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exception to the rule which forbids the transfer of Chinese as opposed to Manchus from high military to high civil rank. Of extraordinary yalour, he was never wounded. In private life he was austere, and to his sons severe, thrashing his eldest for loose liring when the latter was already a Prefect Canonised as J^ ^, and indoded in the Temple of Worthies.

2423 Yang YOn ;^ || (T. ^ ijifj). 1st cent B.C. An official who received high office for having given the first warning of the rebellioiis intrigues of the Ho family (see Ho Kuang). He was however unfitted for public life, and was soon dismissed from his poet. He then took to luxurious living, and made such a display of his wealth that on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun he was denoonced for extravagance and pride, and was put to death as a disorderly character.

2424 Yang Yong-cliien ^H ^ (T. g gg and J^ ^). A.D.

1631 — 1704. A* native of Hangchow, who graduated as chin $hA in 1655 and rose to be Vice President of the Censorate and of the Board of War. After four years* retirement to wait on his aged mother, he was sent to the Yellow River, whence he retired ill from his labours. He was also for a time Governor of Kueichon, where he did much to restore orderly government. He published two collections of memorials, and one of miscellanies,

S425 Yang Yung-po ^ (or ^) H'fg. 2nd cent A.D. A man

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of the £. Han dynasty. Impelled by charitable motiTes he supplied

gruel for nothing to all thirsty travellera who had to cross a steep

mountain near his home. He carried on this practiee for 3 yearii

when one day a stranger who had been drinking gave him a piot

measure foil of cabbage-seed, telling him to plant it in his fidd,

whereby he would obudn some fine jade and a good wife. After

having done this, Yang was desirous of taking to wife a renowned

beauty « whose mother, |^ ^ HsQ Shih, demanded as the price