130 A Chinese Biographical Dictionaryafterwards a plot was laid to secure vengeance. A Magistrate,

named ^ j^ ^ Ghdng Hu-ch*£n , whose family he had injured , was sent after him, and he was slain at a temple near Chang- chou in Fuhkien. Another account says that he anticipated his fate hy taking poison.

327 Chia Tao (T. 5|[lll). A.D. 777—841. A natire of Fan*yang in Ghihli. He began life as a Buddhist priest under the style ^ 2|£ Wu P6n, and proceeded to Lo-yang, where the Gk)7ernor had forbidden priests to be seen after noon. He was noted for his love of poetry* which he would compose while walking through the streets. One day, riding along on a donkey, he was considering whether ^'push'* or '^knock*' would be more suitable in the following yerse: Mf ^ f^^^i f& Ife (<>' Wi^ ^ ~|\ P^ ; and he was ^'pushing*' and ^'knocking" in the air with his hands, when he ran up against the great Han Tfl, then Governor of the Metropolitan District. The latter, on learning what was the matter, at once declared for knock"; and forthwith taking the priest under his protection, caused him to quit religious life, and enter upon an official career. He failed repeatedly, however, to take his chin shih degree. Under the Emperor W6n Tsung, A.D. 827—841, he was banished to tL Ch'ang-chiang in Sstich'uan for indulging in kmpoons; but shortly before his death he was restored to favour and appointed to posts which he never took up. He used to write some poetry every day without fail; and at the end of each year he put all these poems together and sacrificed to them with meat and wine, in order, as he said, to repair the loss they had caused to his mental powers.

328 Chia Yü (T. )- 10th cent. A.D. Magistrate at f|I| ^^ Hsien-yu in Fuhkien under the first Emperor of the

Later T'ang dynasty, noted for his probity. On handing over his