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of p^ ^ Nei-huang in Honan who rose to be secretary in tiie Board of Rites, and also distinguished himself as a poet. See

Wan Erh.

1690 ShSn I-kuan ^^ — ;P; (T. M 1^)- ^^ ^-^^ ^616. A

native of Ningpo, who graduated in 1568 and rose by 1504 to be a Grand Secretary, when he gained great popularity by preyentiDg trade relations with Japan. He could not check the prevailing misgovernment. Indeed it was only in 1602 that the Emperor ShSn Tsung, being seriously ill, accorded him an audience; and on the next day Shdn allowed the eunuch emissaries of the con- valescent monarch to take from him by force a Decree abolishing the oppressive taxes on mines, releasing State prisoners, and an- nouncing general reforms. After a stormy career he was denounced for peculation, and retired in disgust. Canonised as ^ ^^.

1691 Sh§n Eua '{X^ ^^' ^4*)- ^-^* 1030-1093. A native of Ch4en-t^ang in Chehkiang, who graduated as chin shih and rose to be Chancellor of the Hau-lin College, after which he was employed against the Eitan Tartars. For the disastrous defeat by the Hsia State, in which 60^000 Chinese soldiers perished, he was sent into banishment in Shensi. He called himself ^ j^ ^ the Old Man of the Dream-Brook, after a stream in the ^ ^ Tan-yang District thus named by himself from the exact correspondence of its scenery with that of a stream once seen by him in a dream. The works by which he is best known are the ^ ^ ^ ^ , a collection of miscellanea, and the ^ j^ ^ ^, in which he cpnsoles himself for the loss of office by descanting upon the joys of a country life. He also collaborated with Su Tuug-p^o in the . production of a

medical work known as ^^ j^ ^ ^.

16^2 Shdn Kiiiig ^ ^ or Shen F*ei ^ ^ or Shen Shang

^ j^. 2nd and 3rd cent. B.C. A scholar of the Lu State, who had been very intimate in his youth with Prince jQ Ttian of the