2214 WangPo (Chinese characters) (T. (
Chinese characters) H. (
Chinese characters)). A.D. 1197-1274.
A native of Cfaehkiang. He was in youth eager for military fame;
hence the sobriquet (
Chinese characters) which he bestowed upon himself, referring
to the low whistling of the great martial hero, Ghu-ko Liaug, when
he lived aloue in his mountain hut. But finally he settled down to
a literary life, and became a prolific writer of commentaries upon
the Classics. He was canonised as (
Chinese characters), and in 1724 his tablet
was placed in the Confucian Temple.
2215 Wang P'ou (Chinese characters) (T. (
Chinese characters) ). 3rd cent. A.D. A man of the
Chin dynasty, whose father, Wang (
Chinese characters) I, was beheaded for
remonstrating with Ssǔ-ma Ghao and attributing to him a defeat
inflicted by the troops of Wu. From that day forth Wang P'ou
would never sit facing the west, in token of his withdrawal of
allegiance from the House of Chin. He lived in retirement, taking
pupils; and used to lean against a pine-tree near the grave to give
vent to his grief, until his tears caused the tree to decay. His
mother was always very much afraid of thunder; accordingly, after
her death, whenever it thundered he would run out to her grave
and cry out, "I am near you!" On reading the Ode« he would always
weep when he came to the passage, "0 my father and my mother,
how toilsome was my birth to you!" His pupils always skipped the
(
Chinese characters) Ode, referring to the death of parents, for fear of awakening
his grief. He is ranked as one of the twenty-four examples of
filial piety.
2216 Wang P'u (Chinese characters) (T. (
Chinese characters)). A.D. 922-982. A native of
Ping-chou in Chihli, who graduated as chin shih in 948 and was
appointed to the Imperial Library. He was a fine scholar and a
great collector of books, and rose to be Minister of State under
the Emperor Shih Tsung of the Later Chou dynasty. He was
subsequently promoted to high office under the first two Emperors
of the Sung dynasty, being ennobled in 976 as Duke. He was