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gave the neighbour a thrashing. This led to a charge of assault, but when the constables came to arrest him, tears were seen trickling down the face of the figure. Ting's filial piety being thus recognised by the gods, he was not only acquitted, bat the Emperor even sent an order for his portrait.

1938 Ting Ling-wei T ^ J^ • 2nd cent. A.D. A natiye of Liao- tung, who studied the black art on the ^ ^ Ling-hsd mountain. At the expiration of a thousand years he changed himself into a crane and flew home again, to find, as he mournfully expressed it in verse,

City and suburb as of old, But hearts that loved us long since cold.

1939 Ting Pao-chen T |? ti • Died A.D. 1886. A native of ^ jg P4ng-yiian in Eueichou, who graduated as chin shih in 1853, and being well-to-do devoted several years to study. On the outbreak of rebellion in his native province in 1856 he raised a force of volunteers, but was forced for want of funds to disband them. He then offered his services to the Imperialist commanders in Hunan , and was made Prefect of Yo-chou, which he bravely defended against the T*ai-p*ing8. The city was ultimately taken, and he narrowly escaped denunciation and death. At the end of 1862, after serving against the Nien fei, he became Acting Judge of Shantung, in which province he remained for nearly a quarter of a century, rising to be Governor in 1867. He successfully protected the French missionaries at the dangerous crisis in 1870, sending his eldest son and fifty soldiers to live with Bishop Cozi. He repaired the dyke« of the Yellow River well and economically, and desired to open op the mineral resources of Shantung. Transferred as Viceroy to Sstlch*uan in 1881, he governed wisely and left behind him an honourable name. Included in the Temple of Worthies.

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