2397 Yang of Lu, Duke ^ ^ ^. A personage mentioned byHiud Nan Tztl. Being engaged in a bloody battle with the army of the Han^ State, and fearing lest evening should elose in and interfere with his victory, he raised his spear and shook it at the declining sun, which straightway went backwards in the sky to the extent of three zodiacal signs. [A similar story is told of one j^ ^0
2398 Yang Lung-yen i^ J^ ^^. Died A.D. 920. Brother to Tang Wn, and his successor in 908 as third sofereign of* the Wn State, the territories of which he increased by the annexation of Kiangsi.
2399 Yang Ming-shih ^ ^ 1^ (T. i[ ff and ^ ^). A.D. 1660—1736. A natife of Eiangsu, who graduated as chin ekih in 1691 and rose by 1726 to be Viceroy of Yiin-Kuei. In 1728 be was impeached and sentenced to death, but was pardoned lest the people, who loved him, should rebeL At the end of his life he was recaUed to Peking as tutor to the Imperial Princes. He wrote on the Canon of Changes and on the Odes. Canonised as ^j^i and included in the Temple of Worthies.
2400 Yang Pao;^ ^ . 1st cent B.C. and A.D. Father of Yang Chte. He lived in retirement and occupied himself with teaching, asd when in A.D. 7 he was summoned to take office he fled away and hid himself. Later on, the Emperor Euang Wu would gladly have made use of his services. He died however of old age before he could start for the post to which he had been appointed. He wai a man of an eminently humane disposition. On one occasion be rescued a wounded bird which was attacked by ants, ittd after nursing it to recovery allowed it to fly away. The same evening the Urd returned, and taking the form of a youth in ydlow garments , presented him with four jade bracelets, saying, ^Take care of tkese; they will cause four generations of your descendants to be pare and spotless as themselves.** This prophecy was fulfilled in the
