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defined as to rebel and seize, which sense is fairly deducible from the component parts.


219. Then Kuang Wu arose,
Kuang1 wu3 hsing1
Kuang wu rise


Kuang see line 51.

Wu see line 189.

Hsing see line 215. [Kuang Wu is the dynastic title of a descendant of Kao Tsu (line 215) in the ninth degree, who destroyed Wang Mang the Usurper and placed himself upon the throne in A.D. 25. Here again Eitel wrongly renders hsing by victorious.]


220. and founded the Eastern Han dynasty.
Wei2 tung1 han4
Make east han


Wei see line 24.

Tung see line 62.

Han see line 214. [Under the former dynasty, now known as 西漢 hsi han the Western Han or as the 前漢 ch'ien han Earlier Han, the capital was at 長安 Ch'ang-an in Shensi. It was moved eastward to 洛陽 Lo-yang in Honan by Kuang Wu; hence the term Eastern. This dynasty is also known as 後漢 hou han the Later Han, a name subsequently bestowed upon one of the Five Dynasties mentioned in lines 247250.]


221. It lasted four hundred years,
Ssŭ4 pai3 nien2
Four hundred year


Ssŭ see title.

Pai see line 46.

Nien was originally written with 禾 ho grain as radical above