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Rh From this time he was one of the counsellors of the Emperor Ch4en Lung, and in 1785 became a Grand Secretary. Author of a collection of essays entitled l^^ >@^ ^ ^ ^ * ^^i^on^^ ^

Liang Shih-oheng ^ ^ jE (T. # # . H. ^ ;|5Jc ). A.D. 1707-1768. A distinguished official of the reign of Gh'ien Lung, who was chiefly employed in examination Work. In 1762 he drew up, by Imperial command, a revised and enlarged account of the Western Lake at Hangchow. He became a Grand Secretary in the year of his death. Canonised as ^^- See Chang Chao.

Liang Sung ^ ^ (T. ^Vjji). Died A.D. 83. A distinguished scholar of the Han dynasty, who was a public teacher before he was twenty. He got into trouble in consequence of the political pasquinades issued by his brother Liang ;)^ Sung, and was banished. In 76 he was allowed to return to his home, where he shut himself up with his books, refusing many offers of official posts. The Emperor Chang Ti took two of his daughters as concubines, and the son of the younger was brought up by the Empress Ton as her own, i.e. as Heir Apparent. Upon this, the Liang family indulged their tongues rather too freely; and their words coming to the ears of the Empress, she began to fear for herself. She therefore put to death the two daughters of Liang Sung, causing himself and family to be arrested on a charge of treason and thrown into prison where he died. The matter was kept quite secret until the death of the Empress in 97, when it was brought to the knowledge of the Emperor Ho Ti, who canonised him as ^ ^ . He was the author of the ^ ^ , a work of which Pan Ku said , "Confucius completed the Spring and Autumn, and rebellious Ministers and bad sons were afraid. Liang Sung wrote the CA*i Hstl, and usurpers of rights and idle consumers were put to shame."