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Rh Uxmg Fin |i j($. 8rd cent. B.C. A Minister of the Wei State,  rho perceiyed the danger to be apprehended from the Tictory of the /h^ins over the Chaos, and warned his prince not to be like the vraQow which chirps unconcernedly round its nest when fire has Iready seized upon the building to which the nest is attached.

C'ong Po-hsia ^f|^ ^. Son of E'ung Fang-shu, and grand- ither of Confucius. EQs tablet stands in the Confucian Temple, .mong ancestors glorified as sages.

Cning Shn-liang Ho ^:^^1j^' Died B.C. 548. Son of ['nng Po-hsia, and father of Confucius. He was Chief Magistrate •f pin Tsou in modern Shantung, and was remarkable for his ligantic stature and great strength. His wife bore him nine daughters 168 ICung Ming-pH); but when at the age of serenty he married aecond time, choosing ^ ^ Chtog Tsai, the youngest of the iiree daughters of a neighbour named ||^ Yen, the union was leased with a male child, known to posterity as Confucius. He iznself died when the boy was only three years old. His tablet 'Ands in the Confucian Temple, among ancestors glorified as sages.

Z'xmg Tao-fa ^ ji; |f (T. |g # ). Died A. D. 1088. A 90cendant of Confucius in the 45th degree. His personal name as originally ^ ^ Yen Lu. Noted as a boy for his gravity f demeanour, he graduated as chin shih and was appointed to ^^ ring-chou in Ytlnnan. While there, a divine snake appeared at ae of the temples, and all the officials went to worship it (see d Hung^chang), K^ung however refused thus to abase himself; and sizing his official tablet, crushed the reptile's head at a blow. He 'as obliged to resign in consequence, but soon rose through various ffices to be a Censor and Minister of State. In 1081 he was sent 8 envoy to the Eitans, who received him at a grand banquet with auch honour. But at a theatrical entertainment which followed, a >iece was played in which his sacred ancestor, Confucius, was