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490 died in office at the ripe age of seTenty-cij^t. Two yean after Ui burial the Chin* Tartars broke open his graTe, and foood that i lifelike expression still hovered aronnd his featnrea. They reTerenUy closed his coffin again and departed, saying, ^^Tmly this was i wonderful man!**

Liu Ao ^ ^. B.C. 46-5. Son of Liu Shih, whom he auoeeedad in B.C. 32 as tenth sovereign of the Han dynasty. He was grave and dignified in manner, well versed in literature ancient and modern, and ready to listen to the adrioe of his Ministers, but over-fond of wine and women. Canonised as '^ j^ ^ ^j^.

UaCh'an ^ff (T. ^^). A.D. 207-267. Son of the famous Liu Pei by his wife -U^ ^ >\ ^® \jbAj Kan. As a child he was called ^ £^ 0-tou, in consequence of a dream by his mother during pregnancy, in which she &ncied that she swallowed the constellation known as the Northern Bushel. In the memorable rout after the battle of ^ j^ Ch'ang-p*o, A.D. 208, when Lis Pei fled before the victorious troopa of Ts^ao Ts'ao, O-tou was saved from falling into the hands of the euemy by the devotion of the trusty Chao Yfln, who carried him safely from the field of battle. In A.D. 223 he succeeded to the throne of his father, but proved himself to be a weak-kneed ruler, incapable of taking any serioos part in the government, and given over to sensual indulgence. After the death of Chu-ko Liang, all power fell into the hands of the palace eunuchs, and things went gradually from bad to wone until the successive victories of T^ng Ai sealed the fiate of the kingdom. When the victor was at his gates, Liu Gh^an arrayed himself in bonds, and placing himself in his chariot beside an empty coffin, pitifully surrendered. T^ng Ai loosed his bonds, burnt the coffin, and sent him prisoner to Lo-yang, where he lived quietly with the title of Duke until his death. Known in history