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younger brother who went off to make arrangements for burying the bodies. But by the time he returned the trio had recorered, and were straightway enrolled among the ranks of the Immortals. 3388 Wei Po-yang §% "fj^ ^ • A native of Eiangsn, who flourished as a scholar and writer under the Sung dynasty. He was the author of the ^ ^ ^ ^, a treatise on abstruse points in the Classics, consisting mostly however of forced interpretations calcnlated to promote heterodoxy, and also of the ^ |^ ^ (see 2287).

Wei-shao Wang. See Wan-yen TtLn-chi.

2289 Wei Sheng WLW^ C*"* ^j^)- ^"^^ ^-D- ^l^^- ^ ^^^^^ ^^

^ ^ Su-ch4en in Eiangsn, who was of a military turn of mind and enlisted in the army as an archer. In 1161, while stationed at Shan-yang, he raised a body of some 300 volunteers, and recaptured the city of ]^ Hai-chou which had recently been taken by the Chin^ Tartars. He pacified the inhabitants of the surrounding districts, and by judiciously remitting taxes and releasing prisoners he so &r gained public confidence that ere long he had an army of several thousand men. With these he inflicted a severe dafeat upon the Tartars, for which he was duly rewarded by the Emperor and appointed Governor of Hai-chou. In 1164 he resisted by force a treacherous attempt of the Tartars to pass troops through Ins territory; but his men ran short of arrows, and in the confusion he himself was struck by a hostile shaft and killed. He is said to have been the first general to have used gunpowder in warfiure. His powder however seems to have been nothing more than a kind of Greek fire. Canonised as J^ ^.

2290 Wei-sheng Eao ^ ^'^ or Wei Sheng J^ ^. 6th ceni

B.C. A young man of the Lu State, noted for his fidelity. He agreed to meet a girl under the ^ Lan Bridge at Ch'ang-an, but the girl did not keep her appointment. He continued however to wait for her in spite of the fact that the river was rapidly