 Li E'o-yung was dispatched against him, and succeeded in defeating his troops. By 884 nothing remained to him but flight. He was hotly pursued, and at length he and his brother committed suicide, their heads being afterwards cut off and forwarded to the Emperor.

Huang Chien  (T. H^). lOth cent. A.D. A fellow- townsman of Huang E^ang. At the age of seven he was still unable to speak; but after this his talents rapidly developed, and his compositions attracted the notice of Yang I, who became his patron and introduced him to official life. After serving in the Historiographer's office, he rose to be suh- Prefect of Soochow, where he died.

Huang Chin  (T. ^^). A.D. 1274-1354. A native of I-wu in Chehkiang, who graduated as chin ahih in 1315 and served in the provinces and in the Han-lin College, rising to be an Expositor and Reader to the Emperor. He was a most pure and upright official. Author of the Q ^ ^ ^ §^, a series of critiques on literature; of a topography of his native place; and of a collection of miscellanies entitled Q ^ ^ ^. He was posthumously ennobled, and canonised as ^|^*

Huang Ch'u-p'ing. 4th cent. A.D. A native of ^ Tan-ch4, who at fifteen years of age was set to tend sheep. A Taoist priest, noticing his reverential demeanour, carried him off to the Ghin-hua mountain where he lived for over forty years