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25M Ytlan Hsteh :^ $ (T. ^ :ft . H. ^ If^). ? A.D. 1150-1220. A natiTe of the Yid District in GhebkUng. As a child he wu qoiet and sedate, and wonld gaze all day into a basn of water placed near him by his wet-nnne. At nij^t he woald lie awake for honn. He gradoated as cAin thih, and entered Dpon an official career as Magistrate at ^ ^ Ohiang-yin in Eiangsn. He altiaiately roee to be Vice President of the Board of Bites; bat got inia trouble by opposing the peace-policy of Sbih Hi-yfian, and retired into private life. He was the aaHwr of the % ^ |S ^ ^1 ^> an ex^etical work on the Oda, and of a ctdleetion of miscellaneoai writings. He was canonised aa j£ B^, and in 1868 his tablet w« placed in the Coofiician Temple.

3517 Ytian HBien Jg ^ (T. ^ ^). Born B.C. 516. A natJTs of the Sung State, and one of the disciples of Confiicias, under whom he held office in the Ln State. Upon the death of the Master hs went into retirement and lived like a hermit, amonng himself with stcdy and playing upon the gnitar. On one occasion his fa/ma colleague, Toau-ma Tz'tl, came with a chariot and four faoisM to call. Tflan Haien went to receive him, wearing a mnlberry-bftA hat, leaning on a thorn staff, out at elbow, and in an old psb of shoes; bo that Tnan-mu cried ontj "What is the matter? Are yon ill?" "To have no money is to be poor," replied Tflan; "to learn what is right and not to do it, that is to be ill. 1 am poor, not ill." Whereupon Tnan-mn retired in confufflOD.

3648 Yüan Hslon ^ J^ (T. #^). 3rd cent. A.D. Nephew of Yüan Chi, and also one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Gron } ) (see ffsiang 3nu). In his yoath he was a vrild harum-scarum fellow, nobody knowing what wonld be his next escapade. He and bii uocle, both poverty-stricken, lived on one side of the road, while a wealthier branch of the family lived on the other aide. On the I ' 7** of the 7th moon the latter put out all their grand fur robes