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338 fought at ^ |{^ Wu-yilan in Anhui he was defeated and taken prisoner, and subsequently beheaded at Nanking. A diligent student of the Canon of Changes, he was the author of the ^ ^ IP , the ^SM ^« and the isi^^. Id 1825 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

Huang Tao P'o A woman who is said to have migrated about the beginning of the 14th cent. A.D. from Yai- chou in Hainan to the province of Eiangnan, and to have taught the people the art of spinning and weaving cotton, introduced from Turkestan.

Huang Ti 黃帝. The Yellow Emperor, one of the most famous of China's legendary rulers. He is said to have reigned B.C. 2698— 2598, and to have been miraculously conceived by his mother 附寶 Fu Pao, who gave birth to him on the banks of the river 姬 Chi, from which he took his surname. His personal name was 有熊 Yu-hsiung, taken from that of his hereditary Principality; and also 軒轅 Hsien-yüan, said by some to be the name of a village near which he dwelt, by others to refer to wheeled vehicles of which he was the inventor, as well as of armour, ships, pottery, and other useful appliances. The close of his long reign was made glorious by the appearance of the phoenix and the mysterious animal known as the ch'i lin (see K'ung Ch'iu), in token of his wise and humane administration. He died at the age of 111 years.

Huang Ting (T. :^ "j^, H. ^^). A.D. 1660-1730. A great traveller, famous for his wanderings all over the empire and even into Mongolia and Burmah. He was a very clever landscape painter, and recorded his impressions of travel in pictorial form.

Huang T'ing-chien 黃庭堅 (T. 魯直). A.D. 1050—1110. A native of 分甯 Fên-ning in Kiangsi, who graduated as chin shih and entered the public service, rising to high office in the Imperial Academy and Grand Secretariat. When his mother was