536 A Chinese Biographical Dictionary

was simple and anostentatioos, even going so £ar as to make visits of ceremony on foot, carrying his own cards. He became Assistant Grand Secretary in 1865. Canonised as ^ J^ .

1393 LoTse-nan jH^]^ (T. >|^ 3|||^. H. jJiUj). A.D. 1807-

1856. Of extremely poor family, he remained a mere student nniil the breaking out of the Tai-p^ng rebellion when he was ordered to enrol the local Hnnanese, thns forming the nucleus of the force famons later on as the Brafes of Hnnan. In 1853 he was sent by Ts^ng Kno-fan to Eiangsi. Recalled to Hunan, he subsequently distinguished himself at the taking of Wu*ch^ang and in driving the rebels down to Einkiaug. In 1855 he was fighting in Eiangsi; but on Wu-ch'ang falling again into the hands of the rebels, he hastened to lay siege to it in conjunction with Hu Lin-yi, and was killed by a shot when repelling a sortie. Canonised ms J^ ^ .

1394 Lo Ts'ung-yen JH ^ ^ (T. # ^). A,D. 1072—1135. A native of Fuhkien, who led a studious but aimless life until he was forty years of age, when he became a disciple of Tang Shih. In 1132 he received the honorary degree of chu jetk and a post as Assistant Magistrate. He was the author of the §^ ^f^ ^L ^ f^ , a work designed to show that the disasters of the Sung dynasty were due to the abandonment by the Emperor Sh^n Tsung and his successors of the priociples of their ancestors. In 1614 he was admitted to the Confucian Temple.

1395 Lo Tin j|g ^ CI"- A3 ^)- A.D. 833—909. A natiye of Ch'ien- t'ang in Chehkiang, who distiDguished himself in early youth by his beautiful poems and was patronised by the Minigj^r ^R Ufr Ch^ng Tien. He was however very ugly ; and a daughter of ChSng Tien, who had previoosly been fascinated by his yerses, when once she had seen the author would neyer look at them again. He rose to high office under Ch4en Liu, and his works were published

with the title of JH^ ^ Zu ^- On one occasion he wrote a