succeeded in B.C. 48 as ninth soyereign of the Han dynasty. He was a precocious youth, and when only eight years of age he took upon himself to remonstrate with his father upon the exoessiTe seyerity of punishment in yogue. The latter was far from pleased, and predicted that this son would bring ruin upon the House of Han, — a prediction which was not fulfilled. He was a mild and humane ruler, fond of history, and skilled in seyeral musical instruments. Canonised as :^ yf^ ^ ^ ,
Liu Shih |^ ^ • 7th cent. A.D. The wife of an official named 1361 ^^ ^ Jen Huan. Upon the Emperor T'ai Tsung presenting her husband with two pretty concubines, she cut o£F their hair and made them bald. The Emperor then sent a potion which he commanded her to drink, and which he said would cause instant death if she was jealous; adding that if she was not jealous she need not drink it. Without hesitation she drank it o£F, saying that death would be preferable to such a life; and the Emperor was BO much struck by her heroism iand deyotion that he adyised Jen Huan to remoye the young ladies from his house. Liu Shou-knang ^ ^ ^l^ . Died A.D. 912. Son of Liu Jen- 1352 kung. He debauched his father's fayourite concubine; and when punished for this, he seized his father and kept him in confinement, subsequently defeating and killing his elder brother who had come to the rescue. In 911 he threw o£F his allegiance to the Liang dynasty, and proclaimed himself Emperor of the Great Ten State. In the following year Chou T6-wei was sent against him, and succeeded in taking his capital. He fled with two of his wives, but lost his way and was captured and slain. His father was seized by Chou Td-wei , and was shortly afterwards beheaded. Liu Shu ^ ^ (T. MM)' ^'^' 1052-1078. The son of an 1353 official who was too inflexibly upright for public life, and who
retired to seclusion on a mountain in Sstlch^uan, where he ended
