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and official of the 6th cent. A.D., sometimes confused with YfLan Eung the physiognomist, whose style was ^p^, the phrase J^ |jj|[ ^ ^ being wrongly applied to fortane-telling. He rose to high office under the first Emperor of the Sai dynasty, and was. pronounced by Sn Wei to be the only Eiangnan man who was at once a scholar and a man of business. He fell into disfavour by opposing an illegal sentence of death imposed for carelesness in preparing the Emperor's medicine, but was afterwards made Governor of Jao-chon in Eiangsi, where he died.

Liu Chun ^ ip (T. #^). A.D. 466-479. Third son of ^iu 1^ Yfl. He succeeded Liu ^ Yt! in 477 as eighth and last Emperor of the Sung dynasty. He was set up by Hsiao Tao-ch'dng, who was obliged to quell a rising against him headed by two of his co-Regents in 477. Hsiao deposed him in 479, and slaying him and all his relatives, founded the Ch4 dynasty. Canonised as

tiuChtln fHi^ (T. >^|^). A.D. 426-464. Third son of Liu I-lung, whom he succeeded in 453 as fourth Emperor of the Liu Sung dynasty. Clever and brave, he was also haughty and overbearing and addicted to drink and pleasure. He wasted vast sums on building palaces, and placed great power in the hands of unworthy favourites. Canonised as jft jjji. '^ ^ 1^« See Liu Shao,

Iiiu Chung-ying ^#i|^ (T. Hf^). Died A.D. 864. An official under the T'ang dynasty. He was the nephew of Liu Eung- ch'flan; and after his father's death he showed to the latter all tbe respect due to a parent, even dismounting from his horse when he met him in the streets. In youth, his mother used to keep him awake at night for purposes of 'study by giving him pills made of bear*s-gall and gentian. Graduating as chin ahih in 820, he rose to be a Censor and Governor of Honan. On his