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A Chinese Biographical Dictionary


his sorrow in a poem called "Over the Hoar-frost," until one day his lamentations reached the car of the king who was out hunt- ing with Yin Chi-fu. "That is the lainent of some filial heart," said the monarch; but when Yin Chi-lu sent fo recall his son, the latter had already been changed iuto a goatsucker. There- upon he put thë wife fo death. Two of the Odes are attributed fo his pen.

Ling-i in Honan, who rose under the Emperor T'ai Tsung of the Sung dynasty fo high military command. He inflicted a great defeat on the Kitan Tartars af the Hs? river, and ?as much dreaded by them, being known from his dark complexion .s tho ? ? ? ? Black-faced Prince (sec Wang Tê-yung). In 994, when Li Chi-lung was sent fo punish the wild tribes of Kansuh, he was appointe(l Commander-in-chief in Ho-hsi. Two years later he was recalled fo the capital, but died on the way.

Yin-chi-shan ? $? ? (T. ? ?. H. ? ? ). A.D. 1696-- 1771. A Manchu of the Bordered Yellow Bauner, who graduated as cldn shih in 1723 and held office for one terre as Viceroy of Y?n-Kuei, for three terms as Viceroy of Shen-Kan, and for four terres as Viceroy af Nauking. He effected several important ad- ministrative changes, such as stationing a Taot'ai af Shanghai and the Judge af Soochow in 1729, uniting Kuaugsi under one Viceroyalty with Kuangtung in 1733, and giving Ssfich'uan a separate Viceroy in 1749. His power of work was prodigious, and he was always entrusted with cases which had puzzled all other Ministers. In the Two Kiang, where he spent some thirty years altogether, he was immensely popular, owing in great measure fo his habit of consulting his subordinates on all local questions, and fo his care in judicial matters. From 1764 he was a Grand Secretary, besides holding other high posts. He was ranked by the Emperor Ch'ien Lung