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376 fault. His writings ou the Classics, history, topography, and poetry, are still highly esteemed. To foreigners he is best known as the author of the Q ^ ^9 which contains his notes, chiefly on the Classics and history, gathered during a course of reading which extended over thirty years. He also wrote the § the ^ 2(S: #, the ^ ^, the H ^ jE, and the ^, all works upon the ancient sounds and rhymes. In 1886 it was proposed that he should be included in the Confucian Temple; but the high officials differed on the point, and the suggestion was ultimately negatived. He is usually spoken of as Eu Ten-wu; sometimes as i^ ^«

Ku Fêng-mao  (T. ^ ^). Graduated in 1788, and distinguished himself as a commentator on the Odes.

Ku Jung  (T. ^ ^). A.D. 270-322. Son of an official under the Wu dynasty. He was a clever youth, and at the age of twenty set out with Lu Chi (2) and his brother for Lo- yang, where the handsome appearance of the young men gained them the sobriquet of the ^ "^ Three Beauties. His life was an eventful one. He held a military command under the son of the ill-fated SsH-ma Lun, and after the latter*a death transferred his services to other Princes, always more or less surrounded by an atmosphere of war. The Emperor Yüan Ti of the Eastern Chiu dynasty raised him to high rank, and consulted him on all matters of importance. On one occasion in his earlier life, when dining at a restaurant, he thought he saw the waiter eyeing some dainty dish. Accordingly he gave the man his own share, saying it would be hard to be always a waiter and never know the flavour of the good things one carried about. Later on, when Ssti-ma Lun usurped the throne, this very waiter was the means of saving his life. Canonised as y^.

Ku K'ai-chih (T. ^ J|f ). 4th and 5th cent. A,D.