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Rh shortly afterwards changed into y^ jfp ^ ^. Great freedom was permitted to him, and the Emperor seemed as if unable to do him too much honoar; the natural consequence being that he became arrogant and was generally disliked. In 1119 the capital was threatened by an inundation, and Lin received orders to check the flow of the water. Accompanied by a troop of followers he proceeded to mount the city wall, but was driven away by a mob of workmen armed with cudgels. The Emperor was very angry at this, though he knew the cause; and later on, when Lin had insulted the Heir Apparent by revising to yield the road to his cort^e, his Majesty was compelled to dismiss him from Court. The worship of 3E ^ K *^ 9 one of the persons in the Taoist Trinity, was instituted by him in 1116 under Imperial Edict.

Lin Pu ;|9|c^ (T. #^). A.D.? 965-1026. A native of Ch^en-t^aug in Chehkiang, who flourished as a poet under the Sung dynasty. He retired from the world, and lived the life of a recluse on a hill near the Western Lake. There he amused himself by growing plum-trees and keeping cranes; never marrying, because, as he said, the former stood him in stead of a wife, the latter of children. He threw away his poems as fast as they were written, declaring that he did not care for fame with his contemporaries, still less with posterity. His friends however managed to preserve some 300 specimens. The Emperor Ch§n Tsung bestowed upon him a pension, and when he died he was buried in a grave he had prepared by the cottage where he had lived for so many years, with a copy of his last poem placed in the coffin beside him. Canonised as ^ft\ f^ ^ ^.

LinTse-hsii # ftlj ^ (T. ycM ^^^ d'^S- H. ]^^ ^ \). A.D. 1785-1850. A native of the ^"j^ Hou-kuan District in Fuhkien, who graduated as chin shih in 1811 and became a Censor. He rose through the usual provincial grades