234 A Chinese Biographical Dictionarya proper basis, and is even said to have taught mankind to cook their food.

586 Fu Hsüan (T. ^ ^ ). Died A.D. 278. A scholar and statesman who rose to be Censor and Chamberlain under the Emperor Wu Ti of the Chin dynasty. He was of such an impatient disposition that whene?er he had any memorial or impeachment to submit, he would proceed at once to the palace, no matter at what hour of the day or night, and sit there until audience at the following dawn. It was while thus waiting that he caught the chill of which he died. Canonised as

587 Fu Hung (T. g[ ift). A.D. 284-350. A native of Shensi, and father of Fu Chien. He received his name Hung, "Deluge," in consequence of a persistent fall of rain which gave rise to a popular saying: "If the rain does not stop, the Deluge will come," alluding to a great inundation which happened under the reign of the Emperor Yao. In ^the troublous times of his youth, he spent large sums of money in collecting men and forming a kind of Defence Corps; and when Liu Yao mounted the throne, he at once attached himself to the new monarch. Upon the fall of the latter, he joined Shih Chi-lung; and at his death Fu Hung stibmitted to the House of Chin. By the Emperor Mu Ti he was appointed generalissimo of the north and Viceroy of modern Chihli. He then changed his surname, which had been 1^ P^u, and gave himself the titles "Great General, Great Khan, and Prince of the Three Ch^n." He claimed Imperial rank, and received an unauthorised canonisation as j^ ^ 1^ •

588 Fu Hung-lieh (T. >(i{t ||. H. >f^ ^). Died A.D. 1680. A native of Eiangsi, who gave in his allegiance to the Manchus in 1657 and was employed as a Prefect. For reporting the treasonable designs of Wu San-kuei in 1688 he was

condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to