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eunuchs, kept him in office until 1493, when he was denounced for wrongful selection of officials and rebuked for love of notoriety. He is said to haTe habitually eaten enough for two men, even up to his death, which came upon him as he was sitting alone in his chair. He, ^ |@ P^^ng Shao, and Ho Ch4ao-hsin, are known as the ^^ Three Old Men. Canonised as J^^- Wang Su ^ ^ (T. -^ |g ). Died A.D. 256. Son of Wang 2227 Lang. He rose to high office under the Wei dynasty and was distinguished* as a profound scholar. Besides editing his father's work on the Canon of Changes, he wrote and published many volumes of classical commentaries. He is also said to have found the text of the ^ -^ ^ ^ Family Sayings of Confucius in the house of a descendant of the Sage, and to have published it in A.D. 240; but the generally received opinion among scholars is that he wrote the work himself. Canonised as WangSn ^^ (T. |^^). A.D. 464-501. A native of lin-i 2228 in Shantung, whose father was Chamberlain under Ebiao Ts£, second Emperor of the Southern Ch'i dynasty, and was put to death in 491. He fled to the Northern Wei Court, and the Emperor Hsiao W£n Ti, compassionating his misfortune and finding him to be a man of parts, appointed him to a high military command, in which capacity he did good service, finally taking alive Hsiao I, elder brother of Hsiao Ts6, and ^^ j^ Li Shu-hsien, and causing them to be executed. For these services he was ennobled as Marquis and advanced to be Governor of Yang-chou. He is noted for his love for koumiss, of which, he told the Emperor, tea is only fit to be the slave. Canonised as ^ ^.

Wang-sun Chia ^ -^ ^. A uative of the Ch'i State, who 2229 served with Prince y'^ Min on his campaign against ^^ "^ Nao Ch4h of the Ch*u State. When the Prince was lost, he returned home; but his mother said, **If you went out in the morning and