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when Wang Chi was impeached he retired into private life and amused himself by keeping poultry and growing millet, from the latter of which he produced an ardent spirit. He visited the Tnng- kao mountain, and wrote a book in which he dubbed himself j^ ^ -^ the Philosopher of Tung-kao. Under the T'angs he became Probationer in the Han-lin College, but drunkenness once more brought about his fall. He was also known as ^ ^ ^ ^t ^^^ as 3l -^ ^ ^ > froDi his great capacity for liquor. He foretold his own death, and wrote his own epitaph, in which he alluded to his fondness for wine and his consequent loss of ofQce. Author of many beautiful poems, and of a short skit entitled ^ ^ §Q Note on Drunk^land,

Wang Chi ^ "0^ . A scholar of the Sung dynasty, to whom is 2144 ascribed the first application oi feng shui to housebuilding (see Kuo P^o), The theory of the interaction of the five elements has also been credited to him.

Wang Chi £ ]^. 11th cent. A.D. A native of |g T'ung-chou 2145 in Chihli, who wrote some famous verses on "God is going to use Confucius as a bell to rouse mankind,*' which gained for him the sobriquet of 3E ?K ^ •

WangCh'i 3^3^ (T. #3£)- Htli cent. A.D. A native of 2146 Ch*Sng-tu in Sstich'uan, who graduated as chin shih and was appointed Archivist at Chiang-tu in Eiangsu. There he distinguished himself by a memorial to the Emperor on State affairs, and was taken into favour. And shortly afterwards, when at a banquet his Majesty called upon the high o£Bcials for a poem, Wang Ch4's verses were the only ones which received the Imperial approval. Sent as envoy to the Kitan Tartars, he returned home invalided; the Emperor however fancied he was shamming, and dismissed him to a provincial post. He ultimately rose to be Vice President of the Board of Bites. Is chiefly known as a poet.