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Yang Hsuan-kan ^ :^ JK. Died A.D. 613. Son of Yang Sn. 2381 He was one of the first to revolt against the Emperor Yang Ti, bnt his attempt at insurrection was quickly suppressed and he perished witii the defeat of his forces.

Yang Hu m J^. 6th cent. B.C. Charioteer to ^ ;g Chi Huan, 2382 the chief of one of the three leading families in the Lu State. In 505 he rebelled against his master, and for some time held him prisoner. Confucius refused to see him; but they afterwards met accidentally, and Confucius was persuaded by him to take office. He failed in his ambitious designs and was ultimately compelled to flee to the Chin State.

Yang Hn ^ Ijgf (T. ;|t -^ ). Died A.D. 278. A natiye of Nan- 2388 chafing in Shantung, grandson of Ts'ai Yung and twin brother to the Empress Consort of the founder of the Chin dynasty. At the age of fi?e he bade his wet-nurse go and fetch a bracelet from the mulberry-orchard of a neighbouring Mrs. Li. ^That bracelet,'* cried Mrs. Li, ^'was lost by my dead son!*' From which it was inferred that Yang had been her son in a prefious birth. He rose to high office, first of all under Sstl-ma Chao, and afterwards under Ssti-ma Yen. When on a great campaign against the Wu kingdom, he used to go about with a loose girdle and dressed in light furs, attended by only a ?ery small body-guard; hence he received the sobriquet of the ^ ^ ^ ^ Gentlemanly General. For his immense services he was ennobled as Marquis, and when he died all the shops were closed and the sounds of lamentation were heard in the neighbouriog kingdom of Wu. The people of Ching-chou put up a memorial stone on Mt. |l|^ Hsien, at the sight of which so many persons wept that Tu Ya called it the H ]^ ^ Tablet of Tears. Yang Hui-chili ^^:t (T. # iJc)- A.D. 921-1000. A 2384

native of P'u-ch^^ng in Shensi, who graduated as chin shih in 958 and rose under the first two Emperors of the Sung dynasty to the