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A.D. 1683-1734. The eon of ^ -^ Ts'ai Pi, a noted educationalist of Fahkien. He was for some years private secretary to Chang Po- hsing. In 1709 he graduated as chin ahihy and devoted himself to teaching the youth of his native province. In 1723 the Emperor Tung Cheng summoned him to Peking to be tutor to the young Princes, and he discharged his duties so faithfully as to receive a special memorial notice from the aged Emperor Ch'ien Lung in 1795. He wrote on ethics, compiled biographies, and edited poems, his best known works being the collection of essays entitled Zl collection of which Chu Shih was joint author. Canonised as ^ ^.
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1980 Ts^al Shu Tu ^ ^ ^. 12th cent. B.C. Younger brother of Wu Wang. He joined in the plot to deprive his nephew of the throne, which was crushed by Chou Kung. See Kt£an Shu Hsien.

1981 Ts^ai Shun ^ HH (T. ^ # ). 1st cent. A.D. A native of An- chafing in Honan, famous as one of the 24 examples of filial piety. ' When he was once absent on the hills gathering firewood, his mother happened to want him and bit her finger, upon which he felt a pain in his heart and forthwith hurried home (see Tseng Ts^an), On another occasion, after her death, there was a fire in the village and their house was threatened. Ts*ai Shun flung himself upon his mother's coffin and uttered loud cries to heaven; in consequence of which the fire skipped their house, while all the neighbours' dwellings were burnt to the ground. EUs mother had been very much afraid of thunder, so whenever it thundered he would rush out and weep at her grave, at which the thunder would cease. An official post was offered to him, but he refused it, on the ground that he could not leave his mother's tomb.

1982 Ts^ai Te-chin ^ ^ ^ (T. f^ ^). 18th cent. A.D. A scholar

who devoted his life to the study of the Book of Rites ^ on which he published the H jj^ 2|s: ^, the H ^ 2)!C ||, and the ^

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