| 254. | 南 | 北 | 混 | and then the north and the south were reunited. | |
| Nan2 | pei3 | hun4 | |||
| South | north | blend |
Nan see line 61.
Pei see line 61.
Hun is composed of 水 shui water as radical, and 昆 k'un together, an elder brother, as phonetic. It means to mix; hence confused, etc. [The Sung dynasty was interrupted in A.D. 1127 by the 金 Chin Tartars, who had been called in to exterminate the 遼 Liao Tartars, carrying off the Emperor and his heir and occupying the northern portion of the empire. Another son of the unfortunate monarch succeeded in re-establishing the line, and for greater security transferred his capital southwards to modern Hangchow. Hence the first period was called the Northern, the latter the Southern, Sung; and it is to the final reunion of the two under the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in A.D. 1260 that this line refers, although the last representative of the Sungs lived on until 1279. Eitel makes a grave mistake in regard to hun, as follows:—"Though a southern Sung dynasty branched off from the northern (A.D. 1127) when the disorders commenced."]
| 255. | 十 | 七 | 史 | The Seventeen Dynastic Histories | |
| Shih2 | ch'i1 | shih3 | |||
| Ten | seven | history |
Shih see line 45.
Ch'i see line 84.
Shih see line 176. [The above number includes all the dynastic histories down to and inclusive of the History of the Five Dynasties. See Appendices III, IV, V, and VI, where the numbers of the dynasties are 22, 21, 21, and 19, respectively.]
