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the T^ai-pHng rebellion he was .at Nanking and enrolled himself as a volunteer, rising to the rank of snb-Prefect. He perished at the capture of Lu-chou. When all was lost, with a sword in one hand and a goblet of wine in the other, he awaited the rebels; and then rushing upon them with a wild cry succeeded in killing several of them before he himself was cut down. He wrote notes on several of the Classics, also essays, and a collection of poems. TSOU Yen i^ t^. 4th cent. B.C. A native of the Ch'i State, 2030 who took office under Prince ^ Chao of the Yen State. He is said to have so improved the climate of a certain cold valley that millet grew readily there ever afterwards. He wrote on cosmogony and the five elements, and was very fond of discussing astronomical problems; hence his sobriquet of ^ (or ^) ^ ^Jj. Prince Chao treated him with great consideration, and built for him a palace of granite; but his successor, Prince ^ Hui, listening to envious slanderers, dismissed him from office and put him in prison. At this, Tsou looked up to heaven and wept; whereupon, although it was midsummer, snow fell in large quantities. Tsou Yi-kuei ^ — i^ (T. Jg jg . H. y^ [1| ). A.D. 1G80- 2081 1766. A native of Wu-hsi in Eiangsu, who graduated as chin shih in 1727 and rose to be a Censor. Famous as an artist, he was also the author of a collection of essays, entitled y)^ ^J ^ ^ . Tsu Jung JB§. ^ (T. 7C 3^ ). 6th cent. A.D. A native of Fan- 2032 yang in Chihli, who was so precocious that at eight years of age he knew both the Odes and the Canon of History by heart, and people called him the ^ /J^ ^ Little Prophet. In 528, when the Board of Music was burnt down by the doldiery and everything destroyed, he was appointed to superintend the construction of a new set of instruments, a task which was completed within three years. He was then raised to high office and ennobled as Earl. Tbu T*i jJB. ^ (T.- ± ff ). 3rd and 4th cent. A.D. A native 2033