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1419 Lu K'ai 陸凱 (T. :^ ^ ). Died A.D. 504. A precocious youth, who took his first degree at 15, and entered the public serrice. He rapidly rose to high office; bat his elder brother Lu 琇 Hsiu was accused of complicity in the treasonable designs of the Prince of Hsien-yang, and died in prison. Lu E'ai was himself arrested; he escaped howe?er through a general pardon. He was so affected by his brother's death that he wept without ceasing until he nearly lost his sight. Canonised as

1420 Lu Kuei-meng ^ H ^ (T. @ H). 9th cent A.D. A poet of the T^ang dynasty, who used to practise abstinence from food and would not eat meat or drink wine which had been bought in the market. Neither would he take part in any of the great an- nual festivals, nor have anything to do with ceremonies of mourning or burial. His chief delight was to roam about in a small boat, with only a few books, his fishing-tackle, and a richaud for making tea. He was called the ^ |^ -^, and it is also said that the expression JX. )f^ ^ \, "wanderer among rivers and lakes** was first applied to him.

1421 Lu K*un J^ilfl (T. 1^;^. H. J§[ Uj). A.D. 1772-1835. A native of |^ Cho-chou in Chihli, who graduated as chin ahih ia 1799 and rose by service in Peking and the provinces to be Gh>yernor of Shensi. He was employed in 1826 to manage the supplies for the^ army operating against Jehangir in Turkestan, and contrived to keep the expenses within Tls. 11,000,000. As Viceroy of Hn-Enang in 1882 he suppressed a great rising of the Hunan aborigines, in spite of a defective commissariat and in spite of aid received by the rebels from the Euangtung aborigines. For this he was ennobled, and on the arrest of ^ ^ ^ Li Hung-pin, Viceroy at Canton, for failure to keep down piracy, he was sent to replace him. He was there in 1834, when the English ships were fired upon by the forts at Bocca Tigris and anchored in consequence at Whampoa;