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T'ang dynasty and took up his abode at ;|^ f^ TzH-t'nng in SstLch'nan. He was very handsome, and a brilliant writer. He became Superintendent of Education, and succeeded so well that he received an appointment in the Board of Bites, but declined the o£Sce and disappeared.

2302 Wen ChSng-ming ^^ ^ (T. ^#. H. ^ \U). A.D.

1470—1559. A native of Ch^ang-chou in Eiangsu. As a boy he was dull-witted, but his intellect developed rapidly as he approached manhood. He studied composition under ^^ Wu K'nan, calli- graphy under ^||| jpl Li Ying-ch£ng, and painting under Sh(n Chou. He ultimately rose to be a member of the Han-lin College, and was employed upon the annals of the reign of the Emperor Wu Tsung, 1506—1522. He retired comparatively early from public ' life, and died at the great age of 90, leaving a family of eight sods.

Wen Ch'eng Ti. See Toba Chtln.

2308 Wen Ch'iao 2& llH (T. :AC ^ ). A.D. 288-329. A native of T^ai-ytian in Shand, distinguished in early youth by his skill in literary composition and by his filial piety. His uncle by marriage, who was a general, sent him on a mission to the capital, the present Nanking, where he attracted* the notice of the leading statesmen. Afbor serving with success against Shih Lo, leaving part of his sloovo in the hand of his mother who tried to stop him, he aided in the establishment of the £. Chin dynasty 'and stood in high favour with the Emperor Tflan Ti. In A.D. 318 he was attached to the tutorial staflF of the Heir Apparent. In 322 he boldly forbade his pupil to take the field against Wang Tun, himself exposing later on the treasonable designs of the latter and defeating the rebel attack on Nanking in 324, for which he was ennobled as Duke. On the Emperor's death he was appointed one of the Regents, and in 326 he was Governor of Chiang-chou in Hupeh, with headquarters at Wu-ch*ang. Two years later, in conjunction with T*ao K*an, he drove Su Chtln from Nanking, which he had