Page:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.djvu/643

624

through in 1688, heard of his career and gave him Tb. SOO '^to keep him honest." In 1691 he was a Sapervising Censor, and denounced abuses right and left, which led to his banishment for three years. He subsequently rose to be Crovernor of Kaangtnng. His hot temper often got him into trouble, but K^ang Hsi steadily befriended him as «n honest man. His fame equalled that of Kno Hsiu, with whom his name was often coupled by the people, and after death he was worshipped in Canton.

P'eng Shao-Sheng ^^^ (T. yb ^ )• Graduated in A.D. 1769. An earnest student, he exhibited in his writings, especially in his work on the Crreat Learning, strong leanings towards the heresies of Buddhism. His — ' f^ JS ^ is a literary miscellany confined entirely to Buddhist topics.

Feng Shih ^0 (T. ^^). A.D. 1416-1475. A native of ^ ^ An-fu in Eiangsi, he graduated as first chin shih in 1448 and was at once employed in the Grand Secretariat; but by insisting on retiring to mourn for his stepmother, he offended the Emperor Ching Ti and was kept during his reign in the Han-lin College. In 1465 he became President of the Board of War. For thirty years he struggled, not wholly without success, to iroproTe the government, his probity, industry, and earnestness compelling the lazy Emperor*s admiration. But he was unable, owing to ill-health, to keep Wan An from power, or to check the rising influence of the eunuchs. Canonised as ^ ^.

P^eng Tsu ^ JD§.. A great grandson of the legendary Emperor Chuan Hail, B.C. 2514. His real name was ^ ^ Oh^ien K6ng,but he is known as above from the fief of P^Sng, bestowed on him by the Emperor Yao. In B.C. 1123 he was already 767 years old, and he is said to have been over 800 when he disappeared into the west. He had ninety wives, and left two sons |^ Wu and ^ I, who gave their names to the famous Wu-i (Bohea) range in Fohkien.