he -at once flung himBelf upon the heast and bj the aaciifiee of hii own life enabled his &ther to escape. 2S15 Yang Hsin ^ Jj^ (T. |ft 7c). Died A.D. 432. A nmtiTe of Nan-ch'^ng in Shantung, who aerred at interrala under the Chin and Song djnasties and rose to be CSovemor of EUn-an. He was remarkable for his skill as a calligraphist; and in the ^jj^ U style he was declared by Sh^n Yo to sorpass eTen Wang Haien-chih.
2376 Yang Hsing-mi ^^^ (J- it M)- "^^^ ^^- ^7. An
official of the Tang dynasty, who for his serriees against the rebd
- fit ^ Pi Shih-to leceiTed in 902 the title of Prince of Wn.
He neyer actually established his independenee, bat was canonised •• JC i& « fini sovereign of the Wn State.
2377 Yang Hsiu ^ # (T. |g fg). 2nd and 3rd cent. AJ>. Grest great grandson of Tang Chte, and a Tery preeodoos boy. On one occasion, when 9 years of age, a gentleman named K^nng (= Peaccd) came to call on his fiither who happened to be oni. Seeing some arbntos-frnit (= Yang) lying on tiie taUe, the visitm' j<ddn^7 remarked, ^I presume that is a member of your fiunily;^ to which the boy at once replied, ^'I ne?er heard Uiat the peaeock was t member of your &mily!*' He subsequently became secretary to the great Ts^ao Ts^ao, who grew suspicious of his talents and cansed him to be pat to death. It was to him Uiat ^>|ft Chang Sung, when sent by ^ ]^ lau Chang to Tb'ao Ts'ao and asked how many men like himself there were in Shu, made his memoraUe reply. Of men like me,'* cried Chang Sung, 'there are cartkadi and peck-measurefiils innumerable!**
SiS Yang Hsiu-Chlng ^ ^ j^. One of tiie leading spirits <rftlie Tai-ping rebellion, to whose military genius much of the early success of the movement was due. Known as the }^ ^E ^— *"^ Prince, he professed to be the mouth-pieee of ^ 52t ^^ ^ Father, and often rebuked Hung Hsiu-ch'ilan and sometimes etea
