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danger; and when it was impossible, because of a contrary wind, to launch fire-ships againt the enemy's fleet, he wayed a white feather and changed the direction of the wind, at the same time enabling the Imperial troops to walk upon the surfistce of the water. Lu Fa-yen ^ i£ ^ (T. ^ ^ ). 6th cent. A.D. Author of 1410 the "^ ^, a phonetic dictionary arranged under 206 finals ac- cording to the four tones, in which work he was assisted by Ten Chih-t^ui and others.

Lu Pang Ji[ ^ (T. ^ ^ ). Died A.D.? 50. A native of H ;JC 1*11 San-shui in Shensi, who took advantage of the ill-feeling against Wang Mang the Usurper to pretend to be a great grandson of the Emperor Wu Ti, and subsequently raised some troops and served under Ldu HsUan. Upon the fall of the latter, the more turbulent spirits of his native place determined that the succession should go to him; and an alliance was formed with the E[han of the Hsiung-nu, who caused him to be proclaimed Emperor. But after a life of fighting and intrigue, during which he once (in A.D. 40) actually resumed his allegiance and presented himself at Court, he finally fled to the Hsiung-nu and spent in exile the ten years which preceded his death. Lu Hsi J^ :[j| (T. -^ ^). 9th cent. A.D. A native of Honan-, 1*12

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who was hideously ugly, and could not speak plain. He graduated however as chin shihj and had risen by 879 to be Minister of State and President of the Board of Punishments. He was a ^Tot6g6 of the eunuch T'ien Tzti-ling, and later on became mixed up in political intrigues and was forced to take poison.

Lu Hsiu-ftl ^ ^ ^ (T. ^ flf ). A.D. 1236-1279. A native 1*13 ^^ 31 Iffi Yen-ch*6ng in Eiangsu. He graduated as chin $hih in 1260, and after some years' service as secretary to General ^ ^ ^ Li T4ng-chih, he entered in 1275 upon an official career. Rising rapidly to be a Minister of State, he shared in the southward