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years he became an ardent Baddhist, and was popularly known as

M^ic^' Author of 7C 19 ^ E ^ :^ Notices of Eminent Statesmen of the TOan Dynasty^ and of a small treatise on states- manship, entitled '/j^ |U^ ^ ^.

Sn T'ing f|^g| (T. ^ ^). A.I>. 669-726. Son of a statesman 1789 who had been ennobled as Duke of ^ Hsti. Gradaating as chin shxh before he was 20, in 710 he came into his father's title and rose to be Minister of State. In concert with Song Ching he administered the government from 716 to 720, when their own extreme severity, coupled with eunuch intrigues, brought about their dismissal. Su T*ing became President of the Board of Rites, and went to Ssiich'uan as Commissioner, where he succeeded in overawing the Turfian and wild tribes of the south. He subsequently accompanied the Emperor to Mt. T'ai, for the performance of the great sacrifices to Heaven and Earth. His literary fame rivalled that of Chang Ttleh, and the two were spoken of as ^^]^

■^ ^ the mighty pens of Yen and HsQ, Chang Ttleh having been ennobled as Duke of Yen. Canonised as ^ ^.

Sn Tsung. See Li T*ing.

Sn Wei fj^g^ (T. % ^Y A.D. 542-629. Son of Su Ch*o. 1790 He was very precocious, and at 5 years of age mourned for his father liker a grown man. He attracted the notice of Yii-wSn Hn, who gave him his daughter to wife; but fearing implication in political troubles, he retired to the hills, nominally to study. He served uuder the Emperor Hstian^ Ti of the N. Chou dynasty, but it was under the first Emperor of the Sui dynasty that he rose to high ofiSce and gained a great reputation by the wisdom of his counsels. In 607, being Senior Grand Chamberlain, he protested against the reckless expenditure of Yang Euang, and nine years later he was degraded for revealing the truth as to the state of

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the country and denouncing the folly of a war with Korea. He