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his retirement in 1749 he was tutor to the Imperial Princee. During the rest of his long life he enjoyed a literary friendship with Ch^en Lungi his own poems and his collection of the poetry of ihis dynasty, the H ^ ^ ' being honoured with Imperial prefaces. His poems were eagerly bought by foreign nations, and a Japanese high ofiBcial, Takauori, in vain tried to become his pupil. He was included in the Teraple of Worthies until 1778, when he was conyicted of being the author of some poems in a seditious collection by a chU jen. Canonised as ^ j^. See Cfiang Chao.

Shen Tsung. See (Sung) Chao Hsii; (Ming) Chu I-ohtLn. Shen T'o. See Shu Yii.

1701 Shen-f U P*an ^ ^ !l# (T. -^^ t| ). 2nd cent. A.D. A nati? e of ^^ ^ Wai-huang in Honan, whose father died when he was nine years old. From that date he tasted neither wine nor meat for over ten years, always passing three whole days without any food at every anniversary of his father's death. He received offers of official employment from Ts^ai Yung, but preferred to earn his own living as a worker in lacquer, devoting all his spare time to the study of the Canon and of astronomy. He escaped the political dangers of his day by fleeing to the mountains, where he lived for a time in a hollowed-out pine-tree, subsequently dying in his home at the age of 74.

1702 Shen Yo yjfc ^ (T. ^ ^). A.D. 441-513. A native of Wu- k*ang in Chehkiang. He was the sou of the Governor of )f|| ^ Huai-nau, whose execution in A.D. 453 caused him to go for a time into hiding. Poor and studious, he is said to have spent the night in repeating what he had learnt by day, as his mother, anxious on account of his health, limited his supply of oil and fuel. In the early years of the Ch4 dynasty he entered upon an official career under the patronage of the Heir Apparent, who afterwards reigned as Ming Ti, and by A.D. 494 he had risen to be a Governor.