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but there is no occasion to drink with Eang-jnng himself." Liu Kuo-hBuan ^9} H if • 17th cent. A.D. The most able 1327 general of Ch6ng Chin and his successor Ch6ng E'o-shuang. After bravely holding out in Fuhkien until 1680, he took command in the Pescadores, where in June 1683 he was utterly defeated by Shih Lang. He surrendered with Ch6ng E'o-shuang in September 1683, and was enrolled under a Chinese Banner with the simple rank of Marquis in lieu of his illegal title "^ ^ ^. See Yao Ch^i'sMng.

Liu Ling ^9} f^ (T. "fj^ "f^). 3rd cent. A.D. A native of 1328 P'ei in modern Eiangsu, who went up for his degree in 265 but was plucked for an essay extolling the doctrine of Inaction (see Lao TzU), He was one of the seven poets who formed themselves into the famous club, known as the Bamboo Grove (see H$iang Haiu). He was a hard drinker, and declared that to a drunken man "the affairs of this world appear but as so much duckweed . in a river." He wished to be always accompanied by a servant with wine and followed by another with a spade, so that he might be buried where he fell. On one occasion, yielding to the entreaties of his wife, he promised to "swear off," and bade her prepare the usual sacrifices of wine and meat. When all was ready, he prayed, saying, "0 God, who didst give to Liu Ling a reputation through wine, he being able to consume a gallon at a sitting and requiring a quart to sober him again, listen not to the words of his wife, for she speaketh not truth." Thereupon he drank up the sacrificial wine, and was soon as drunk as ever. He is said to have used a carriage drawn by deer.

LiuLun fllj^ (T. -^Jgj. H. ,^^). A.D. 1710-1773.1329 Graduated at the special examination in 1736, and entered the Han-lin College. Attracting the notice of the Emperor, he was frequently employed in the Imperial Library; and being rapidly