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Ho Ch'iao (T. ). Died A.D. 292. An official who rose to high office under the first two Emperors of the Chin dynasty. In his youth he was a ^ery handsome and refined young man, and ^^'^ ^^ TztiHsnng compared him with a tall pine-tree^ which if used in building a mansion would be sure to be taken for the principal beam. He was so fastidious that instead of riding, as was customary, in a carriage with his official colleagues, he insisted on haying a carriage all to himself. Although enormously rich, he was so mean that Tu YH declared he had the "money disease." Canonised as |^ . See Wang Jung.
642 Ho Ch'iao-hsin (T. ). A.D. U27-1502. A native of ff g Euang-ch'aug in Eiangsi, who graduated as chin shih in 1454 and served as secretary in several Boards. In 1480 he became Governor of Shansi, in which post he had to deal with the terrible famine of 1484. In 1487 he was transferred fx} Nanking, where he put down the oppression of the eunuchs. Jilt the banning of 1488 he was recalled to Peking, but was <lriven into retirement three years later on a charge of bribery, ^>f which however he was proved to be guiltless. He was austere ^nd somewhat eccentric, widely read and a bibliophile. Canonised
643 Ho Chih-chang (T. ^ ^ ). Born A.D. 659. He Nourished as a statesman and a poet under the reign of the I3!mperor Ming Huang of the T^ang dynasty, to whom he introduced the youthful poet Li Po. He was one of the Eight immortals of the Wine-cup, and a lover of dissipation and oviality. On one occasion he mounted a horse, although a bad ^der and drunk at the time; the result being that he fell into a <iry well and was found snoring at the bottom. He gave himself iihe sobriquet of ^ ^ 4£ ^ ^^^ Madman of Sstl-ming, from
the name of his ancestral District in Chehkiang. He was also
