the expedition into Korea as an artillery commander. Upon tiie submission of the Korean king, he was appointed General of the left division of Chinese Bannermen, and later on became head of a Banner and aided in the conquest of China. In 1655 he was Controller of the Seaboard, and was so good a ruler that the people styled him (his surname meaning *^Stone") ^ ^ the Stone Buddha. Canonised
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Shih Tsung. See (L. Chou) Kuo Jung; (Liao) Yeh-lii YtLan; (Chiu») Wan-yen P'ou; (Ming) Chn Hou-tsung.
Shih Wei-han M H ^ C^- 2i^ W <^"<^ 'W li4 )• ^•^- ^^^^- ^"^^
1683. A native of Shanghai. Graduating as chin shih in 1651, he became a Censor. His pet aversion was ^^squeezing" of any kind; he also inveighed against officials who engaged in trade as pawnbrokers or junk-owners. In 1679 he became Vice President of the Censoratei and constantly urged reforms. So famous was he that the draft of * each of his memorials was eagerly sought for and handed round among the literary classes. Sent as Governor to Shantung, he coped successfully with a serious famine, and in 1682 became Viceroy of Chehkiang. He was transferred to Fuhkien, but died on the journey thither, leaving behind him a ^'fragrant nanle for ever and ever." Canonised as
Shih Yen-nien ;j5 ^ ^ (T. ^ ^). A.D. 994-1041. A scholar 1734
apd poet, distinguished for his wine-bibbing propensities. Though very studious, he failed for his chin shih degree; whereupon the Emperor . Ch^n Tsung added some supplementary degrees and offered him one. At first he was ashamed to accept, but ultimately did so and entered the public service, in which he rose to be Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship. On one . occasion when holding office as magistrate at jf^ Hai-chou in Eiangsu, he went out in a boat to meet his friend and boon-companion ^ ^^ Liu Ch4en. After a long bout of drinking, they found that the supply of wine
