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LtL Shang. See T'ai Kung.

Lti Ta-Un g :^ {jg (T. H ^). 11th cent. A.D. He studied 1466 with Yang Shih, Hsieh Liang-tso, and ;^ g^ Tn Tso, under the great Ch'tog I, the four students being coUectiYely known as the ^ ^^' H® acquired a profound knowledge of the Classics ^ especially of the Book of Rites; and about 1090 he received the honorary title of Great Scholar, and was appointed to the Imperial Library. He died however shortly afterwards, and in 1895 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

Ltl Tsu-oh'ien g M il(T. 'ffi 1^ • H. Jt ^ )• A.D. 1137- 1467 1181. A native of ;|^ ;^ Euei-lin Fn in Euangsi. He graduated as chin ahih^ and entering upon an o£Bcial career rose to be a Historiographer; but in 1178 he was compelled by ill-health to retire. Distinguished more as a scholar than as an o£Scial, he was the author of the 3 <^ ^ ^ ^ ^ fB * ^ well-known work on the Odea; also of the ^ ^ ^ l^i & collection of historical documents of the Sung dynasty down to the year 1127; of the ^ ^ gg, consisting of historical criticisms; of a commentary on the Canon of Changes ^ etc. etc. He was a contemporary and fellow- labourer with Chu EDii, one of whose great works, the ^^ 1^, owed its publication to his influence and advice. He was canonised as j^, and in 1261 his tablet was placed in the Con- fucian Temple.

Lil Tsuan S ^ (T. ^ ^). Died A.D. 401. A son of Lfl 1468 Enang, who assassinated the rightful heir ^ Shao, and usurped the throne of the Later Liang^. He gave himself up to wine and women until he was himself assassinated while drunk by a cousin. Iill Tuan g j§^ (T. ^ it). 10th cent. A.D. A native of ^ 1469 3^ An-tz*1i in modern Chihli, who was a trusted Minister under the Emperor T*ai Tsung of the Sung dynasty. At the death of that monarch, the eunuch ^ i^ j^ Wang Chi-to made an

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