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618 Han Hsiu . 8th cent. A.D. A statesman who joined Chang Ghia-ling in his remonstrances addressed to the Emperor Ming Haang of the T'ang dynasty. His Majesty is said to have lost flesh in consequence; bat when his courtiers suggested that the Ministers were to blame, he replied, Though I may be thin, the empire is fat.*' He was a Minister of State in 788, and died about 740, aged 67. Canonised as ^j^.

619 Han Hung (T. ^^). 8th cent. A.D. A natire of Nan-yang in Honan, who graduated as chin shih about A.D. 750 and distinguished himself as a poet and official under the T'ang dynasty, earning the sobriquet of ^ ^ >J* -^ Genius of the Ta-li period, A.D. 766—780. There happened to be another official of the same name; and when this one was recommended for promotion, the Emperor Td Tsung asked which of the two was intendeds It is Han Hung, the poet,*' replied the Minister on duty. See Chang-t^ai Liu,

620 Han Lin-êrh . Died A.D. 1867. A natiye of ^ ^ 620 ChSn-ting in Chihli, whose father was executed for connection with the White Lily Society, while he himself escaped to Ying- chou in Anhui, and sought refuge with ^ ^ ^ Liu Fu-t'ung, a notorious wizard of that place. In 1351 Liu broke into open rebellion, a red kerchief being the distinguishing mark of his followers who soon numbered over 100,000. In 1855 Liu set up Han Lin-toh as >J> 59 ^ > with Po-chou in Anhui as the capital of a new Sung dynasty, which wad recognised by Chu Yilan-chang and by Kuo Tztl-hsing's son. The new ruler had soon to flee to ^ ^ An-fSng in Anhui, where he remained until Liu captured Pien-liang (the modern K'ai-ffing Fu) in 1858. A

year later he was forced to return to An-f§ng, where he was