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876 breast bore four nipples. In B.C. 1144 he was denounced by ^ Hu, the Marquis of ^ Chiang, to the Emperor Choa Hsin, ss dangerous to the throne; and he was seized and thrown into prison at ^ ^ Yu-li in modern Honan. There he passed two years, occupying himself upon the Canon of Changes. At length the Emperor, yielding to the entreaties of the people, backed up by the present of a beautiful concubine and some fine horses, set him at liberty and commissioned him to make war upon the frontier tribes. To his dying day be never ceased to remonstrate against the cruelty and corruption of the age, and his name is still regarded as one of the most glorious in the annals of the empire. 2309 Wen Yen-po ^ ^ 1# (T. % ^). A.D. 1006—1097. A

nati?e of -^ ^ Chieh-hsin in Eiangsi, who graduated as chin sUk and entered the public serrice. A clerer boy, he is said on one occasion when he had dropped his ball into a well to have raised the level of the water by throwing in a number of stones. He first distinguished himself by the energy with which he crushed the rebellion of ^ ^ Wang Ts£, after which he was rapidly promoted and ultimately became Minister of State, a position which he filled, with some temporary checks (see T^ang CAtVA), for a period of fifty years. He was on terms of intimacy with all the leading men of his time, and formed a kind of club in which age took precedence over rank, and to which all the notabilities of Lo-yang were eager to belong. He was ennobled as Duke, and canonised as Jj^ ^. 3310 Weng Chong-ja ^ # f| (or m ). A native of >g Wei-choo in Eansuh and a poor scholar under the T^ang dynasty, who was suddenly enriched by a rainfall of gold.

asil Weng Hsin-tslm §i /(^^ (T. zltf. H. ^^). A.D.

1793~1S62. A native of 'j^ ^ Ch'ang-ahou in Eiangsu, who graduatevl as chin shih in 1822 and filled various literary and educational posts. In 1837 he was appointed tutor to the six sods