Page:Elementary Chinese - San Tzu Ching (1900).djvu/177

Rh he had been a novice in a Buddhist temple. He is generally known by the title of his reign as 洪武 Hung Wu.]

Chiu see.

Ch'in see.

Shih see. [He was fighting for some twenty years before he mounted the throne.]

Ch'uan see.

Chien see.

Wên see. [ Chien Wên was the title of the reign of the second Emperor of the Ming dynasty, who was grandson of the first and who came to the throne in A.D. 1399.]

Fang see.

Ssŭ see.

Ssŭ means to sacrifice; hence, probably in reference to the great annual sacrifices, it comes to mean a year. [That is to say, the second Emperor sat on the throne only four years with his capital at Nanking.]

Ch'ien see.

Pei see.