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Rh for his literary ability and rivalled such contemporaries as, (a distant relative), and. In 1765, when Emperor Kao-tsung made his fourth tour of South China, Chao Huai-yü presented a long poem written in honor of the emperor. Fifteen years later (1780) when the emperor again made a tour of the South, a special examination was given in which Chao Huai-yü successfully participated, becoming a chü-jên and an expectant secretary in the Grand Secretariat. While he was in Peking he served about three years (1782–84) on the editorial staff of the Ssŭ-k'u ch'üan-shu (see under ). As this work progressed he made a copy of the Ssŭ-k'u ch'üan-shu chien-ming mu-lu (see under ), which he took with him on his return to the South. This was printed at Hangchow in 1784 with the help of Pao Shih-kung (see under ) and Chin Tê-yü 金德與, and was the first printing of the so-called Chien-ming mu-lu.

In 1794 Chao Huai-yü was made a secretary of the Grand Secretariat. Four times (1784, 1793, 1795, 1796) he competed in the metropolitan examinations, but did not succeed in qualifying as a chin-shih. In 1800 he received appointment as sub-prefect of Ch'ing-chou, Shantung. In 1802 he served as acting prefect of Têng-chou and later of Yen-chou (both in Shantung). When his father, Chao Shêng-nan 趙繩男, died he resigned from office to observe the customary mourning and never thereafter resumed official life. In 1805 he was invited to Shanghai by Li T'ing-ching 李廷敬, intendant of the Su-Sung-T'ai Circuit, to assist in compiling a work to be entitled 宋遼史詳節 Sung Liao shih hsiang-chieh. In the following year (1806) he went to Yang-chou to participate in the compilation of the Yang-chou t'u-ching (see under ). From 1807 to 1812 he was head of the Academy known as Wên-chêng Shu-yüan 文正書院 in Shih-chiang-chên, T'ung-chou, Kiangsu. Accepting an invitation to direct the Kuan-chung Shu-yüan (關中書院) in Sian, Shensi, he arrived at Sian early in the summer of 1812. A month later he was stricken with paralysis of the left side of his body and never wholly recovered from its effects. He returned home early in 1815 and later lectured for a time in the Ai-shan Shu-yüan 愛山書院 in Hu-chou, Chekiang.

The collected literary works of Chao Huai-yü were printed under the title, 亦有生齋集 I-yu-shêng chai chi, which comprises 39 chüan of verse (2 of yüeh-fu 樂府, 5 of tz'ŭ 詞, and 32 of shih 詩), and 20 chüan of prose. His own preface is dated 1819, and the collection was probably printed about that time. The 2 chüan of yüeh-fu are poems about notable persons and events in his native prefecture from ancient times to the end of the Ming period. It was reprinted in 1886–87 under the title Yün-hsi (雲溪) yüeh-fu, 2 chüan, in the 粟香室叢書 Su-hsiang shih ts'ung-shu, compiled by Chin Wu-hsiang 金武祥 , of Chiang-yin Kiangsu. Chao Huai-yü painted in his younger days and achieved some fame as a calligrapher.

[2/72/54a; 3/257/24a; 20/4/xx(portrait); 26/2/54a;, Lü-t'ing chih-chien ch'üan-pên shu-mu 6/11a; T'oung Pao 1924, p. 212; 趙收庵年譜 Chao Shou-an nien-p'u (not consulted).]

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 CHAO-hui 兆惠 ( 和甫) 1708–1764, Dec. 10, general and Grand Secretary, was a member of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner. As a grand-nephew of Empress, he was a second cousin of Emperor Kao-tsung. He entered official life as a clerk (筆帖式), and in 1731 began to work in the Grand Secretariat as a secretary. Later he was appointed to a sub-chancellorship in the same office and, after serving two years (1742–44) in Mukden as vice-president of the Board of War, was recalled to Peking. There he was made junior vice-president of the Board of Punishments, a post he held until 1750, serving concurrently as deputy lieutenant-general of his banner (1745) and captain-general of the Bordered Red Banner in the Guards (1746). In 1748 he was sent to Szechwan as quartermaster in the army which was then fighting the Chin-ch'uan aborigines (see under ), and returned to Peking with the victorious army in the following year. In 1750 he served concurrently as captain-general of his own banner in the Guards and later in the year was promoted to the senior vice-presidency of the Board of Revenue. In 1753 he was sent to Tibet to inspect the defenses against a possible invasion by the Eleuths. There he found the small Chinese garrison well prepared, the native troops trained, and the lamas loyal. When the Eleuth general,, surrendered in 1754 he persuaded Emperor Kao-tsung to take advantage of unrest among the Eleuths to 72