A Chinese Biographical Dictionary 233a Grand Secretary in 1748. In that year he was sent to put an

end to the campaign against Chin-ch^uan, which had been incompetently condacted. He enticed the chief rebels to his camp and execated them, and by ?igorons attacks forced the rest to sobmit early in the following year. For his services he was ennobled as Dake, and on his return to Peking was received with extraordinary honours. In 1763 the Emperor Ch4en Lung publicly acknowledged the valuable aid he had given in the prosecution of the Sungar war. Four years later he obtained leave to carry on the Burmese war, hitherto mismanaged; and reaching Moulmein in May 1769, he contrived to build a flotilla, crossed the Lankan river, and after some fighting laid siege to Kauntong, whereupon the Burmese consented to pay tribute, fie died on his way to Peking and was buried with princely honours, Ch4en Lung paying a personal visit of condolence to the family. He is specially mentioned Jn the poem by Ch4en Lung entitled ^ A Retrospect. Canonised as ^ J^ t ^^^ included in the Temple of Worthies.

585 Fu Hsi . B.C. 2953-2838. The first of the Fi?e Emperors of the legendary period, also known as ^ ^ ^ and ^ ^ . He is said to ha?e been miraculously conceived by his mother, who after a gestation of twelve years gave birth to him at Ch*6ng-chi in Shensi. He taught his people to hunt, to fish, and to keep flocks. He showed them how to split the wood of the ^ t^ung tree, and then how to twist silk threads and stretch them across so as to form rude musical instruments. From the markings on the back of a tortoise he is said to have constructed the Eight Diagrams, or series of lines from which was developed a whole system of philosophy, embodied later on in the mysterious work known as the Canon of Changes. He also

invented some kind of calendar, placed the marriage contract upon