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ip^ere to be takAi iuto the Imperial seraglio. (2) The chuang yOan or triennial ^^Senior Wrangler" was never to be a Mancha. (3) The Chinese were to adopt the Manchu dress, qneae etc., for life only, bat were to be allowed to be bnried in Ming costume. (4) Chinese women were not to adopt the Mancha dress nor to cease to compress their feet. The result of this move was the recapture of Peking and the establishment of the present dynasty of Manchu Tartars. Wu San-kuei himself was loaded with honours, and was decorated with a triple-eyed peacock-feather (see Li Hung^chang), In 1653 the Emperor Shun Chih gave his sister, the fourteenth daughter of T^ai Tsung, in marriage to ^ ||| ^ Wu Ting-hsiung, a son of Wu San-kuei. In 1659 he was appointed one of the ^ ^ ^ Three Feudatory Princes, with the titie of ^ ]|§ Pacificator of the West, his rule extending oyer Ytlnnan and Sstlch^uan. After many years of this semi-independent vassalage, during which period he reduced the whole of western China to submission and carried his arms eyen across the Burmese frontier, Wu San-kuei showed signs of an intention to establish a wholly independent sovereignty. In 1674 he threw off his allegiance (see Kan Wen^hun), and at the same time incited to rebellion the other Feudatory Princes in Enangtuug and Fuhkien. His resources however were unequal to the straggle, the issue of which was soon determined, partly by his death in 1678 and partly by the powerful artillery manufactured for the Imperial forces by the Jesuit missionaries, who were then in high favour at Court. The city of Y^Dnan Fu was taken by assault in 1681, and Wu '[tih^H^ Shih-ian, a son of Wu San-kuei, perished by his own hand. His corpse was mutilated and taken to Peking, by Imperial order. The chief adviser of the rebels, ^ ^fe ^ Li Euang-sh6n, was executed, together with many others. Wu San-BSti lit H ^ • Died A.D. 707. Nephew of the Empress 2343 Wu Hon, whose favour he obtained by his quickness in catching