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visitors in and escort them to the door; besides, a little deafness is rather an advantage." He was ennobled as Marqnis, and canonised as ^.

866 Huang Shih Kung A legendary l^eing, known as Mr. Yellow-Stone, said to have been the patron of Chang Liang, and also to have written the ^ 9^ , a work on military tactics,


867 Huang Shu-lin (T. ^ g).A.D. 1 672- 1756. Graduated as third chin shih in 1691. Rose to be Vice President of a Board, and for a time was Governor of Chehkiang, and Judge and Treasurer of Shantung. A diligent student of the Classics and history, he was generally regarded as the foremost scholar of his day. He was the author of commentaries on the Canon of Changes and on the Odes; also, of a critical exegesis of the ^ iCl^ 191^ ]li ^^^ ^/ ^^^ by Liu Hsieh , etc. Popularly known as :((^ ^ ^ ^ ^ .


868 Huang Tao-Chên A fisherman of ]^ |^ Wu-ling in Hunan, who lived under the Chin dynasty. Some time between A.D. 280—290 he is said to have discovered a creek, hidden by peach-trees, which led to an unknown region inhabited by the descendants of fugitives from the troublous times of the Ch4n dynasty. There they lived.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

After being kindly treated at their hands, the fisherman returned home; but he was never again able to find the entrance of that creek.


869 Huang Tao-chou (T. j^ ^. H. ;g ^). A.D. 1585—1646. A native of ^ 7^ Chang-p*u in Fuhkien, who graduated as chin shih in 1623 and entered upon official life. After a highly chequered career, in which he was constantly being punished by degradation and banishment for boldness of speech, he raised a force and made a supreme effort to recover for the

Mings the empire which had passed to the Tartars. In a battle