2188 Wang Jung ^3^ (T. ^ J+ ). A.D. 235-806. A natiTe of Lin-i in ShAutung, and brother to WaDg Ten. He was a deTer child , and could look at the sun without being dazzled. When onlj seven years old he refused to joiu his companions in eating some plums &om a roadside tree. ^^They must be bitter^" he said scorn- fully, or they would not have been left there." At fifteen he was on terms of friendship with Yilan Chi, although the latter was twenty years his senior, and was ranked with him as one of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove (see Hsiang ffsiu). He roae to be President of the Board of Civil Office, and instituted a system under which the administrative powers of. men were tested before they were actually appointed to office. Later on he got into* trouble and was cashiered, but was re-inatated by the Emperor Hui Ti. He died at a provincial post in Honan. His meanness and parsimony were proverbial. He even caused the stones of a rare species of plum, which "he bad in his orchard, to be bored through before being sent to market for sale, lest some one might try to raise the same kind and so spoil his monopoly. He and Ho Ch'iao being in mourning for their parents at the same time, the latter wept bitterly but still managed to perform all the proper ceremonies, while he himself lay in bed and became reduced to a skeleton. '^Wang Jung," said ^J "f ^ i[^ Liu Chung-hsiung to the Emperor • Wu Ti, '4s the one to be commiserated. Ho Ch'iao's is the filial piety of life; Wang Jung's is the filial piety of death.'* Canonised as TC-
2189 Wang K*ai J *|^ (T. ^ ^ ). 3rd cent. A.D. Brother-in-law to the Emperor Wu Ti of the Chin dynasty. He was a wild young man, and yet he did good service in the field and was ennobled as Duke. He was fond of display, and his rivalry with the powerful Shih Ch'ung ultimately brought him into trouble. He was impeached, and would have sufiered but for the intervention of the Emperor.
