asking for the grant of a small island near Chusan, and of a
small piece of ground in the neighbourhood of Canton, in order
to establish mercantile residences, which proposals were rejected.
Sung-yün had been specially commissioned to act as escort on the
journey to Peking. No hitch of any 'kind occurred, and he
was commended by Decree. After serving as Resident in Tibet,
Governor General of Shên-Ean and also of the Two Kuang, Director
General of the Yellow River and Governor of Hi, with alternate
periods of honour and degradation, he was finally degraded in 1819,
in consequence of the loss of a seal from the Board of Revenne,
which had taken place under his presidency, to the rank of
lieutenant in a Manchu Banner. In 1820, on the return of the
newly-installed Emperor Tao Kuang from Jehol accompanying his
father's coffin to Pekign, as his Majesty walked along the raised
roadway between thousands of kneeling officials, he suddenly stepped
aside and sobbing aloud raised the head of Sung-yün, whom he
had recognised among the crowd in the humble guise of a Mancha
subaltern. Sung-yün was immediately afterwards appointed Military
Governor of Jehol; and then proceeded to submit to the Emperor
his work on Turkestan , entitled (
Chinese characters), which was published
by Imperial command. Until the year before his death he was
employed in various high posts. Canonised as (Chinese characters)
T.
1844 Ta Chi (Chinese characters) 12th cent. B.C. The beautiful concubine of Choa Hsin, last ruler of the Shang dynasty, captured by him during an expedition against the (Chinese characters) Yu-su tribe. The wild debaucbery and extravagance into which she led her not unwilling master ultimately brought about the ruin of his house, and she is described in popular language as having been the cause of the fall of the Shang dynasty. She was said to have invented the "roasting
