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480 yang-sha with the mainland, he deprived the pirates of a faTonrite hannt. In 1658 he repelled an attack by Eozingai and in the following year utterly routed his expedition up the Yang-tsse at Chiang-ning in Eiangsn. Canonised as ^ ^.

Liang Hung ^j^ (T. i^^). 1st cent. A.D. A natiye of P4ng-ling in Shensi, and a poor scholar of the Later Han dynasty, who supported himself by keeping pigs. Having accidentally set fire to a neighbour's house he at once came forward as the delinquent, and handed over his pigs in part payment for the damage done, working hard until the balance was also paid off. This made his name for him, and many well-to-do persons wished to have such a model man for a son-in-law. He refused all these offers; but when he found a lady who was fsA and ngly and sallow, and who had remained unmarried until the age of thirty because she wanted "a husband like Liang Hung,** he at once took her as his wife. This lady possessed great strength, and could lift a heavy stone mortar for pounding rice. She and Liang Hung passed their days in tilling and spinning, and their evenings in reciting poetry and playing on the lute. At meals she waited upon him; and not venturing to let her eyes rest too familiarly upon him, she used to carry in his rice-bowl on a level with her eyebrows. After a time he set out to travel, and while passing through the capital composed a poem named j£ (^ ^, which so enraged the Emperor Su Tsung, A.D. 76—89, that orders were given to arrest him. Chan^i^ his name to jg ^ f@ Yiin.ch*i Yao (T. ^jft) h« ^^ ^* his wife to Shantung, and there found a refuge in the house of a wealthy man where he died.

Liang Kuo-chlh ^ g yi^ (T. pj^ ^ . H. ^ ^ and g 1). A.D. 1723-1787. A native of Kuei-chi in Chehkiang, who graduated as first chin ahih in 1748 and served with distinction in the provinces until in 1773 he was called to the Grand Council.