A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fan Chih
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532 Fan Chih 范質 (T. 文素). Died A.D. 954. A native of 宗城 Tsung-ch'êng in Chihli, who graduated as chin shih in 933. At his final examination he was placed thirteenth on the list, "in order," as 和凝 Ho Ning the Grand Examiner told him, "that you may hand down my robe and bowl (q.d. follow in my footsteps), though you really ought to have been higher." Ho Ning himself had been thirteenth, and rose to be a Minister of State, a dignity which was subsequently attained by Fan Chih.