and well acquainted with the Chinese people. In 1034 he invaded Chinese territory, and having seized all the country west of the Yellow River, he attacked 蘭 Lan-chou Fu. In 1038 he proclaimed himself independent as Emperor of Hsia. In 1041, after three years' successful warfare, he offered peace, and in 1042 he was formally recognised as King of Hsia. He was killed by a son whose wife he had appropriated. For nearly two hundred years after his death the State he had founded continued to exist, always more or less in antagonism to the Imperial House, until at length it was finally overthrown by the Mongols in 1227.
196 Chao Yün 趙雲 (T. 子龍). Died A.D. 229. One of the heroes of the wars of the Three Kingdoms, distinguished by his unusual stature and great personal beauty. He was a champion of the cause of Liu Pei, whose son (see Liu Ch'an) he is said to have saved twice, - once in the rout at 長阪坡 Ch'ang-fan-p'o, and again when 孫夫人 Lady Sun, the wife of Liu Pei, was about to take him into Wu. It was on the first occasion that Liu Pei is said to have cried out “Tzŭ-lung's whole body is one mass of courage!" In a subsequent engagement he was less successful, and was dismissed to an inferior command; yet he was highly honoured in the Kingdom of Shu, and at his death he was posthumously ennobled as Marquis.
197 Chao Yün 朝雲. The accomplished and beautiful mistress of the poet Su Tung-p'o. She accompanied her lover on his banishment to Hui-chou in Kuangtung, and there died, with these words from the Diamond Sûtra upon her lips: - "Like a dream, like a vision, like a bubble, like a shadow, like dew, like lightning." A tablet to her memory still stands upon the shores of the Western Lake.
198 Chao Yün 朝雲. A waiting-woman in the family of a man named 王琛 Wang Shen, skilled in playing on the flute. The
