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crook the hinges of his back for fi?e pecks of rice a day," such being the regalation pay of a magistrate. He then retired into private life and occupied himself with poetry, music, and the culture of flowers, especially chrysanthemums which are inseparably associated with his name. In the latter pursuit he was seconded by his wife, who worked in the back garden while he worked in the front, near five willow-trees from which he took one of his fancy names above. His poem on retirement, entitled **Home Again,** is considered one of the masterpieces of the language. His personal name was originallj m^ 19 Yaan-ming; he changed it to Gh4en upon the accession of the Liu Sung dynasty in A.D. 420.

1893 T*ao Ching-chieh j^l^fjl- 2nd cent. A.D. One of the 18 members of the White Lily Society. See lAu I^min.

1894 T'aoChu ^^t^ (T. .^^. H. f|tt)- ^^^- 1777-1889. Graduated in 1802 and rose in 1823 to be GoTernor of ADbui, where he improved the waterways and established granaries. lo 1825 he was transferred to Kiangsu, and there succeeded in carrying through the sea-transport of tribute-rice and placing it upon an economical basis. In 1828 he dredged the Woosuug Bar. In 1830, as Viceroy at Nanking, he reformed the salt administration, enabhog government salt to compete with the unlicensed article. He wrote various works, among others an account of his wanderings in SstLch'uan, where he was Examiner in 1810, under the title of -^ ^ §E • Canonised as ^ ^.

1895 T^ao Han [^ ^* A native of Kiaugsi, distinguished aa a poet under the T*ang dynasty. Between A.D. 713 and 742 he was a second-class secretary in the Board of Rites, but gave up his post to devote himself exclusively to his aged- mother. He was an ardent votary of the cult of Tao.

1896 T*ao Hung-ching ^^^ (T. ^Vf^). A.D. 451 - 536. A native of J^^ |^ Mo-Iing in Kiangsu. Just before his birth his