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ihe accession of the Emperor Ling Ti in 168 9 when he ww re-appointed to office by Ton Wn. He fell with his patron and ww ordered into banishment, bnt refused to go and ewen memorialised the Throne in &?onr of Ton Wa. The Emperor was exceedingly angry and gave orders for his arrest, whereupon he committed snicida.

1463 Lung fg. One of the Ministers of the Emperor Shun, B.C. 2555. It was his duty to act as the mouthpiece of the soToreign to the people.

1464 Lung Mu m -f^. 3rd cent. B.C. An old woman, who found on the banks of the West Bi?er in Kuangtung an ^g, from which a dragon was hatched. The creature remained her faithful attehdant through life, and at death she was deified as Goddess of Sailors m that locality.

1465 Lung-yang Chtln ft @| ^. The title given to an unworthy minion of the Prince of Wei, 4th cent. B.C., and now applied to a catamite.

1466 Lung Yti f^ 3£. 6th cent. B.C. Wife of Hsiao Shih (q.v.), and daughter of Duke Mu of Ch4n.

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1467 Ma-oh'i ,% ^. A.D. 1651-1739. Son of Mi-ssti-han. He rose through service in the capital to be Governor of Shansi in 1685. In 1688 he was consulted as to the first treaty with Russia, and urged that it should be in Chinese as well as in Mauchu. He was employed on special missions until 1699, when he became a Grand Secretary. In 1709 he was sentenced to death for taking the lead in recommending E^ang Hsi*s eighth son as his successor; but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment, from which he was fireed on the arrival of Russian traders in January 1710, and in I7I6 he again became a Grand Secretary. Canonised as ^ i^, and in 1750 admitted into the Temple of Worthies.