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836 2214 WangPo (T.  H. ). A.D. 1197-1274. A native of Cfaehkiang. He was in youth eager for military fame; hence the sobriquet which he bestowed upon himself, referring to the low whistling of the great martial hero, Ghu-ko Liaug, when he lived aloue in his mountain hut. But finally he settled down to a literary life, and became a prolific writer of commentaries upon the Classics. He was canonised as, and in 1724 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

2215 Wang P'ou (T.  ). 3rd cent. A.D. A man of the Chin dynasty, whose father, Wang I, was beheaded for remonstrating with Ssǔ-ma Ghao and attributing to him a defeat inflicted by the troops of Wu. From that day forth Wang P'ou would never sit facing the west, in token of his withdrawal of allegiance from the House of Chin. He lived in retirement, taking pupils; and used to lean against a pine-tree near the grave to give vent to his grief, until his tears caused the tree to decay. His mother was always very much afraid of thunder; accordingly, after her death, whenever it thundered he would run out to her grave and cry out, "I am near you!" On reading the Ode« he would always weep when he came to the passage, "0 my father and my mother, how toilsome was my birth to you!" His pupils always skipped the Ode, referring to the death of parents, for fear of awakening his grief. He is ranked as one of the twenty-four examples of filial piety.

2216 Wang P'u (T. ). A.D. 922-982. A native of Ping-chou in Chihli, who graduated as chin shih in 948 and was appointed to the Imperial Library. He was a fine scholar and a great collector of books, and rose to be Minister of State under the Emperor Shih Tsung of the Later Chou dynasty. He was subsequently promoted to high office under the first two Emperors of the Sung dynasty, being ennobled in 976 as Duke. He was