Page:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.djvu/709

690

title of "Immortals/* After a long stmg^e, with aliemating fi>rtoi he found himself without resources and oommitted suicide drowning himself in the Bea. 1806 Sun Fang %^ (T. ^^)^ 12th cent. A.D. An Impei physician, who called himself PIQ "^ JS it ^^ Hermit of F( Stops. He explained this to mean that when he had taken his of plain food, he stopped; when he had put on enongh pi clothes to keep himself warm, he stopped; when he had realised fair proportion of his wishes, he stopped; and that after growi old, free from coTetonsness or enTy, he would also be prepai to stop. 1806 Sun Pu-t*ing ^ ff jg (T. ^j^ ||). A.D. 1593-1643. Gr« i ating as chin ahih in 1619, he rose in 1635 to be Oovernor

1 Shensi, and by active measures stamped out the existing m

movement. Affcer an unsatisflEtctory campaign in Honan against t

■

rebels there, he became Viceroy of Shantung and a part of Chil The fall of Chi-nan Fu in 1689 was made a pretext for imprisonii him; however in 1642 he was appointed Vice President of t Board of War and hastened with the garrison of Peking to relie E'ai-feng Fu, long besieged by Li Tzti-ch'6ng. He was then movi to Shensi as Viceroy, and in spite of his representation. that i the tried soldiers were dead and the new recruits not yet serviceabi he was obliged to advance against Li who soon scattered his ra levies. With great difficulty he raised fresh forces and again advance At first successful, he reached the ^ Chia District only to fii that heavy raius had made it impossible for supplies to come forwar He therefore fell back with two divisions, pursued by the rebel The inexperienced artillerymen deserted their guns and a roi ensued, 40,000 men beiug lost. Li followed up his advantage, ai

in November the y^ T^ung Pass was forced and Sun was kille<

»

fighting to the last.

i