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and allowed him to put to death all riyals who ventured to croes his path. He wasted large sums upon a new Baddhist temple at Nanking and appointed a priest to the post of Imperial Preceptor. In 1329 new Institutes were issued, and in 1330 the parents of Confucius aud the Sage's chief disciples were ennobled. Aboriginal outbreaks in Hunan and Yunnan gave some trouble, while famines and other national calamities were not infrequent. Canonised as ^ ^.

2111 Tzu Ch^ng -^ ^. A famous physiognomist of old, noted for having pronounced upon the features of Confucius.

2112 Tzu Eu Hsien ^ $iSi fill. The name given to a female deii;, worshipped on the 15th day of the 1st moon as the J^ ^ Goddess of Latrines, and also at other times by young girls, of whom she is the patron. The ceremony of ^^nvitiog the presence" is performed by laying a suit of girls' clothing upon a chair and making obeisance before it, and is occasionally practised at the present day.

Tzu Yob. See Liu Yeh.

2113 Tzti Ying ^^^ Died B.C. 206. A son of Pu Su, who aRer the murder of the Second Emperor at the instigation of the eunuch Chao Eao, was proclaimed by the latter king of Ch4n, thus relinquishing the universal dominion which had been claimed bj his grandfather. Finding out that Chao Eao had only elevated him to the throne as a temporary measure, being all the time in cor- respondence with Liu Pang as to the partition of the Ch4n territory between themselves, h6 seized an early opportunity to have Chao Eao assassinated, and soon afterwards tendered his own submission to Liu Pang. A few days later he was himself murdered by Hsiang Chi.

2114 Tz'ti - an - tuan - yti - k*ang - ch'iug - chao - ho - chuang - ching Huang T'aiHou ^ ^ C lg^ Jt M flS 1^ ^ « M*

j^. A.D. 1835—1881. The Eastern Empress Dowager, actual wife of the Emperor Hsien F^ng. She was associated in the Regency with the stronger-minded Western Empress, but played no real part