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536 was simple and unostentatious, even going so £ar as to make visits of ceremony on foot, carrying his own cards. He became Assistant Grand Secretary in 1865. Canonised as 文忠.

  Lo Tsê-nan 羅澤南 (T. 仲嶽. H. 羅山). A.D. 1807-1856. Of extremely poor family, he remained a mere student until the breaking out of the Tai-p'ing rebellion when he was ordered to enrol the local Hunanese, thus forming the nucleus of the force famous later on as the Braves of Hunan. In 1853 he was sent by Tsêng Kuo-fan to Kiangsi. Recalled to Hunan, he subsequently distinguished himself at the taking of Wu-ch'ang and in driving the rebels down to Kiukiang. In 1855 he was fighting in Kiangsi; but on Wu-ch'ang falling again into the hands of the rebels, he hastened to lay siege to it in conjunction with Hu Lin-yi, and was killed by a shot when repelling a sortie. Canonised ms 忠節.

  Lo Ts'ung-yen 羅從彥 (T. 仲素). A.D. 1072—1135. A native of Fuhkien, who led a studious but aimless life until he was forty years of age, when he became a disciple of Yang Shih. In 1132 he received the honorary degree of chü jen and a post as Assistant Magistrate. He was the author of the 聖宋遵堯錄, a work designed to show that the disasters of the Sung dynasty were due to the abandonment by the Emperor Shên Tsung and his successors of the principles of their ancestors. In 1614 he was admitted to the Confucian Temple.

  Lo Yin 羅隱 (T. 昭諫)- A.D. 833—909. A native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Chehkiang, who distinguished himself in early youth by his beautiful poems and was patronised by the Minister 鄭畋 Chêng Tien. He was however very ugly; and a daughter of Chêng Tien, who had previously been fascinated by his verses, when once she had seen the author would never look at them again. He rose to high office under Ch'ien Liu, and his works were published with the title of 江南甲乙集. On one occasion he wrote a