A.D. He painted two dragons without eyes on the walls of the 安樂死 Temple of Peace and Joy at Nanking, warning people that if the eyes were put in, the dragons would fly away. A sceptic ventured to paint in the eyes of one dragon, when suddenly the wall crashed to ruins and the dragon soared aloft in the sky.
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Chang Shang-ying 張商英 (T. 天覺). Died A.D. 1121. Younger brother of Chang T'ang-ying, by whom he was taught in his youth. He rose to high office under the Emperors Chê Tsung and Hui Tsung, and was for a time associated with Ts'ai Ching in the administration. His career was a chequered one, and on several occasions he was dismissed to petty provincial posts. He edited and wrote a preface to the 素書, a short and shallow ethico-political treatise supposed to have been given to Chang Liang by the mysterious old man whose shoe fell over the bridge, and to have been discovered in Chang Liang's tomb at the beginning of the 4th cent. A.D. It is, however, generally admitted that this treatise was written by Chang Shang-ying himself. Canonised as 文忠.
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Chang Shao 張邵 (T. 元伯) A man of the Han dynasty, famous for his friendship with one 范式 Fan Shih. On one occasion, they arranged to meet again on a certain day, after an interval of two years; and Chang insisted on his mother cooking a fowl in readiness for his friend, who arrived at the appointed time. When Chang died, he appeared in a dream to Fan, who at once set off to be present at his obsequies. The funeral, however, had already been planned to take place before his arrival; but when the procession came to start, it was found that the coffin was immovable. And so it remained, until Fan rode up on a white horse, dressed in mourning clothes.
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