school. He also wrote on the Six Scripts, and on the (
Chinese characters) of
Liu Chên. So conseryatiye was he in all matters relating to
antiquarian usage, that even in private life he only used the seal
character!
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Chiang Shih (Chinese characters). 1st cent. A.D. One of the 24 examples
of filial piety, in the practice of which virtue he was rivalled by
his wife. The latter, because her mother-in-law preferred river
water, used to trudge several miles every day to fetch it. An
effort was also made to provide the old lady with minced fish, of
which she was very fond; the upshot of all which was that one
morning a spring, with a flavour precisely like that of river
water, burst forth near their dwelling, and daily threw out on the
bank two fine fresh carp. The Red-Eyebrow Rebel, Fan Ch'ung,
was so impressed with their filial conduct that he bade his soldiers
spare their village, and even sent them food during a dearth,
which Chiang Shih however buried in the ground. In A.D. 60,
there was an Imperial levy of men of filial piety; and Chiang
Shih received a Magistracy, at which post he died.
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Chiang Shih (Chinese characters) (T. (Chinese characters) ). 5th and 6th cent. A.D. An
official under the Northern Wei dynasty. Author of the (Chinese characters), a lexicon based upon the Shuo Wên. He was an accomplished master of the seal character, and wrote the
inscriptions for the palace gates at Lo-yang.
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Chiang Shih-ch'üan (Chinese characters) (T. (Chinese characters) and H. (Chinese characters)) A.D. 1725—1784. A distinguished literary official of Kiangsi,
whose mother began to teach him philosophy and instruct him in
the T'ang poets when he was only four years of age. Besides
holding literary and educational posts at the capital and in the
provinces, he became Vice President of the Censorate. In 1781 he
was sent at his own request to set in order the Imperial Library
