a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. In NoTember of the same year he was nominated as Minister to the Coart of St. Junes', and entered upon his duties in May 1897. He speaks English fluently, and is the anthor of a translation into Chinese of Problenu on Nautical Astronomt/ and Navigation j by Jeans, and also of a pamphlet on Indeterminate Equations.
1386 Lo Fa j^ |^. A very beautiful and chaste woman who lifed under the Han dynasty. One day, when she was out picking mulberries, the Prince of Chao, in whose serrice her husband was, began to make advances to her. She at once seized her lute and broke into song, in order to express her feelings.
L387 Lo Jao-tien JH i^ ^ (T. j|^ j^). A.D. 1793-1854. Graduated as chin shih in 1829, and by 1849 was Govemor of Hupeh. In 1852 he was commissioned to inspect the defences of Hunan, and successfully held Ch^ang-sha against the T'ai-pMngs. In 1853 he went as Viceroy to Ytlnnan, where he managed to keep the rebellious Mahomedans mder control. He died while engaged in an attack upon a local rebel , and was canonised as ^ ^^ .
1388 Lo Kuan-Chung ^%^^ 12th cent. A.D. A native of Ch'ien- t^ang in Chehkiang, and a novelist to whose pen the fiunous romance, ^ y^ ^, has been wrongly attributed. See ShihNai-yen.
1389 Lo Knng-yiian |^ ^ 1^ • A magician , who is said to have conducted the Emperor Ming Huang to the palace of the moon. He threw his staff into the air, and it became a dazzling bridge over which the adventurous travellers passed with safety. In the moon the Emperor witnessed a performance of singing and dancing by beautiful maidens, and on his return to earth he organised the famous body of operatic artists known as the ^ ^ -^ j3& Pear- Garden Performers.
1390 Lo Pi |§ )Jg^ (T. ;^ ^). 12th cent. A.D. A native of Lu-ling
in Eiangsi, and a distinguished scholar. Author of the ^ ^^ a
