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and assumed the name of ^ ^ ^. He also called himself ^L i^ "T*' ^^^ reference to the place of his education, and ^ ^ ^ ^; besides which he was further known as ^ ^ Lu Chi (T. ^ ^). Author of the ^ )jS, a famous work on tea, which beverage he declared could be made to perfection only with water from Hupeh.

Lu Yilan-lang |^ JC 19 (T. M ?^)- ^'^' 550-625. A native 1441 of Soochow, and one of the greatest classical scholars of his time. He headed the list of distinguished men summoned between 570 and 580 by Ch*£n Shu-pao. On the fall of the Ch'dn dynasty, he attracted the notice of the Emperor Yang Ti of the Sui dynasty and received the appointment of Imperial Librarian. The usurper Wang Shih-ch'ung wished him to become tutor to his son; but he declined the post, and in 621 entered the service of the Prince of Gh4n, afterwards second Emperor of the T'ang dynasty, and was by him enrolled among the scholars who formed the famous ^ College of Learning. During the reign of the first Emperor of the T^ang dynasty, he distinguished himself by his defence of Confucianism against Buddhism and Taoism, thereby earning high honours and the title of Baron. Author of the ^ ^ ^ ^ 9 ^^ explanation of terms and phrases in the Classics and the Taoist writers. Better known by his style as Lu T6-ming. Iiti Hou g ^ or Lti Shih g ^. Died B.C. 180. The Empress 1442 Lii, whose personal name was ^ ^ 0-hsii, consort of Eao Tsu, first Emperor of the Han dynasty, whence she is sometimes spoken of as ^ j^. Her father, named Lil ;^ ^ Shu-p*ing and often. spoken of as g ^ Lii Kung, was a physiognomist; and he was so struck by the features of the future Emperor (see Liu Pang) that he gave him his daughter to wife. She was endowed with a masculine mind and an iron will, and it was greatly owing to her masterful advice that her husband was enabled to consolidate the